Principal Software Engineer (IFS Technology – Applied AI)

Company Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

The Next Generation Architecture (NGA) team at R&D Technology is spearheading a transformative initiative to revolutionize our industry-leading enterprise software solutions with industrial AI at its core. We're embarking on an ambitious journey to reimagine the architecture, developer experience and user experience of our entire software suite based on modern application development paradigms leveraging native AI technologies. This strategic transformation will deliver exceptional value to our customers while setting new standards for enterprise software innovation. We're seeking an experienced applied AI software engineer to be part of the core engineering team.

As Principal Software Engineer - Applied AI you will:

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of AI experiences
• Implement platforms for secure and guard-railed AI agents, including autonomous AI agents
• Know how to leverage AI tools in coding, design, QA to achieve a high level of productivity
• Demonstrate a deep passion for modern enterprise software architecture, developer experience and emerging technology paradigms
• Closely follow the AI technology space and actively pursue AI opportunities
• Implement automated testing for AI agents in CI/CD pipelines
• Implement monitoring, cost- and resource-optimization related to AI agents and services.
• Be always curious and a continuous learner
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to software engineering teams.
• Have an open mind and courageous to question technical decisions

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience leveraging large language models (LLMs) into products using frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex.
• Understanding of AI agent design including relevant standards and initiatives like MCP, A2A.
• Solid understanding of embedding models, semantic search, RAG pipelines and vector databases.
• Experience in prompt security, guard-railing and response validations.
• Experience with computer vision/image recognition and similar 
• Experience designing APIs and backend systems to serve AI models.
• Familiarity with self-hosted LLM:s and platforms
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and asynchronous communication patterns
• Experience with CI/CD, test automation and secure development practices
• Familiarity with container technologies and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• User of AI Coding assistants such as Github Copilot, Cursor etc.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and leadership abilities.

Additional Information

Interviews and selections are being made continuously. If you are interested, apply as soon as possible.

As a step in our recruitment process, all final candidates will undergo a background check, to get us an understanding of our future employees.

We respectfully decline all offers of recruitment and/or advertising assistance.

We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community, we drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best, while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.