At Skillsoft, we propel organizations and people to grow together through transformative learning experiences. We believe every team member has the potential to be AMAZING. Join us in our quest to transform learning and help individuals unleash their edge.

Are you ready to shape the future of learning through cutting-edge AI? As a Principal AI/Machine Learning Engineer at Skillsoft, you’ll dive into the heart of innovation, crafting intelligent systems that empower millions worldwide. From designing generative AI solutions to pioneering agentic workflows, you’ll collaborate with internal and external teams to transform knowledge into a catalyst for growth—unleashing your edge while helping others do the same. Join us in redefining eLearning for the world’s leading organizations! 

Responsibilities: 

Hands-on Principal AI/ML engineer, driving technical innovation  

Partner with product owners to define visionary AI features  

Collaborate cross-functionally to assess impacts of new AI capabilities  

Consult and guide teams to productize prototypes with provable accuracy  

Lead research and selection of COTS and development of in-house AI/ML technologies  

Evaluate foundational models and emerging AI advancements  

Explore new technologies and design patterns through impactful prototypes  

Present research and insights to inspire innovation across teams  

Guide, design and testing of agentic workflows and prompt engineering 

Fine-tune models, validate efficacy with metrics, and ensure reliability  

Evaluate and guide synthetic data generation for training and validation  

Design and guide scalable data pipelines for AI/ML training and inference  

Oversee data analysis, curation, and preprocessing  

Collaborate with external partners on AI development and integration  

Establish AI design best practices and standards for alignment 

Contribute to patentable AI innovations 

Utilize and apply generative AI to increase productivity for yourself and the organization 

Environment, Tools & Technologies: 

Agile/Scrum 

Operating Systems – Mac, Linux 

JavaScript, Node.js, Python 

PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, OpenAI, Anthropic, and friends 

Langchain, Langgraph, etc. 

APIs GraphQL, REST 

Docker, Kubernetes 

Amazon Web Services (AWS), MS Azure 

Sagemaker, NIMS 

SQL: Postgres RDS 

NoSQL: Cassandra, Elasticsearch (VectorDb) 

Messaging – Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS 

Monitoring – Prometheus, ELK 

GitHub, IDE (your choice) 

Skills & Qualifications:  

8+ Years of Relevant Industry Experience (with a Master’s Degree Preferred) 

Experience with LLMs and fine-tuning foundation models 

Development experience including unit testing 

Design and documentation experience of new APIs, data models, service interactions 

Familiarity with and ability to explain: 

Agentic AI development and testing 

AI security and data privacy concerns 

Synthetic data generation and concerns 

Foundation model fine-tuning 

Generative AI prompt engineering and challenges 

Attributes for Success: 

Proactive, Independent, Adaptable 

Collaborative team player 

Customer service minded with an ownership mindset 

Excellent analytic and communication skills 

Ability and desire to coach and mentor other developers 

Passionate, curious, open to new ideas, and ability to research and learn new technologies 

Skillsoft delivers online learning, training, and talent solutions to help organizations unleash their edge. Leveraging immersive, engaging content, Skillsoft enables organizations to unlock the potential in their best assets – their people – and build teams with the skills they need for success. Empowering 36 million learners and counting, Skillsoft democratizes learning through an intelligent learning experience and a customized, learner-centric approach to skills development with resources for Leadership Development, Business Skills, Technology & Development, Digital Transformation, and Compliance.

Skillsoft is partner to thousands of leading global organizations, including many Fortune 500 companies. The company features three award-winning systems that support learning, performance and success: Skillsoft learning content, the Percipio intelligent learning experience platform, which offers measurable impact across the entire employee lifecycle. Learn more at www.skillsoft.com.

Thank you for taking the time to learn more about us. 
If this opportunity intrigues you, we would love for you to apply!

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