Unstructured TechnologiesUT

Principal Software Engineer

Unstructured.io is a company that specializes in transforming unstructured data from various formats into LLM-ready data, enabling enterprises to leverage their internal data for AI applications.

Unstructured Technologies

Employee count: 51-200

United States only
Unstructured builds open-source and commercial tools that enable developers to preprocess and transform unstructured data — PDFs, HTML, Word docs, images, and more — for AI/ML pipelines. Our solutions power production-grade, scalable generative AI use cases at leading enterprises.We’re a team of builders obsessed with performance, simplicity, and reliability. If you’re excited by complex systems, cutting-edge ML infrastructure, and high-impact problems, we’d love to meet you.
We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer to lead and influence the technology direction for our organization. As a key player, you will own organization-level architecture and product solutions, mentoring our engineering teams while solving complex software problems. You will be instrumental in aligning teams toward coherent, scalable designs and mitigating long-term risks.

Key Responsibilities:

Architectural Leadership: Own and drive the architecture and design of key product solutions across the organization. Influence and set the technology direction, ensuring alignment with business goals.
Strategic Influence: Lead strategically important projects that involve multiple teams. Provide technical direction and mentorship, fostering a culture of high-quality software development.
Complex Problem Solving: Address significantly complex, persistent, or ingrained software challenges. Develop innovative solutions that impact the entire organization and set new standards of excellence.
Software Development: Actively engage in the full software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and operations. Deliver high-quality, production-ready code that is both strategic and tactical.
Mentorship Collaboration: Provide mentorship and guidance to engineers across the organization. Act as a force multiplier, enhancing the capabilities of the teams you influence.
Cross-Team Alignment: Align teams toward simple, coherent designs that meet business and technical objectives. Resolve escalations and proactively mitigate risks, particularly those involving long-term one-way doors.
Organizational Impact: Shape how the organization operates by influencing software offerings and architectures. Ensure that your work has a lasting impact on both current and future projects.
Experience: 10+ years of software development experience, with a proven track record of leading and delivering complex, high-impact projects.
Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, and development best practices. Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks.
Leadership: Demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and drive cross-team initiatives. Experience in mentoring and developing technical talent.
Problem Solving: Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to tackle complex, persistent issues.
Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Adaptability: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where business problems and architectural strategies may not yet be defined.

Preferred Qualifications:

Proficiency with Python
Experience in leading large-scale, multi-team projects.
Expertise in cloud-based architectures and services.
Background in mentoring and growing engineering teams.

Why Join Us?

Impactful Work: Play a key role in shaping the future of our organization and its products.
Innovation: Work on challenging problems that require innovative solutions.
Growth: Opportunities to grow your career in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
Collaboration: Join a team that values collaboration, mentorship, and continuous learning.

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Unstructured addresses a significant challenge many enterprises face: leveraging their vast amounts of unstructured data for use with large language models (LLMs) and other AI applications. Customers often struggle with data in various formats like PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, HTML files, images, and more, which are not readily usable by machine learning models. This is where Unstructured steps in, providing solutions to automate the preprocessing of this messy, human-generated data. Our platform transforms raw data into clean, structured formats, making it compatible with LLMs for tasks such as fine-tuning, pre-training, and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).

Our customers need to unlock the potential of their internal data to enhance productivity, drive innovation, and gain actionable intelligence. Unstructured offers open-source libraries and commercial API products designed to simplify and accelerate this data transformation process. We enable organizations to connect their enterprise data, regardless of file type or layout, to LLMs efficiently. This means data scientists and engineers no longer need to spend the majority of their time on the laborious task of data preprocessing, which traditionally involves building custom, brittle pipelines for each data type. By providing robust tools for data ingestion, partitioning, cleaning, and staging, Unstructured empowers businesses to build powerful AI applications based on their own specific, high-quality data, rather than relying solely on generic, pre-trained models. This allows for more accurate, relevant, and secure AI-driven insights and workflows.

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