Senior Software Engineer, AI Research

See yourself at Dataminr As a Senior AI Engineer at Dataminr, you’ll work alongside Research Scientists and Data Scientists to train, adapt, and deploy state-of-the-art LLMs and agents across Predictive, Generative, and Agentic AI. You’ll tackle multimodal data, including text, images, video, audio, and sensor data, on a platform that processes billions of inputs every day, helping organizations act on critical events as they unfold. Expect plenty of room to keep growing in both AI and software engineering. This is a hybrid role with two in-office days each week in our New York City or Arlington, VA office. AI Innovation at Dataminr Working at Dataminr you’ll have the opportunity to tackle the most exciting trends in AI on a daily basis to power a revolutionary product that uncovers critical events around the world as they unfold. Regenerative AI : our AI technology, ReGenAI, is a new form of generative AI that automatically regenerates real-time Live Event Briefs as events unfold. Learn more here . Agentic AI : we recently launched our Agentic AI capability, what we’re calling our Intel Agents, that autonomously generates critical context for our clients on real-time events, threats, and risks allowing them to see the clearest, most accurate view of what’s happening on the ground. Learn more here Multimodal AI: our platform detects events from many different types of data (images, video, sensor data, audio, and text in over 150 languages). Learn more here . The opportunity Work with groups of Research Scientists, Engineers, and Data Scientists in the AI Platform organization and beyond, to deploy, build, adapt, optimize, and deploy LLM models in production at very large scale. Own the technical design and implementation of robust API services, libraries, and container strategies that define and support our end-to-end LLMOps lifecycle. Optimize DL/LLM training and inference performance (speed/cost) on specialized hardware. Drive the full lifecycle of complex AI problems: from initial research and literature review to hands-on data exploration, implementation of novel, in-house methods, and successful productization. What you bring At Dataminr, we value you for who you are. We encourage you to apply for this role, even if you don’t meet every qualification. Our candidates are reviewed on the basis of their skill and potential to succeed. M.S. in Computer science or equivalent experience 5+ years of experience as a Research or Machine Learning Engineer. MLOps/LLMOps Experience: building, optimizing, deploying and operating Deep Learning models using PyTorch, including Transformers and LLMs, not just using APIs. Experience working with Research Scientists, reading technical research papers, and implementing state-of-the-art methods in Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Knowledge Representation and Management, Vector Databases and Generative AI. Expertise in Python. Experience with Containers, Kubernetes, AWS, Databricks, and Agentic infra such as LangGraph, LangFuse, and vector stores #LI-BM #LI-Hybrid About Dataminr At Dataminr, we are a mission driven team of talented builders, creators and visionaries who have real-world impact on how organizations are able to respond to events. Dataminr’s groundbreaking, AI-powered, intelligence platform provides organizations with the earliest signals of emerging risks, events, and threats before they unfold. Trusted by two-thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100, Dataminr’s platform analyzes billions of public data inputs spanning text, image, video, audio and sensor data across 150+ languages, empowering our clients to stay one step ahead in an increasingly complex world where every second counts. Founded in 2009, we have pioneered the world’s first real-time event detection platform, long before the recent Gen AI ‘boom.’ Dataminr operates all around the world united by our passion to use AI for the greater good, be agents of positive change and put our technology into the hands of clients charged with the responsibility to keep organizations running and keep people safe. As our employees focus on developing our revolutionary technology, we focus on our employees. Dataminr is proud to offer a variety of flexible work arrangements, offices all over the world to foster collaboration, generous PTO and sick leave, and more, as part of our competitive benefits package aimed at keeping all our employees happy and healthy. Explore all our benefits here . We believe our differences give us strength. Our employees are empowered to be their best, authentic selves through various opportunities, such as our robust employee resource group (ERG) network, manager development programming, professional development funds, and more. We serve a global community made up of many cultures and strive to reflect the world and clients we serve, with a workforce built on merit and equity. We actively condemn racism and discrimination in any form. We stand for social good, fostering a culture of allyship, and standing up for those who face systemic barriers to equality. We lead with empathy and strive to be agents of positive change in our company and in our communities. The annual base salary range for this position is $154,800 - $227,500. You will also be eligible to receive a discretionary bonus and Company equity. Actual salary will be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, applicant skills, and prior relevant experience. 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