Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI

Astronomer
New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 168,000 - 230,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Empathy","Creativity","Collaboration","Communication","Experimentation"]

Design and build a global context layer for data that powers search, discovery, code generation, and automated root cause analysis. You’ll shape intelligent AI systems for data engineering, engineer components for data modeling, semantic search, and retrieval, and experiment with LLMs, embeddings, and advanced information retrieval. Work closely with R&D and product in a small team to turn applied AI research into scalable developer tools at global scale.

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Astronomer
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Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI

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Job Summary

Design and build a global context layer for data that powers search, discovery, code generation, and automated root cause analysis. You’ll shape intelligent AI systems for data engineering, engineer components for data modeling, semantic search, and retrieval, and experiment with LLMs, embeddings, and advanced information retrieval. Work closely with R&D and product in a small team to turn applied AI research into scalable developer tools at global scale.
Location: New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build the foundation and applications around Astronomer’s data context layer.
  • •Engineer components powering data modeling, semantic search, retrieval, and code generation.
  • •Experiment with LLMs, embeddings, and retrieval techniques to create developer tools delivering insights.
  • •Collaborate with R&D and product teams to bring early AI concepts into the product experience.
  • •Influence the technical vision and architecture for the next generation of AI-driven data products.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 168,000 - 230,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Experience with LLMs, vector databases, embeddings, or applied AI—or strong desire to dive in.
  • •Creative, experimental mindset with comfort exploring new areas, validating hypotheses, and iterating.
  • •Strong collaboration and communication skills, including explaining complex systems to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • •Empathy for users and a deep interest in improving workflows for data professionals.
  • •Familiarity with early-stage product development and comfort working with ambiguity in a fast-changing field.
Experience:Open sourceData engineeringApplied AI
Skills:EmpathyCreativityCollaborationCommunicationExperimentation
Tech Stack:Apache AirflowLLMsVector databasesEmbeddingsPythonSQL

Company Brief

Astronomer
Develops Astro, a unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow to build, run, and monitor data pipelines at scale, helping enterprises operationalize analytics and production AI.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2018
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