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ServiceNow · 2 weeks ago

Staff AI Engineer: Foundational AI Services

ServiceNow is a global market leader in AI-enhanced technology, transforming how organizations work. They are seeking a Staff AI Engineer to architect and scale their core AI intelligence layer, focusing on building foundational services that empower product teams to deploy production-grade GenAI.

Agentic AIBusiness Process Automation (BPA)Cloud ManagementEnterprise SoftwareRobotic Process Automation (RPA)SaaS
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Responsibilities

LLM Fine-Tuning & Distillation: Lead domain-specific model optimization using PEFT (LoRA/QLoRA) and knowledge distillation to balance cost, latency, and reasoning capability
Architect Foundational RAG: Build next-gen Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines using hybrid search, cross-encoders, and self-correcting retrieval loops
Agentic Orchestration: Design and deploy multi-agent systems using frameworks like LangGraph or CrewAI, enabling autonomous task planning and tool-use (Function Calling)
Enterprise-Grade Evaluation: Build "LLM-as-a-judge" frameworks and robust eval pipelines to measure hallucination rates, groundedness, and safety
Inference Optimization: Implement high-throughput, low-latency serving strategies including quantization, speculative decoding, and prompt caching

Qualification

TransformersVector databasesPython/RustMLOps toolsAPI designDistributed systemsConcurrencyChain-of-ThoughtSemantic Caching

Required

Typically requires 8+ years of overall software engineering experience
Core AI: Expert-level mastery of Transformers, attention mechanisms, and the latest frontier models (GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, Llama 3)
The Stack: Deep experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus), orchestration layers (LangChain, LlamaIndex), and MLOps tools
Software Craft: You are a Staff-level coder in Python/Rust who understands distributed systems, concurrency, and API design
Modern Buzz: You live and breathe Chain-of-Thought (CoT), DSPy, GraphRAG, and Semantic Caching

Company

ServiceNow

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ServiceNow is an AI platform that delivers IT operations, field service management and app engine solutions.

H1B Sponsorship

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2025 (910)
2024 (876)
2023 (807)
2022 (840)
2021 (447)
2020 (439)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$83.7M
Key Investors
Sequoia CapitalJMI Equity
2022-12-09Post Ipo Equity
2012-07-29IPO
2012-03-20Private Equity· $10.98M

Leadership Team

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Bill McDermott
Chairman and CEO
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Pat Casey
Chief Technology Officer & EVP of DevOps
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