Software Developer (Emerging Careers)

SAS is a leader in data and AI, inspiring customers to transform data into intelligence. They are seeking a Software Developer (Emerging Careers) specialized in Generative AI to join their engineering team, focusing on building and scaling enterprise-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate on the ingestion, processing, and management of vectorized customer document data to optimize retrieval accuracy, latency, and agentic integrations
• Maintain accountability for the entire lifecycle of the code, from translation of product requirements into actionable features, to rigorous testing (functional, unit, and performance), code reviews, and post-deployment support
• Design, develop, and maintain autonomous agent architectures and RAG pipelines using LangChain to interface seamlessly with SAS VIYA offerings
• Integrate rigorous LLM defensive frameworks and operational Guardrails to ensure safe, compliant, and deterministic model behaviors across enterprise data
• Build and execute systematic validation frameworks to quantify LLM performance, tracking key metrics (such as context recall, faithfulness, and answer relevance) to ensure the highest output quality