Principal Software Engineer, AI & Data Platform (Xora Portfolio Company)

Xora Innovation is a company that builds secure AI infrastructure for scientific and engineering R&D teams. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own the data and AI engineering foundation, ensuring systems are reliable, scalable, and measurable while defining core patterns for data modeling and training pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Architect the data foundation for large scale scientific and engineering output, keeping results clean, queryable, reusable, and ready for model training
• Model domain specific scientific data so the same datasets can support interactive analysis, automation, and downstream machine learning workflows
• Build scalable data processing patterns across object storage, analytical stores, and training optimized formats
• Create machine learning data pipelines for curation, deduplication, formatting, evaluation sets, and regression tracking
• Build and operate training and fine tuning pipelines for models used in scientific and workflow driven products
• Develop intelligent workflow interfaces that connect user intent, structured platform capabilities and executable workflows without exposing unnecessary complexity to users
• Own model evaluation, benchmarking, automated scoring, and quality tracking so each iteration is measurable
• Set data and AI engineering standards for the team and turn them into code, documentation, and reusable patterns