Software Transformation Developer (AI Code Modernization)

BENTLEY SYSTEMS, INC.; Quebec; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering software company is seeking a Software Transformation Developer specializing in AI Code Modernization. You will play a pivotal role in a new innovative team dedicated to using AI to convert and modernize legacy code into cloud-native applications. The position requires a strong interest in AI, proficiency in both legacy and modern programming languages, along with a commitment to continuous improvement in AI workflows. Join a diverse global team and make an impact in enhancing infrastructure solutions.

Benefits

Attractive salary and benefits package

Commitment to inclusion and wellbeing

Qualifications

• Experience with AI workflows, especially automated code conversion.
• Ability to create rigorous test suites for code validation.
• Understand old and new code patterns to facilitate comparisons.

Responsibilities

• Develop tools to support AI workflows.
• Research for continuous improvement of AI automation.
• Evaluate conversion quality for complex code.

Skills

Strong interest in AI for coding

Strong problem-solving capabilities

Good knowledge of legacy and new languages

Familiarity with numerical precision

Capability to research new topics

Experience breaking down complex systems

Proficiency in cloud technologies

Experience building LLM pipelines

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Azure

GCP

Job description

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Software Transformation Developer (AI Code Modernization)

Software Transformation Developer (AI Code Modernization Platform)

Bentley Systems is seeking a talented AISystems ModernizationDeveloper to become a valued member of a dedicated AI expert team.This global team’s main responsibilities are to innovate the use of AI techniques, including multi-stage agentic workflows, to automatically convert and upscale academic or legacy code into cloud native services and apps. The team will collaborate with, support, and guide other software developers in the company around AI topics.

Note that this team is starting this year, so the first team members will have a strong influence on the direction of the team. Given that this is a new domain, the team will be in a leadership position to contribute to, evangelize, and operationalize this vision for the company. The team will also run programs in support of best practices across the company. This position should appeal to candidates who enjoy bleeding-edge technology, deep technical discussions, and who want to be exposed to a variety of tech stacks. Bentley has hundreds of products of various types, including desktop, mobile, traditional server, and cloud microservices. Moreover, the candidate will have the opportunity to work as part of a diverse global team of experts.

Responsibilities:

• Develop tools and automation supporting the team’s responsibilities
• Create rigorous and hardened test suites to ensure that converted code is accurate
• Continuous research and continuous improvement to our AI workflows to ensure we are always using the best AI tools and processes to do automated code conversion and modernization
• Manual evaluation of the quality of the conversion of code for the difficult-to-analyze portion of the code
• A key part of the team’s role is to avoid this as much as possible
• Establish the limits of what we can and cannot do with various technologies
• Continuously monitor and adjust the tradeoffs between speeds, cost and quality of conversion
• Train developers and/or create educational support

Required Qualifications:

• Strong interest in AI for coding
• Strong problem-solving capabilities
• Good knowledge of at least some legacy (e.g., C, Fortran) and some new languages (e.g., Rust, .NET, and Typescript) to be able to compare converted code
• At least understand old and new usual code patterns
• Familiarity with numerical precision across language runtimes
• Capability to research a new topic and learn quickly
• Experience breaking down complex systems to analyze them
• Proficiency in cloud technologies
• Experience building LLM pipelines

Optional Skills and Experiences:

• Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
• Web technologies
• Azure and GCP
• AppSec and Cloud Security
• Containerization solutions, such as Kubernetes, Docker, and Istio.
• Compiler Theory
• AST-level code analysis and manipulation

An exciting career as an integral part of a world-leading software company providing solutions for architecture, engineering, and construction - watch this short documentary about how we got our start.

An attractive salary and benefits package.

A commitment to inclusion, belonging and colleague wellbeing through global initiatives and resource groups.

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About Bentley Systems

Around the world, infrastructure professionals rely on software from Bentley Systems to help them design, build, and operate better and more resilient infrastructure for transportation, water, energy, cities, and more. Founded in 1984 by engineers for engineers, Bentley is the partner of choice for engineering firms and owner-operators worldwide, with software that spans engineering disciplines, industry sectors, and all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle. Through our digital twin solutions, we help infrastructure professionals unlock the value of their data to transform project delivery and asset performance. www.bentley.com

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Bentley is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers for employment all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, religion/belief, national origin, caste, age, or any other characteristic protected by local law or unrelated to job qualifications.