Principal AI Code Review Engineer, Copilot (Remote)

GitHub, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 425,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Generous learning opportunities

Excellent benefits

Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own Copilot code review and related workflows. You’ll be hands-on, solving hard technical problems, and mentoring senior engineers while shaping how reviews occur across VS Code, the Copilot app, and the Copilot CLI.

You’ll drive frontier AI models at scale, partner with research, and define metrics to ensure robust, production-grade reviews for developers at GitHub and beyond.

Qualifications

• 11+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
• OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 9+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
• OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
• OR equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive how the review agent works: the context it reasons over, the models it runs, and what it carries across reviews.
• Bet on where model capability is heading, and work with model labs and research teams to turn it into better reviews.
• Define what a great AI review is, and hold the product to it with offline evals, online experiments, and production evidence.
• Own the quality of the end-to-end review experience across VS Code, the GitHub Copilot app, and the GitHub Copilot CLI, and pull requests.
• Own the reliability of a high-throughput service running at GitHub scale, including the on-call rotation.
• Mentor senior and staff engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and help steer the team and product, all while staying hands-on: experimenting, shipping code, and building evals.
• Work at the frontier of how software gets built with agents and evolve workflows that make the whole team faster.

Skills

Software engineering

C/C++/Java/Go/Python

Large-scale systems

On-call / production

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related

Master's degree in CS/related

Doctorate in CS/related

Associate degree +10+ years

Tools

VS Code

GitHub Copilot

Job description

GitHub is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own Copilot code review and related workflows. You’ll be hands-on, solving hard technical problems, and mentoring senior engineers while shaping how reviews occur across VS Code, the Copilot app, and the Copilot CLI.

You’ll drive frontier AI models at scale, partner with research, and define metrics to ensure robust, production-grade reviews for developers at GitHub and beyond.