Senior AI-Driven Software Engineer (Remote-Eligible)

Morningstar; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 137,985 - 168,648; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k match

Sabbatical program

Family leave

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Volunteer programs

Job summary

Morningstar is seeking a software engineer to architect and optimize Python-based applications and APIs, using FastAPI/Flask and RESTful services. You will work with PostgreSQL and vector databases like Weaviate and Pinecone, applying dataframes for data processing and AI-driven insights.

The role emphasizes AI governance, scalable architecture, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to align AI initiatives with business needs, adhering to cloud-native practices.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or foreign equivalent with 5+ years of relevant experience, or a master's degree with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Proficiency in database engineering with RDBMS (SQL Server, PostgreSQL), design, normalization, optimization, migrations, ACID transactions.
• Strong Python development, API design, data processing with Pandas and visualization libs; OOP, UML, and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Architect, optimize and develop Python apps and APIs (FastAPI/Flask) and RESTful services.
• Work with relational and vector databases (PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Weaviate, Pinecone) and dataframes for analysis.
• Drive AI security, governance, and ethical AI practices and guardrails.
• Architect, research and review AI-driven enterprise platforms (RAG, LLM tuning, model optimization).
• Define and review documentation, set architectural guidelines, enforce coding best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align AI strategy with business needs and technical requirements.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

Flask

REST APIs

Asynchronous programming

AWS

S3

Aurora

RDS

API Gateway

Lambda

PostgreSQL

SQLAlchemy

Weaviate

Pinecone

Pandas

Plotly

Matplotlib

NLP

Embeddings

Git

CI/CD

QlikView

Celery

SQS

Redis

GraphQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Weaviate

Pinecone

QlikView

Git

Celery

SQS

Redis

GraphQL

Job description

Morningstar is seeking a software engineer to architect and optimize Python-based applications and APIs, using FastAPI/Flask and RESTful services. You will work with PostgreSQL and vector databases like Weaviate and Pinecone, applying dataframes for data processing and AI-driven insights.

The role emphasizes AI governance, scalable architecture, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to align AI initiatives with business needs, adhering to cloud-native practices.