Senior Software Engineer - AI Automation & Data Platforms

Nbcuniversal; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NBCUniversal is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer, Automation Engineering, to develop AI-powered automation and production-grade Python services for the Data Collaboration Group.

You'll design internal AI agents, build reusable tooling, and implement retrieval-augmented workflows with LangChain and related frameworks. This fully remote role offers exposure to Snowflake, Databricks, and advanced data platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in CS, IS, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience building production-grade software using Python, including libraries, services, testing, CI/CD, and code reviews
• Hands-on experience building applications using LLMs, RAG, vector databases, prompt engineering, or LangChain/LangGraph/LlamaIndex
• Experience designing AI-enabled workflows and complex automation systems
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks
• Strong production system design, observability, reliability, scalability, performance, and ops support

Responsibilities

• Design and build internal AI agents and automation workflows using Snowflake Cortex, LangChain, LangGraph, or similar frameworks.
• Develop reusable tools, APIs, and components for agentic workflows.
• Implement retrieval-augmented generation workflows, context management strategies, and prompt patterns.
• Build evaluation harnesses, regression tests, and monitoring patterns for AI-agent behavior.
• Define and track metrics such as task completion, groundedness, response accuracy, latency, cost, and failure rate.
• Design guardrails and validation patterns to reduce hallucinations, unsafe outputs, and unreliable automation behavior.
• Partner with engineering and operations teams to move AI workflows from prototype to production-ready systems.
• Design, build, and maintain production-grade Python applications, libraries, and services.
• Champion object-oriented design principles, modular design, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and documentation.
• Create reusable engineering patterns that reduce bespoke development effort and improve consistency across partner engagements.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, operations, and data platform teams to translate repeatable business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Build reusable Python libraries for first-party audience workflows and measurement use cases, including onboarding, indexing, activation, delivery analysis, attribution, and incrementality.
• Abstract complex analytical workflows into repeatable, self-service components for internal teams and external partners.
• Enable configurable feature deployment so new capabilities can be delivered quickly across partners.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical design discussions, and operational best practices.
• Establish engineering standards for AI-assisted workflows, agentic system design, reusable libraries, and production automation.

Skills

Python

LLMs

LangChain

LangGraph

AI Agents

Snowflake

Databricks

CI/CD

APIs

Testing

Education

Bachelor's degree

CS / related field

Tools

Snowflake

LangChain

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

Databricks

Job description

NBCUniversal is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer, Automation Engineering, to develop AI-powered automation and production-grade Python services for the Data Collaboration Group.

You'll design internal AI agents, build reusable tooling, and implement retrieval-augmented workflows with LangChain and related frameworks. This fully remote role offers exposure to Snowflake, Databricks, and advanced data platforms.