Software Engineer, AI - 100% Remote
About the Company
Clari + Salesloft are building a Predictive Revenue System that combines AI, revenue insights, and real-time signals to help enterprise teams make informed decisions and drive consistent growth. Their platforms serve thousands of customers and provide insights into how revenue is generated, supporting the development of AI-powered tools for modern revenue teams.
About the Role
Clari + Salesloft is seeking a Principal Software Engineer, AI to lead the design and development of its AI Context Layer. This platform provides AI agents with high-quality, governed context about customers and their revenue processes through knowledge graphs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and search infrastructure. In this role, you will own the platform's technical direction, establish its roadmap, and work closely with feature teams, data engineering, and other engineering leaders. You will drive architecture decisions, develop scalable developer interfaces, and establish standards for data access, security, governance, and retrieval quality. The position requires strong technical leadership and the ability to connect platform domains while delivering reliable, secure, and effective AI infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
Embed with feature teams to understand their context-layer requirements, including data needs, quality standards, and delivery formats, and use those insights to guide the platform roadmap. Define the technical vision and roadmap for the Context Layer, including knowledge graphs, RAG engines, and retrieval and search infrastructure. Design and own the access control and role-based access control (RBAC) model for multi-tenant data, agent identity, and fine-grained permissions. Develop and evolve APIs, SDKs, and developer interfaces that are intuitive, well-documented, scalable, and widely adopted. Identify data platform dependencies and collaborate with data engineering to ensure reliable infrastructure for context-layer requirements. Lead architecture discussions, design reviews, and code reviews while setting technical standards for modeling, storing, retrieving, and governing context. Address data governance and security requirements, including data access controls, lineage, and auditability. Provide technical leadership across teams and drive complex, multi-stakeholder projects through delivery. Contribute to hiring strong and diverse engineering talent. Support internal documentation, onboarding, and platform adoption initiatives to help teams understand and use the Context Layer effectively. Required Qualifications 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on data-layer or search and retrieval infrastructure. Proven experience designing and building production knowledge graphs and/or large-scale retrieval and search systems. Deep expertise in RAG architectures, vector databases, and embedding-based retrieval, including evaluation, quality tuning, and relevance optimization. Strong understanding of access control and RBAC design in multi-tenant, data-rich environments. Experience designing developer-facing APIs and SDKs that are intuitive and achieve strong internal adoption. Familiarity with data governance, lineage, and auditability requirements, particularly in enterprise or regulated environments. Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction across multiple teams and deliver complex projects involving multiple stakeholders. Experience with Python and/or Java, with the ability to work across data engineering, backend systems, and platform infrastructure. Excellent communication skills, including the ability to align engineering, product, data, and leadership teams on technical direction and outcomes. Equal Opportunity / EEO Clari + Salesloft is committed to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace where people can belong and thrive. The company values culture add over culture fit and recognizes the unique perspectives, experiences, and identities employees bring to the organization. Clari + Salesloft is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment opportunities are provided without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by law. Candidates are encouraged to apply even if their experience does not perfectly match every listed requirement. The company is hiring across multiple geographies and welcomes passionate, curious, and mission-driven individuals. Official recruitment communications will come from an @clari.com or @salesloft.com email address. Candidates can verify job-related communications through the company's official careers page. Clari + Salesloft may use AI tools to support parts of the hiring process, including application reviews, resume analysis, note-taking, and response summaries. These tools assist the recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Hiring decisions are made by people. Candidates who want more information about data processing or wish to opt out of AI-assisted tools can contact their recruiter; opting out will not affect their consideration. Salary & Benefits Work arrangement: Remote, United States. Base pay range: $1–$100,000 USD. The total compensation package may include performance bonuses, benefits, and other applicable incentive compensation plans. Actual compensation depends on factors including skills, depth of experience, certifications, and work location. Clari + Salesloft aims to provide compensation that is transparent, fair, equitable, and designed to attract and retain employees.