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At New Relic, we empower our customers with real-time insights to accelerate innovation. Our observability tools provide deep visibility into various technologies and distributed systems, enabling software engineering teams to proactively address issues, optimize performance, and enhance their infrastructure.

Join our Cloud Platform team to develop state-of-the-art cloud platforms and services that securely process over 2 billion telemetry events per minute across multi-cloud environments. We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to spearhead our expansion into AI and ML technologies space, with a special focus on Generative AI. This pivotal role involves developing innovative Generative AI solutions that generate dynamic content, automate decision-making, anomaly detection, and provide predictive analytics,and transforming how businesses interact with data. You will also address complex challenges and shape technical strategies that enhance our platform and New Relic product portfolio and foster cross-team collaboration.

This position offers an exceptional opportunity to accelerate your career growth, enhance your technical and collaborative skills, and deepen your expertise in Generative AI and cloud technologies. The ideal candidate will have robust experience in AI infrastructure, particularly in Generative AI, and a proven ability to address some of the most challenging and exciting issues in today's digital world.

What you'll do

• Lead and drive Generative AI Initiatives within the Cloud Platform team, play a central role in identifying and developing generative AI projects that innovate content creation, enhance decision-making processes, and provide predictive analytics, revolutionizing data interaction across business landscapes.
• Set and drive clear team objectives focused on impactful project outcomes, optimizing AI system architecture and infrastructure, and boosting developer productivity.
• Lead through rigorous data analysis to deliver substantial improvements, crafting use cases and methodologies to evaluate and refine strategic approaches.
• Drive the development of a comprehensive generative AI SDK, integrating Large Language Models like OpenAI and Google AI with popular programming languages such as Python, Java, c# etc., using platforms like AWS Bedrock or Azure Semantic Kernel or Google’s Vertex AI.
• Own and drive extensive technical efforts across multiple teams, ensuring projects are executed seamlessly and meet high standards.
• Mentor and support the professional development of engineers, and data engineers, enhancing the quality of engineering work and facilitating effective team integration.
• Drive and lead creating AI Proof of Concepts and Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) and supporting multiple business domains and iterating on the MVP models.
• This role not only demands deep technical expertise in AI and generative technologies but also strong leadership and strategic insight to guide and empower teams towards innovative solutions in the dynamic field of AI.

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Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics’ different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us – including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We’re looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes.

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We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid.

Our hiring process

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note : Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers’ means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.

We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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New Relic provides a variety of benefits for this role, including healthcare, dental, vision, parental leave and planning, mental health benefits, a (k) plan and match, flex time-off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, and other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees.

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