Principal Software Engineer, Generative AI Application - 100% remote

See yourself at Radian? We see you here too.

At Radian, we see you. For the person you are and the potential you hold. That’s why we’ve embraced a new way of working that lets our people across the country be themselves, be their best and be their boldest. Because when each of us is truly seen, each of us gives our best – and at Radian, we’ll give you our best right back.

Studies have shown that job seekers may hesitate to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification listed. We strive to see the potential in each applicant, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience or education level doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

See Yourself As A Principal Software Engineer - Generative AI

As the Principal Software Engineer – Generative AI Application’s your responsibilities include proprietary, customized-off-the-shelf and as well as third-party solutions with generative AI technologies to enable business lines, service offerings or other. You are responsible for delivering high-quality, standardized, secure and performant code for the value benefit of Radian and our customers. Outside of your software engineering duties, you are expected to make proposals across several teams on their engineering work with generative AI technologies and tools, and helps team members to make informed decisions in alignment with the department strategic plans.

Your Primary Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop features and improvements utilizing generative AI technologies and solutions to the Radian products in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
• Work with Product Management and other stakeholders (Backend, UX, etc.) to iterate on new features.
• Write code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Demonstrate capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Propose initial technical implementations which support architectural changes that solve scaling and performance problems.
• Confidently ship immense or otherwise extremely high-impact features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other members of the organization.
• Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of your sub-department.
• Teach, mentor, grow, and provide advice to other domain experts, across several teams in their department.
• Perform other duties as assigned or apparent.
  
  

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Your Basic Education And Prior Work-Related Experience

• Degree Requirement: Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience
• Work Experience: 5 years of prior work related experience
  
  

Additional Qualifications

• Professional experience with React, Node.js and/or Professional experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C# and Java.
• Experience with designing, implementing web application and consuming RESTful APIs in AWS/Azure.
• Experience with Python development, demonstrating a deep understanding of the language and its best practices.
• Experience with LLM tools and frameworks such as OpenAI, Claude, Bedrock, prompt engineering, LangChain, LlamaIndex and etc.
• Experience with the machine learning process of retrial augmented generation (RAG), fine-tuning and MLOps.
• Proficiency in working with RDBMS and No-sql, showcasing the ability to design and optimize database structures.
• Proficiency in working with vector database.
• A solid understanding in foundation models, custom model training and its lifecycle management.
• Understanding of DevOps processes and you appreciate the value technologies like Serverless, containers and Kubernetes bring to the software deployment and development process.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
  
  

See Your Location

Radian is committed to a flexible work environment for many of our roles. This is a *Work From Anywhere* role meaning you have the flexibility to work from home (or another designated workspace that fits your needs).

This role provides additional flexibility should you want to work on-site at a Radian office. Explore our office locations here and let your Talent Acquisition Partner know you would be interested in working on-site.

• Work From Anywhere is subject to Radian’s Alternative Work Policy and business needs.
  
  

See Why You Should Work With Us

• Competitive Compensation: anticipated base salary rate from $133,300 to $190,500 based on skills and experience. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive.
• Rest and Relaxation. This role is eligible for 25 days of paid time off annually, which is prorated in the year of hire based on hire date. In addition, based on your hire date, you will be eligible for 9 paid holidays + 2 floating holiday in support of our DEI culture. Parental leave is also offered as an opportunity for all new parents to embrace this exciting change in their lives.
• Our Company Makes an Impact. We’ve been recognized by multiple organizations like Bloomberg’s Gender-Equality Index, HousingWire’s Tech 100, and The Forum of Executive Women’s Champion of Board Diversity. Radian has also pledged to PwC’s CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion commitment.
• Comprehensive Health Benefits. Multiple medical plan choices, including HSA and FSA options, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
• Prepare for your Future. 401(k) with a top of market company match (did we mention the company match is immediately vested?!) and an opportunity to participate in Radian’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
• Homebuyer Perks. Our Homebuyer Perks program helps employees navigate the home searching, buying, selling, and refinancing processes and provides valuable financial benefits to encourage, enable, and support home ownership.
• Additional Benefits. To learn more about our benefits offerings, visit our Benefits Page.
  
  

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Radian will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.

See More About Radian

Radian is a fintech servicing the mortgage and real estate services industry. As a team, we pride ourselves on seeing the potential of every person, every idea and every day.

Seeing each other at Radian goes far beyond our open, flexible culture. It means seeing our people’s potential – and creating inspiring career paths that help them get there. Or seeing new pathways and innovating for the future of our industry. It means seeing each other for all that we are. And it means seeing our purpose as one that extends beyond the bottom line – having an impact on communities across the country to help more people achieve the American Dream of homeownership.

We hope you’ll see yourself at Radian. See more about us at Radian.com.

Defining Roles for Radian's Future

Understanding the qualities and characteristics that define a Leader and an Employee is important to building our future-fit workforce. Radian's future is only as bright as its people. For that reason, our People Plan includes profiles to support the qualities and characteristics that each Leader as well as each Employee should embody upon hire or via development.

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Accommodation

Whether you require an accommodation for the job application or interview process, Radian is dedicated to a barrier-free employment process and encourages a diverse workforce. If you have questions about the accommodation process, please e-mail careers@radian.com.

Please note that you may redact or remove age-related information that identifies your age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution on any additional application materials you submit as part of the application. Additional application materials include but are not limited to, resumes, CVs, transcripts, or certifications.