Senior Software Engineer, AI

Position Overview

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We are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer, AI, to join our team of engineers developing our flagship PolicyNote web application. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, test, and maintain across the full stack of our application and create delightful user experiences while improving backend functionality and internal APIs. You will be coding using primarily Python (FastAPI) and ES6 Javascript (React and Next.js) in addition to a healthy smattering of other web technologies for file storage, asynchronous job handling, and security. You will also be working with the latest Generative AI and LLM technologies as you add AI capabilities to our core products. This position will also provide opportunities to mentor other engineers, provide technical guidance, perform code reviews, and deliver on projects end-to-end. Reporting to the Director of AI Development, you will play a crucial role in supporting the company's growth and success.

About the Team

The FiscalNote R&D organization drives the technology vision and strategy behind our data and application products, which empower thousands of customers, content creators, and professional service teams globally. You will be part of the team dedicated to creating impactful “aha moments” that quickly engage users and drive solutions using innovative technologies with a broader focus on problem validation, and evaluating experimental tech for future growth. With a mission rooted in transforming access to government information and making public policy data actionable, we combine expertise from technology and political science to build tools that foster transparency, drive informed decision-making, and enhance civic engagement. Together, we’re united by a commitment to shape the future of machine-augmented decision-making, providing the insights that fuel progress and public trust.

About You

Driven. Curious. Thoughtful. You have a passion for learning and continuously improving your skills. You aren’t afraid to dive into unknown challenges, get started quickly, and then share what you’ve learned. You are a strong communicator. You enjoy working collaboratively on distributed teams. You habitually produce documentation to make it easy for others to understand your work. You aim to automate anything you’ll do more than twice. You have a sense of responsibility to ensure the success of your projects. You are proactive about addressing ambiguity and roadblocks. #LI-HR1

What To Expect In This Position

• Build web application functionality in Python/FastAPI and React/Next.js.
• Work with and integrate the latest Generative AI and LLM technologies.
• Design and contribute to high-compute and volume data pipelines. FiscalNote is massively data-driven. We have teams working across our data pipeline from ingestion/scraping to data engineering/ML to search before it is made available to our users. Managing this dataflow and finding ways to validate our data and optimize it is essential to our success.
• Integrate data/functionality across multiple software solutions. Deeply integrating our products, finding synergies and opportunities across multiple existing solutions, and building out new global services will solidify our positioning as an end-to-end offering.
• Push the limits of what it means to search. The kind of information our clients need and want access to, what is and isn’t important, is constantly evolving. Not only do they want more, they also want better. We need to be able to tell our customers more than “here is what you’re looking for” – we also want to be able to say “and this is why it matters.”
• Work across teams to ensure cohesion and collaboration across R&D functions (Engineering, Product, QA, Data, etc.)
• Write high-quality, well-documented, and reusable code
• Mentor other engineers on software development best practices
• Create delightful experiences