Senior Software Engineer, Knowledge Platform

Senior Software Engineer - AI Knowledge Team

Employment Type: Full-time Location Type: US-based (Remote or New York City office)

Position Overview

Dataminr is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our AI Knowledge team. This role is crucial for building and maintaining our multi-million node knowledge graph, which is the backbone of Dataminr's real-time event detection and alerting platform. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will leverage your expertise in software engineering, data engineering, and AI to influence the future direction of Dataminr's knowledge platform.

AI Innovation at Dataminr

At Dataminr, you will engage daily with cutting-edge AI trends to power a revolutionary product that uncovers critical global events as they happen. Our work includes:

• Regenerative AI: Developing and utilizing ReGenAI, our novel generative AI technology that automatically regenerates real-time Live Event Briefs.
• Agentic AI: Implementing our Intel Agents, which autonomously generate critical context for clients on real-time events, threats, and risks.
• Multimodal AI: Detecting events from diverse data types including images, video, sensor data, audio, and text in over 150 languages.

The Opportunity

This role offers the chance to:

• Lead initiatives focused on the development of Dataminr's Knowledge Platform.
• Develop robust pipelines and services for constructing and managing our large-scale knowledge graph.
• Collaborate within cross-functional teams of software engineers, data scientists, and AI researchers to create new capabilities that integrate knowledge and AI for scalable, automated alerting.
• Develop and implement AI solutions for automating data quality assessments and knowledge graph updates.
• Build solutions for knowledge graph data access and management, including the application of GenAI/LLMs.
• Work on advanced applications of AI over the knowledge graph.

What You Bring

Dataminr values your unique skills and potential. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification.

• Education: M.S. in Computer Science. Ph.D. studies in any field is a plus.
• Experience: 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Programming: Proficiency in languages such as Python, Java, and Scala.
• Data Engineering: Experience with data engineering and ETL pipelines.
• Cloud & Distributed Systems: Experience with cloud and distributed systems.
• Knowledge Graphs: Prior experience working with knowledge graphs is a plus.
• AI: Prior experience with AI is a plus.
• UI Technologies: Prior experience with UI languages and frameworks like React, React Native, TypeScript, and JavaScript is a plus.
• Teamwork: Experience working with cross-functional teams.
• Problem Solving: Strong problem-solving skills.

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About Dataminr

Dataminr is a mission-driven organization powered by talented builders, creators, and visionaries dedicated to making a real-world impact on how organizations respond to events. Our groundbreaking, AI-powered intelligence platform provides the earliest signals of emerging risks, events, and threats. Trusted by a significant portion of the Fortune 50 and Fortune 100, Dataminr's platform analyzes billions of public data inputs across text, image, video, audio, and sensor data in over 150 languages. This empowers our clients to stay ahead in a complex world where every second counts.

Founded in 2009, Dataminr pioneered the world's first real-time event detection platform, long before the recent Gen AI surge. Our global team is united by a passion for using AI for the greater good, driving positive change, and equipping clients with the technology needed to keep organizations running and people safe. We invest in our employees as much as they invest in developing our revolutionary technology.