Position: Software Engineer - Product R/D - IV
Location: Remote
Duration: Contract
Job ID: 171570
Job Overview: The Software Engineer - Product R/D - IV role involves contributing to the development of data and AI-enabled internal products for a venture capital firm. The focus is on creating next-generation capabilities, such as AI-assisted sourcing, diligence, enrichment, search/retrieval, and internal research tools. These solutions will be built on an AWS/Python stack and integrated with platforms like Slack, Retool, and Salesforce CRM. The role requires working within enterprise engineering and security guidelines.
Responsibilities: - Design and build AI-assisted workflows for investment, diligence, and portfolio monitoring.
- Integrate with major LLM providers and retrieval/vector services; establish patterns for prompt design, evaluation, and monitoring.
- Develop Python-based ingestion and transformation jobs on AWS (S3, Lambda, ECS, Aurora Postgres).
- Prepare and serve data in formats suitable for AI/LLM workloads (embeddings, indexes, features).
- Build and maintain Retool applications to support investment and platform operations.
- Ensure applications meet standards for access control, logging, and performance.
- Align Salesforce with the central data store to ensure consistency of core entities.
- Document pipelines, services, and apps for handover to internal staff or future suppliers.
- Add monitoring, alerting, and simple CI/CD where proportionate.
Qualifications: - 4-7+ years in software/data/platform engineering delivering production workloads.
- Strong Python skills for data processing, API integrations, automation, and packaging.
- Demonstrable experience with AWS for data/app workloads (S3, Lambda, IAM, scheduling/eventing, Secrets Manager).
- Hands-on delivery of AI-/LLM-backed features or workflows, such as RAG, semantic search, text classification, or automated summarization.
- Experience building internal tools in Retool or equivalent low-code/internal-app environments.
- Solid SQL skills and ability to work within an existing transformation layer (dbt or similar).
- Ability to engage directly with business users, clarify requirements, and report progress.
- Desirable: Experience integrating with Slack and Salesforce APIs, familiarity with vector databases/search technologies, and experience in venture capital/private equity settings.
About PTR Global: PTR Global is a leading provider of information technology and workforce solutions. PTR Global has become one of the largest providers in its industry, with over 5000 professionals providing services across the U.S. and Canada. For more information visit ;br>
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Pay Range: $90 - $95
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