Principal Engineer

About Us
Eightfold AI doesn't just organize data — we understand people. As pioneers of the world's most innovative AI-native Talent Intelligence Platform, we combine enterprise data, market insights, and user interactions to create a complete picture of talent across the entire employment life cycle, providing an end-to-end experience that includes hiring, development, and retention. A third of our customers are from Fortune 500 companies and have relied on us to move faster and more strategically than the competition. Our platform is guiding our customers through the greatest work acceleration in history by unlocking the power of people and showing them how partnering with AI can unleash unlimited potential.

We secured a
$220M Series E funding round, led by SoftBank
's Vision Fund in June 2021. Thus, we've raised more than
$400 million
in funding to date. We're valued at
over $2 billion.
Founders
Varun Kacholia ) &

Ashutosh Garg )

Our Engineering Leaders
Chandra )

Vinodh Ravindranath )

About Team
You will be joining a pivotal team at Eightfold responsible for our flagship Talent Acquisition (TA) product line, a major revenue generator that has been integral to our success from the start. Our prestigious global clients rely on this product, and our engineering team is at the heart of all product development activities. Key outcomes for this team include:

• Reducing time-to-hire for our customers.
• Innovating and enhancing product capabilities, from new feature development to improving existing features' maturity and performance.
• Integrating cutting-edge technologies such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI into our product architecture.
• Building new product lines as needed to deliver a robust and comprehensive customer experience.

The work done by this team is directly tied to Eightfold's overall success. If you're eager to be part of a dynamic, high-impact product development environment and grow with the team, this is the perfect opportunity.

What You'll Do

Being in a senior-most technical position, responsible for architecture, design, code, and delivery of multiple highly scalable systems

Mentor/coach other engineers to help them perform at their best by performing code/design reviews, and providing all the technical directions.

Being hands-on and curious about the technology, get into the ground-level technical details/depth whenever required.

Work with other engineering teams & cross-functional teams to address all the technical dependencies.

Actively participate in interviewing & hiring the top talent.

Innovate and suggest industry best practices, and participate in internal/external technical presentations.

What We Need

15 or more years of industry experience working with product companies.

Strong CS fundamentals with an excellent track record of architecting, designing, developing, and delivering highly scalable systems.

Passionate about writing code and code/design reviews, who believe in building high-quality systems.

Experience in distributed systems at the cloud scale, microservices, large-scale web applications, and cloud technologies.

Startup experience and SaaS product development experience are added advantages

Familiarity with modern AI-assisted development tools, such as Cursor or similar, to accelerate coding workflows.

Excellent communication skills with a can-do attitude/Self-starter.

Engineering Culture At Eightfold
We are a team of self-starters who excel in their fields. We believe in giving you responsibility, not a task. We want you to have ownership and pride in your work and see your work's positive impact on your colleagues, our customers, and the world. We believe in providing transparency and support so you can do the best work of your career.

Hybrid Work @ Eightfold:
We embrace a hybrid work model that aims to boost collaboration, enhance our culture, and drive innovation through a blend of remote and in-person work. We are committed to creating a dynamic and flexible work environment that nurtures the collaborative spirit of our team. Employees residing near our Bangalore and Noida offices are working from the office twice a week with the goal of transitioning to three times per week within the year.

provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or disability.