Staff Software Developer 2
Haley & Aldrich is a company dedicated to solving clients’ challenges in the built and natural environments. They are seeking a Staff Software Developer to assist in the development of AI-enabled platforms for environmental and engineering applications, involving various responsibilities in software development and project collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Assist with the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software applications that support AI-enabled knowledge management and decision-support platforms
- Develop and maintain data ingestion workflows for technical documents, tables, images, audio, video, and other structured or unstructured data sources
- Support implementation of retrieval-augmented generation workflows, including document chunking, metadata handling, vector embeddings, semantic search, and citation-enabled response generation
- Build and maintain backend services, APIs, databases, and data processing pipelines to support reliable platform operations
- Help develop secure web-based user interfaces for natural-language querying, citation display, file access, user feedback, and administrative workflows
- Work with cloud-based services, databases, and storage systems, including Azure AI Search, Azure Blob Storage, PostgreSQL, and related tools
- Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code using version control and collaborative software development practices
- Develop tests and participate in quality assurance/quality control activities to verify pipeline reliability, system performance, and response accuracy
- Collaborate with engineers, scientists, project managers, and AI specialists to translate technical project needs into practical software features
- Support development of reusable AI workflows, skill libraries, prompt templates, scripts, and training resources for environmental technology transfer
- Participate in user testing, pilot demonstrations, troubleshooting, and iterative product improvement
- Perform all work in accordance with company and client health and safety protocols
- Demonstrate the company’s foundational safety behaviors
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, Software Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related technical field
- Demonstrated software development project portfolio required; candidates must provide a GitHub portfolio or equivalent public code portfolio. School, research, open-source, and hobby projects are welcome
- Strong programming ability in Python and/or another modern programming language
- Familiarity with software development fundamentals, including data structures, APIs, databases, testing, debugging, and version control
- Experience using Git and GitHub or similar version control platforms
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and apply them to practical project needs
- Interest in artificial intelligence, large language models, data pipelines, web applications, and applied technical problem solving
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, written communication, and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, including software developers, engineers, scientists, and project managers
- Ability to work from the San Diego, CA office a minimum of three days per week; this is not a remote position
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, Software Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience with Python-based data pipelines, automation scripts, or backend services
- Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, or similar web development frameworks
- Familiarity with large language models, LLM APIs, prompt engineering, AI agents, or retrieval-augmented generation
- Familiarity with embeddings, vector databases, semantic search, hybrid search, or citation-enabled AI applications
- Experience with Azure services, such as Azure AI Search, Azure Blob Storage, Azure AI Content Understanding, Azure OpenAI, or cloud-hosted PostgreSQL
- Experience with SQL, PostgreSQL, or relational database design
- Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD, automated testing, or cloud deployment workflows
- Interest in environmental consulting, civil engineering, environmental engineering, remediation, or technology transfer applications
- Experience developing technical documentation, user guides, or training materials for software tools
Benefits
- Excellent career growth
- A highly competitive total compensation plan
- A solid benefits package
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