Senior Developer - AI Engineer

R&D & Technical
Senior Developer - AI Engineer
IL, Netanya (Hybrid)
Description

We're looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer with experience in building AI based products to join our Bright Insights Business Unit. You'll play a crucial role in building AI-powered features that turn our digital shelf and market share data into actionable insights, working alongside a talented and passionate team.

Responsibilities
End-to-end feature development for AI-powered analytics on rich datasets, from architecture to production.
Mentor teammates and partner with Product, Data Science, and Design to deliver reliable conversational flows.
Design secure, low-latency data retrieval and AI integration pipelines (function calling, agentic workflows, etc…) for internal datasets and APIs.
Build and scale integrations to data sources - defining schemas, queries, and caching strategies; continuously improve backend components to deliver a top‑notch user experience with efficient resource trade‑offs.
Establish quality guardrails, automated tests/evaluations, and observability; optimize for scalability, performance, and cost; run A/B tests.
Optimize context engineering and data retrieval strategies - balancing relevance, latency, and token efficiency to deliver accurate AI-powered insights.

*Bright Insights offers actionable ecommerce data analysis for retailers, analysts, and investors: https://brightdata.com/products/insights

Requirements
6+ years in software development, including 3+ years with Python; experience with .NET C# or Java.
Practical experience with LLM-based systems: prompt engineering, context optimization, retrieval-augmented generation, function calling, embeddings, and vector databases
Experience building APIs and microservices; strong software design, testing, and debugging skills
Front-end development in JavaScript and React; experience with data visualization/charting is an advantage
Understanding of data retrieval optimizations, caching strategies, and query performance tuning
Work experience in a cloud environment, preferably AWS; CI/CD, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and monitoring/observability
Proven track record delivering reliable, low-latency, cost-efficient production systems
Solid understanding of SQL and data modeling; familiarity with NoSQL technologies
Excellent communication skills in English.