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Skillsoft is the global leader in eLearning. Trusted by the world's leading organizations, including 65% of the Fortune 500. Our 100,000+ courses, videos and books are accessed over 100 million times every month, across more than 100 countries. At Skillsoft, we believe knowledge is the fuel for innovation and innovation is the fuel for business growth. Join us in our quest to democratize learning and help individuals unleash their edge.
Are you ready to shape the future of learning through cutting-edge AI? As a Principal AI/Machine Learning Engineer at Skillsoft, you’ll dive into the heart of innovation, crafting intelligent systems that empower millions worldwide. From designing generative AI solutions to pioneering agentic workflows, you’ll collaborate with internal and external teams to transform knowledge into a catalyst for growth—unleashing your edge while helping others do the same. Join us in redefining eLearning for the world’s leading organizations!
Responsibilities:
Hands-on Principal AI/ML engineer, driving technical innovation
Partner with product owners to define visionary AI features
Collaborate cross-functionally to assess impacts of new AI capabilities
Consult and guide teams to productize prototypes with provable accuracy
Lead research and selection of COTS and development of in-house AI/ML technologies
Evaluate foundational models and emerging AI advancements
Explore new technologies and design patterns through impactful prototypes
Present research and insights to inspire innovation across teams
Guide, design and testing of agentic workflows and prompt engineering
Fine-tune models, validate efficacy with metrics, and ensure reliability
Evaluate and guide synthetic data generation for training and validation
Design and guide scalable data pipelines for AI/ML training and inference
Oversee data analysis, curation, and preprocessing
Collaborate with external partners on AI development and integration
Establish AI design best practices and standards for alignment
Contribute to patentable AI innovations
Utilize and apply generative AI to increase productivity for yourself and the organization
Environment, Tools & Technologies:
Agile/Scrum
Operating Systems – Mac, Linux
JavaScript, Node.js, Python
PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, OpenAI, Anthropic, and friends
Langchain, Langgraph, etc.
APIs GraphQL, REST
Docker, Kubernetes
Amazon Web Services (AWS), MS Azure
Sagemaker, NIMS
SQL: Postgres RDS
NoSQL: Cassandra, Elasticsearch (VectorDb)
Messaging – Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS
Monitoring – Prometheus, ELK
GitHub, IDE (your choice)
Skills & Qualifications:
8+ Years of Relevant Industry Experience (with a Master’s Degree Preferred)
Experience with LLMs and fine-tuning foundation models
Development experience including unit testing
Design and documentation experience of new APIs, data models, service interactions
Familiarity with and ability to explain:
Agentic AI development and testing
AI security and data privacy concerns
Synthetic data generation and concerns
Foundation model fine-tuning
Generative AI prompt engineering and challenges
Attributes for Success:
Proactive, Independent, Adaptable
Collaborative team player
Customer service minded with an ownership mindset
Excellent analytic and communication skills
Ability and desire to coach and mentor other developers
Passionate, curious, open to new ideas, and ability to research and learn new technologies
Skillsoft delivers online learning, training, and talent solutions to help organizations unleash their edge. Leveraging immersive, engaging content, Skillsoft enables organizations to unlock the potential in their best assets – their people – and build teams with the skills they need for success. Empowering 36 million learners and counting, Skillsoft democratizes learning through an intelligent learning experience and a customized, learner-centric approach to skills development with resources for Leadership Development, Business Skills, Technology & Development, Digital Transformation, and Compliance.
Skillsoft is partner to thousands of leading global organizations, including many Fortune 500 companies. The company features three award-winning systems that support learning, performance and success: Skillsoft learning content, the Percipio intelligent learning experience platform, which offers measurable impact across the entire employee lifecycle. Learn more at www.skillsoft.com.
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If this opportunity intrigues you, we would love for you to apply!
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What the Team is Saying
Skillsoft Compensation & Benefits Highlights
How does Skillsoft ensure its pay and bonus plans are competitive?
Skillsoft’s compensation is supported by employee feedback around market-rate pay, bonus opportunities, benefits and total rewards. The company pairs compensation with flexibility, learning access and career development programs that employees describe as part of the overall value of working there.
- Market-aligned pay and bonus opportunities: Employees describe Skillsoft’s compensation as competitive, especially in roles with bonus potential. Employees surveyed on external review sites cite “salary plus bonus potential” as market rate, quarterly bonus access in sales and a strong compensation plan. A marketing employee cited “great pay,” while a solution design architect described Skillsoft as offering a “very competitive benefits and total compensation package.” (Comparably; Glassdoor)
- Performance-based rewards: Skillsoft employees point to bonus opportunities as part of the company’s rewards approach. A software engineer said their bonus was “excellent,” while sales employees cite quarterly bonus access as part of their compensation package.
- Benefits as part of total rewards: Skillsoft’s total rewards are also supported by employee comments about health benefits, insurance benefits, flexible time off, remote work and work-life balance. Employees surveyed on external review sites cite health benefits and insurance benefits as strengths, while other employees highlight great benefits, remote-first work and flexibility as part of the employee experience. (Comparably; Glassdoor)
- Growth and learning as added value: Skillsoft’s rewards approach is connected to its employee growth culture. The company provides employees with access to Percipio, Aspire Journeys, role-based pathways, instructor-led training, coaching and CAISY® simulations. Employees describe Skillsoft as a place with “continuous learning opportunities across the tech stack” and “no better place to learn and grow.”
● External signals:
○ Compensation and bonus: Employees on external review sites cite market-rate salary plus bonus potential, quarterly bonus access in sales, a strong compensation plan, “great pay” and an “excellent” bonus as compensation strengths. (Comparably; Glassdoor)
○ Total rewards: Employees on external review sites describe Skillsoft as offering “great benefits,” a “very competitive benefits and total compensation package” and benefits that support work-life balance, flexibility and employee growth. (Glassdoor)
○ Health and insurance: Employees on external review sites cite health benefits, insurance benefits and good health plans as strengths of Skillsoft’s employee experience. Mental health benefits are also listed among Skillsoft’s employee benefits. (Comparably)
○ Flexibility as a reward: Employees on external review sites connect rewards not only to pay, but also to remote work, flexible hours, flexible time off, independence and management that avoids micromanaging. (Glassdoor; Comparably)
Bottom line: Skillsoft supports competitive pay through market-rate compensation, bonus opportunities and a broader total rewards experience that includes benefits, flexibility and career development.
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What We Do
Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) is a global leader in AI-native skills management for the human + AI era. By unifying learning, real-time skills intelligence, and workforce insights, Skillsoft helps enterprises build their Skillforce™ — humans and AI working together to drive measurable business outcomes. Through personalized, interactive learning across leadership, technology, and compliance, Skillsoft enables organizations to close critical skill gaps and accelerate transformation. Skillsoft is trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 1000, and supports a global community of more than 105 million learners. Learn more at skillsoft.com.
Why Work With Us
We help the world's biggest companies build better workforces — and we invest just as much in our own people. Learning new skills is a core part of your job here. We're fully remote, spread across the globe, and united by a shared belief that learning changes careers.
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