The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.
The RoleAs a Principal Software Developer in our AI R&D team, you will be expected to provide mentorship, solve complex problems, and manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.Your ImpactYou will have the opportunity to:
- Work closely with Software Development, Data Science, and Product Management teams to design, architect, and deliver next generation AI products, leveraging Generative AI, agentic systems, and machine learning technologies to create differentiated customer experiences and business value.
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of AI powered product capabilities, including Generative AI, large language model (LLM) applications, agentic AI systems, and intelligent automation solutions across AspenTech's product portfolio.
- Drive the technical architecture and implementation of AI products from concept to production, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and measurable customer value.
- Collaborate with Data Science, Product Management, and Engineering teams to identify opportunities to apply AI and autonomous agent technologies to solve complex industrial challenges.
- Evaluate and adopt emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and methodologies, translating research innovations into production ready product features.
- Provide leadership and guidance to entry level developers.
- Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or related technical field.
- 8+ years of progressive software development experience.
- Proficient with at least one of the following languages: Java, Go, Python, C#, C++.
- Demonstrated experience developing and shipping AI powered products and services in production environments.
- Experience with Generative AI technologies, including large language models (LLMs), retrieval augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, vector databases, prompt engineering, and model evaluation.
- Experience designing and implementing agentic AI systems utilizing planning, reasoning, tool orchestration, workflow automation, and multi agent architectures.
- Proficiency with modern AI frameworks and tooling.
- Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise software products with a strong focus on performance, observability, governance, security, and responsible AI practices.
- Familiarity with AI application lifecycle management, model deployment, monitoring, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
- Understanding of modern AI infrastructure, including GPU enabled cloud environments, vector databases, and distributed AI systems.
- Passion in finding creative solutions to problems, and pride in well crafted code.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical field
- 8+ years of progressive software development experience
- Proficiency in at least one of Java, Go, Python, C#, or C++
- Experience developing and shipping AI-powered products and services in production environments
- Experience with generative AI, LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, prompt engineering, and model evaluation
- Experience designing and implementing agentic AI systems, including planning, reasoning, tool orchestration, workflow automation, and multi-agent architectures
- Proficiency with modern AI frameworks and tooling
- Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise software with focus on performance, observability, governance, security, and responsible AI
- Familiarity with AI application lifecycle management, model deployment, monitoring, experimentation, and continuous improvement
- Understanding of GPU-enabled cloud environments, vector databases, and distributed AI systems
Aspen Technology Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Aspen Technology and has not been reviewed or approved by Aspen Technology.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as strong, with comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans and high-quality carrier options. Several recent remarks characterize the health insurance as "great" or "amazing," with low copays noted in some cases.
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Parental & Family Support — Maternity and paternity leave receive consistently positive mentions and are characterized as well-reviewed. Company materials also highlight family-oriented benefits alongside core coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The package includes vacation/PTO, paid holidays, and sick leave, with multiple indications of generous paid time off. Dedicated volunteer hours and well-regarded leave policies reinforce breadth in time-away benefits.
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What We Do
AspenTech is a global leader in asset optimization software helping the world’s leading industrial companies run their operations more safely, efficiently and reliably – enabling innovation while reducing waste and impact on the environment. AspenTech software accelerates and maximizes value gained from digital transformation initiatives with a holistic approach to the asset lifecycle and supply chain. By introducing effective AI modeling to traditional principles of process engineering, AspenTech delivers a faster and more accurate analysis of efficiency and performance boundaries. The real-time data and actionable insights delivered by our software help customers push the boundaries of what’s possible.
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