Principal Software Developer

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 Role As 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 Impact

You 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.

What You'll Need

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.

AspenTech is a global software leader helping industries meet the increasing demand for resources from a rapidly growing population in a profitable and sustainable manner. Our Digital Grid Management software suite, including AspenTech OSI products, helps power and utilities companies achieve superior real-time control, optimization and management for exceptional performance of complex energy networks. If you're looking to make a difference every day and push the limits of performance, AspenTech is doing things no one else thought was possible. As a leading industrial software partner, we help companies all over the world run safer, greener, longer and faster. With over 3700 employees and more than 60 global locations, AspenTech is meeting today's sustainability and business challenges head-on with unmatched expertise, cutting-edge AI-powered technology and a passion to innovate.

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Reasonable Accommodation: We will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals who have a disability or sincere religious reasons to request accommodation, when necessary to enable the individual to participate in the job application or interview process. If you wish to request an accommodation, please contact us at [email protected].

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