GenAI Software Engineer (Teradyne, North Reading)

Our Purpose

TERADYNE, where experience meets innovation and driving excellence in every connection. We are fueled by creativity and diversity of thought and in our workforce. Our employees are supported to innovate and learn something new every day.

We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Opportunity Overview 

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Software Engineer with a strong background in Python to work on Generative AI projects. The ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in our team and will participate in varying projects, from chatbots to agentic systems to whatever comes next. 

• Work on projects in the Generative AI space, contributing not just code, but ideas 

• Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to improve our product, our process, and our team 

• Encourage good software engineering practices (unit testing, documentation, code reviews) in our projects 

• Collaborate with team members in different time zones 

All About You 

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field 

• 5+ years of commercial software development experience 

• Proficient in Python with experience programming for deployed systems 

• At least one year of development experience in AI/ML with Generative AI experience preferred. Generative AI development experience can be for either personal or professional projects 

• Experience using Generative AI tools, for example ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot 

• Technical leadership ability.  Strong collaboration and teamwork skills but also able to work independently where appropriate. 

• Able to clearly express your ideas and concepts both written and verbally, and to modify content effectively for individuals with different levels of technical expertise. 

• Understanding of Generative AI technologies, such as 

• • LLMs 

• • Effects of different hyperparameters on LLM results 

• • Fine-tuning 

• • Prompt engineering 

• • Applications such as chatbots and agentic systems 

• • RAG and/or GraphRAG 

• • Quantitative evaluation of LLM-based systems (e.g., evaluating Chatbots via LLM-as-judge or Agentic systems for tool selection) 

• Experience with good AI/ML practices such as model versioning, evaluation data and results management (e.g., metadata storage), regular system evaluations with evaluation result storage, etc. 

• Familiarity with MCP 

• Azure or other cloud experience 

• Software development in a Windows environment 

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Benefits:

Teradyne offers a variety of robust health and well-being benefit programs, including medical, dental, vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, and more.  Please click here to see details. 

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