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As a Principal Software Engineering Manager, youll lead a full-stack AI engineering team of data scientists, ML engineers, software engineers, and data engineers - building the data pipelines, models, services, and endpoints that power our products end-to-end. Youll set the technical direction across the stack, turn applied research into production systems, and grow the people doing the work.

Responsibilities:
- Lead from the front: Stay close to the AI engineering craft while multiplying your team s real-world product impact.
- Drive AI delivery: Build, orchestrate, and deploy production-ready LLM, SLM, and agentic architectures (RAG, fine-tuning, eval pipelines, context engineering).
- Own the stack: Take full ownership from data ingestion pipelines to consumer-facing APIs.
- Translate strategy into execution: Turn KnowBe4s goals into operational plans and transparent priorities for the team.
- Coordinate cross-functionally: Partner across product, research, and engineering functions to deliver end-to-end.
- Coach and grow the squad: Build,



mentor, and develop a full stack AI team; own hiring, performance, and career growth

To thrive in this role, youll need a strong foundation in software engineering and a background in product development. The following skills are essential:

Education and Technical Experience:
- Experienced Leader: B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech/MS with 10+ years across AI/Software/Data Engineering or ML, including 2+ years directly leading engineers while staying hands-on.
- GenAI Builder: Proven track record deploying foundation models, RAG, fine-tuning, agentic systems (MCP, LLM orchestration) into production.
- Hands-on Engineer: Strong full-stack chops Python, FastAPI/APIs, distributed computing, serverless, and AWS (Bedrock/SageMaker).
- Full-Stack Competent: Comfortable leading across data pipelines (Glue/Spark), model serving, MLOps, and vector search/RAG.
- Talent Developer: Proven success hiring and mentoring str

📌 Principal Software Engineering Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 KnowBe4
📍 Bengaluru