About the Role
Penguin Random House is seeking a Developer, Applied AI to join their Global Data Solutions team. This role involves building, maintaining, and enhancing secure, reliable AI-enabled applications to improve how internal business teams access, process, and use enterprise data. The position sits at the intersection of Python backend engineering, Azure cloud services, enterprise data integration, document processing, and practical AI implementation, focusing on solving real business problems and improving internal processes.
Responsibilities
- Help support existing applications.
- Design and build new solutions in response to evolving business needs.
- Work directly with stakeholders to understand requirements.
- Recommend practical technical approaches.
- Develop and test applications.
- Support deployments.
- Ensure solutions are secure, maintainable, and production ready.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python.
- Practical experience building, maintaining, or supporting production applications in a cloud environment, preferably Microsoft Azure.
- Experience developing REST APIs and backend services using frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or similar.
- Practical experience integrating generative AI or large language model capabilities into applications.
- Familiarity with one or more practical AI application patterns, such as prompt design, structured outputs, retrieval workflows, document processing, or orchestration.
- Experience using relevant Azure services in a production environment (e.g., Azure Functions, Durable Functions, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Document Intelligence, Blob Storage, Container Apps, Key Vault, Application Insights).
- Familiarity with AI frameworks such as LangChain and structured-output tools such as Pydantic, JSON Schema, or similar.
- Experience with Git-based development workflows, pull requests, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation.
- Ability to troubleshoot production issues using logs, monitoring tools, and application diagnostics.
- Working knowledge of SQL or experience working with enterprise data sources.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Skills
- Python
- FastAPI
- Flask
- Generative AI
- Large Language Models
- Azure AI services
- Retrieval-based workflows
- APIs
- Prompt design
- Structured outputs
- Document processing
- Orchestration
- Azure Functions
- Durable Functions
- Azure OpenAI
- Azure AI Search
- Azure Document Intelligence
- Blob Storage
- Container Apps
- Key Vault
- Application Insights
- LangChain
- Pydantic
- JSON Schema
- Git
- CI/CD
- SQL
- Retrieval-augmented generation
- Vector search
- Embeddings
- Semantic chunking
- LLM-powered extraction workflows
- Microsoft Fabric
- Fabric Data Agents
- Model Context Protocol
- FastMCP
- Docker
- Azure Container Apps
- Terraform
- Terragrunt
- OAuth
- JWT
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Managed identities
- On-Behalf-Of token exchange
- OpenTelemetry
- Azure Monitor
- Log Analytics
- pandas
- NumPy
- BeautifulSoup
- markdownify
- pypdf
- python-docx
- openpyxl
- Machine learning fundamentals
- AI evaluation approaches
- AI system design tradeoffs
- Secure development practices
- Data privacy
- Responsible AI
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Open-to-remote
Experience Level
- 3+ years of professional software development experience
Salary/Compensations
- $130,000-$160,000
Benefits
- Medical/Prescription drug insurance
- Dental
- Vision
- Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- Health Savings Account
- Pre-Tax and Roth 401(k)
- Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Life/AD&D Insurance
- Commuter Benefits
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- Educational Assistance
- Generous paid time off
About the Company
- Penguin Random House is the leading adult and children's publishing house in North America, the United Kingdom and many other regions around the world.
- They are committed to quality, excellence in execution, and innovation throughout the entire publishing process: editorial, design, marketing, publicity, sales, production, and distribution.
- Their brands and imprints include Ballantine Bantam Dell, Berkley, Clarkson Potter, Crown, DK, Doubleday, Dutton, Grosset & Dunlap, Little Golden Books, Knopf, Modern Library, Pantheon, Penguin Books, Penguin Press, Penguin Random House Audio, Penguin Young Readers, Portfolio, Puffin, Putnam, Random House, Random House Children's Books, Riverhead, Ten Speed Press, Viking, and Vintage, among others.
- More information can be found at http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
