principal Software Engineer tech_leadership · Posted May 15, 2026
$174,190 – $287,410
USD per year

About this role

Red Hat is hiring a principal-level Software Engineer based in Boston, MA. The posting calls out experience with Python, AWS, Kubernetes, TensorFlow. Compensation is listed at $174,190–$287,410 per year.

Role
Software Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
principal
Track
Tech leadership
Employment
Full-time
Location
Boston, MA
Posted
May 15, 2026

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Job description

from Red Hat careers

About the Job

The Digital workforce team is part of Red Hat’s Data and AI organization. The team is focused on building and delivering strategic AI agents designed to augment human capabilities, accelerate workflows, and scale operations across the enterprise.

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Data Scientist to lead our initiatives in natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, and data analytics. The ideal candidate will be passionate about creating and developing applications, particularly within the language sector, and have excellent analytical and machine learning knowledge. The focus of the role will be to transform natural language data and requests into creative and interactive features part of our finance & operations business. If you want to build Next generation AI/ML applications, if you have rock-solid development skills, if you thrive in a start-up like environment, if you think outside of the box and love working in a team with similar minded engineers, if you are creative and want to help solve real world customer problems and love presenting innovative solutions, if you believe in community and OpenSource development culture then we are the TEAM for you.

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