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# Principal Software Development Engineer at Auger

- **Company:** Auger
- **Location:** Bellevue, WA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/auger/am9icG9zdDpDj-rnmKwLoX2o36n2nL_j

## Job description

## About the Team & Role

At Auger, we are reimagining how global supply chains operate by harnessing the power of data, AI, and next-generation technologies. Central to this vision is the design and evolution of a cutting-edge data lake and AI platform, the backbone of our real-time insights, intelligent applications, and advanced decision-making capabilities. As a Principal Engineer for the Auger Platform, you will bring deep expertise in the following:

## What You'll Do

- Own end-to-end systems architecture across data pipelines, AI/ML platforms, semantic layers, and application interfaces — designing for modularity, scale, and durability from day one.
- Build and evolve the data integration layer: ingestion, normalization, and orchestration across structured and unstructured sources, using API-first design principles (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) and real-time streaming technologies like Kafka and Apache Pulsar.
- Architect the semantic intelligence layer: knowledge graphs, ontology design, vector embeddings, and RAG techniques that give Auger context-aware reasoning across the full enterprise data fabric.
- Design and operate scalable AI/ML platforms for training, deployment, and model lifecycle management — integrating LLMs, embeddings, and multimodal models into production applications via MLOps tooling (MLflow, SageMaker, Databricks).
- Drive AI into the application layer: partner with product and design to ship agentic, adaptive user experiences that surface intelligence at the moment operators need it.
- Set architectural direction across the platform: make layer boundaries, evolution strategies, and tradeoffs explicit — and document decisions the team can execute against with confidence.
- Raise the bar on operational rigor: fault tolerance, high availability, observability, and performance at enterprise scale are non-negotiable properties, not afterthoughts.
- Mentor engineers on system design, coding standards, and operational excellence — and hold a high bar on what ships.

## What You Bring

- Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in systems architecture, software engineering, and platform development — with a proven track record building scalable data platforms or AI-driven systems at enterprise scale.
- Deep programming expertise in Python, Java, or C++, and hands-on experience building distributed systems in cloud-native environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP, including multi-cloud).
- Fluency in real-time data processing and analytics frameworks (Spark, Kafka, Flink) and big data technologies (Databricks, Snowflake, Hadoop).
- Advanced understanding of semantic modeling, knowledge graphs, and ontology design — including graph databases, graph embeddings, link prediction, and GNNs.
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML pipeline design and deployment, including frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or equivalent, and familiarity with architectural patterns including microservices, event-driven architectures, and domain-driven design.
- Technical leadership through ambiguity: you set direction, communicate tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical partners, and write crisp architecture decisions when the stakes are high.

## About Auger

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Auger is building the world’s first autonomous operating system for supply chain operations, collapsing the gap between signal and execution with AI-powered automation.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Bellevue, Washington, USA
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Dave Clark (Founder & CEO), Leigh Anne Clark (Co-Founder and President, Fashion and Beauty)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Supply Chain Technology, Enterprise AI, Logistics Software
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (large-scale supply chain operators, retailers, manufacturers, logistics providers)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To eliminate the Coordination Tax that traps enterprises in manual silos and fragmented systems. To make superhuman operations available to every enterprise ready to lead."

## Products & Services
- **The Autonomous Operating System**: A unified AI-powered platform that integrates with existing enterprise systems to provide real-time intelligence, cross-system synchronization, and autonomous execution of routine supply chain tasks (demand shifts, lead time management, capacity planning, scheduling). The system turns messy data into executable truth, allowing operators to move from firefighting to strategic work.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric – Total Funding**: $400M across three rounds (Seed, Series A, Series A extension)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Oak HC/FT (lead investor in initial $100M Series A)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **223.9% YoY** (from ~26 to 129 employees)
  - LinkedIn follower count grew **74.5% YoY** (currently 12,855)
  - Active job postings: 17 (up 88.9% YoY)
  - Major talent pipeline from Amazon (26 hires), Microsoft (9), AWS (7), Meta (4)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founder pedigree**: Led by Dave Clark, former CEO of Amazon’s worldwide consumer business — deep operational credibility at global scale.
- **"Living Ontology" approach**: Not layering AI on top of broken legacy systems, but building a unified data fabric across the entire enterprise.
- **Consumer-grade UX**: Makes complex supply chain tasks accessible through simple, intuitive interfaces (e.g., natural language queries for inventory insights).
- **Team composition**: 53% of employees in technical roles; includes a Chief AI and Agentic Scientist, Chief Supply Chain Scientist, and Chief AI Economist — rare depth of domain AI expertise.

## Strategic Focus
- **Autonomous execution**: Replacing the "speed of consensus" (manual coordination, meetings, spreadsheets) with real-time, automated reflexes.
- **Sustainability**: Positioning autonomous execution as the architecture for sustainable scaling — reducing excess inventory, expedited shipments, and waste.
- **Expanding beyond supply chain**: The company states it will expand "wherever coordination breaks down," suggesting a platform play across adjacent operational domains.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Described as a "pioneering venture" with a human-centered approach to solving broken supply chains. The team is composed of operators who "have lived the consequences" — late nights, impossible trade-offs — and are building to eliminate that pain for others.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: In-office roles (e.g., Strategic BDR listed as "In-Office"). HQ in Bellevue, WA, with additional offices in Clyde Hill, WA and Bellevue, WA.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Heavy investment in deep technical talent (AI, data science, supply chain science). Emphasis on moving from "firefighting to reinvention." Backed by top-tier VC with substantial runway ($400M total funding). Strong pipeline of ex-Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta engineers.

## Sources
1. [auger.com](https://auger.com/about/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/augerinc)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/auger)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/auger)
5. [theorg.com](https://theorg.com/org/auger-1)

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