--- title: 'Principal Software Engineer - AI Platform - PA172 at ZoomInfo Technologies LLC' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/principal-software-engineer-ai-platform-pa172-zoominfo-technologies-llc-qeeb81ns36cb' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Principal Software Engineer - AI Platform - PA172 at ZoomInfo Technologies LLC - **Company:** ZoomInfo Technologies LLC - **Location:** Bethesda Maryland, United States / San Francisco California, United States / Waltham Massachusetts, United States - **Compensation:** $164k–$257k - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://www.zoominfo.com/careers?gh_jid=8661955002 ## Job description ZoomInfo is where careers accelerate. We move fast, think boldly, and empower you to do the best work of your life. You’ll be surrounded by teammates who care deeply, challenge each other, and celebrate wins. With tools that amplify your impact and a culture that backs your ambition, you won’t just contribute. You’ll make things happen–fast. What You'll Do : You’ll be joining a highly interdisciplinary team transforming the core of Zoominfo’s business. Collaborating with PMs, designers, and engineers you will rapidly drive innovation by building intelligent systems that power cutting edge user experiences, create valuable insights for our customers, and drive revenue growth. You'll design and deploy novel multi-agent systems that collaborate to solve complex problems implementing communication patterns, memory structures, and orchestration logic that enable agents to reason, plan, and act effectively. In addition to deploying scalable, observable, cost-efficient production AI services, you’ll be working with leading LLM technologies to build an agentic AI platform that multiplies your impact across teams. Your work will  enable teams across the organization to compose, evaluate, and deploy intelligent agents, accelerating time-to-market for new features and delivering business impact. What You'll Bring: Technical Excellence: - Strong Python skills. You prototype quickly and deliver maintainable, production-grade systems. - Solid data skills. You explore datasets, form hypotheses, and execute projects that leverage data through enrichment, transformation, or generative AI techniques. - Experience building LLM-powered agentic systems using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, or custom orchestration layers. - Understanding of context retrieval, grounding, compression techniques to optimize reasoning performance, vector databases, embedding stores, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures. - Experience quantifying stochastic performance and designing evaluation metrics that measure prompt quality, reasoning depth, and user-perceived value. - Experience with cloud-native systems (AWS/GCP), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and modern observability tooling. - Experience contributing to platforms and reusable components that enable other teams to build AI-driven solutions. Business Acumen: - Product-focused mindset: you think in terms of user value, revenue impact, and business outcomes. - Customer empathy: you understand how technical improvements translate to customer satisfaction, reduced friction, and willingness to pay. - Cost consciousness: you optimize for both performance and infrastructure efficiency. - Communication skills: you articulate technical work in business terms, presenting AI initiatives through the lens of ROI, market opportunity, and customer impact. Ownership mindset: you take responsibility for business outcomes, not just technical deliverables. Impact You'll Create: - Success in this role means driving measurable improvements in: - Revenue metrics: Feature adoption rates, expansion revenue, willingness-to-pay - Engagement metrics: Daily/monthly active users, session depth, feature usage - Efficiency metrics: Cost per inference, infrastructure optimization, time-to-market - Customer success metrics: NPS scores, churn reduction, support ticket deflection - Platform metrics: Internal team velocity, reuse of platform components, developer satisfaction ## #LI-SK1 #LI-Remote Actual compensation offered will be based on factors such as the candidate’s work location, qualifications, skills, experience and/or training. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific salary range for your desired work location during the hiring process. We want our employees and their families to thrive. In addition to comprehensive benefits we offer holistic mind, body and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being. Learn more about ZoomInfo benefits [here](https://www.zoominfo.com/careers#benefits). Below is the US base salary for this position. Additional compensation such as Bonus, Commission, Equity and other benefits may also apply. $163,800—$257,400 USD About us: ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM) is the Go-To-Market Intelligence Platform that empowers businesses to grow faster with AI-ready insights, trusted data, and advanced automation. Its solutions provide more than 35,000 companies worldwide with a complete view of their customers, making every seller their best seller. ZoomInfo is committed to protecting your privacy when you apply for jobs with us. Please review our Job Applicant [Privacy Notice](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yiG-k0YX_sW10PiJk_xliDc3W-veJCrK/view?usp=drive_link) for more details on how we handle your personal information. ZoomInfo may use a software-based assessment as part of the recruitment process. More information about this tool, including the results of the most recent bias audit, is available [here](https://www.zoominfo.com/legal/nyc-local-law-144-notice). ZoomInfo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring based on qualifications, merit, and business needs, and does not discriminate based on protected status. We welcome all applicants and are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, age, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability status, religion, protected military or veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in accordance with legal requirements. For Massachusetts Applicants: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. ZoomInfo does not administer lie detector tests to applicants in any location. ## About ZoomInfo Technologies LLC ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: ZoomInfo is a go-to-market (GTM) intelligence platform that provides B2B data, buying intent signals, and AI-powered automation to help sales, marketing, and recruiting teams find, engage, and win customers. - **Entity Type**: Public (Nasdaq: GTM) - **Headquarters**: Vancouver, Washington, USA - **Founded**: 2007 - **Founders**: Henry Schuck (also CEO and Chairman) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: B2B Go-to-Market (GTM) Intelligence, Sales & Marketing Technology, Data as a Service - **Target customers**: B2B companies of all sizes (SMB to Enterprise), specifically sales, marketing, recruiting, and revenue operations teams. - **Mission or purpose statement**: “To remove guesswork from go-to-market execution” and “unlock the growth potential of professionals and businesses with better data.” [zoominfo.com](https://www.zoominfo.com/about) ## Products & Services - **ZoomInfo Platform**: The core GTM Intelligence Platform that combines company and contact-level data with real-time buying signals and automation tools. - **ZoomInfo Copilot**: An AI-powered assistant that delivers insights, AI-guided recommendations, and automated actions to help sales teams focus on top accounts and win deals faster. - **GTM Studio**: A newer offering that applies generative AI and machine learning to every stage of the customer journey, enabling personalized outreach at scale. - **Data-as-a-Service**: Access to a vast database of verified B2B contacts, firmographic, technographic, and intent data, updated via proprietary technology, machine learning, and a contributory network. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: As a public company, market cap fluctuates; check current data on a financial site (e.g., Yahoo Finance). The company went public in 2020 in what was described as the largest software IPO in a decade. - **Key Metric**: Trusted by **35,000+** customers globally. Employs **over 3,000** people. [zoominfo.com](https://www.zoominfo.com/) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: The company was originally founded as DiscoverOrg and acquired ZoomInfo in 2019, later taking the ZoomInfo name. It is publicly traded with a broad institutional investor base. - **Growth Signals**: Continued investment in AI (Copilot, GTM Studio), global expansion (offices in US, Israel, UK, Canada, India, Australia), and a large and growing customer base. ## Competitive Advantages - **Data Depth & Accuracy**: Claims to have “unmatched depth of data” with millions of verified contacts and companies tracked globally, sourced from proprietary technology, machine learning, public sources, and a contributory network. - **Unified Platform**: Unlike many point-solution AI tools, ZoomInfo offers a single integrated platform combining data, intent signals, and automation, which reduces the need for a fragmented tech stack. - **Market Leadership**: The company is a dominant player in the B2B data and GTM intelligence space, trusted by a massive number of businesses. ## Strategic Focus - **AI-First Innovation**: Deep investment in AI and machine learning to power its Copilot and GTM Studio products, aiming to automate workflows and provide predictive insights. - **Platform Consolidation**: Continuing to build out an all-in-one GTM platform that increases operational efficiency and reduces the number of tools a revenue team needs. - **Global Expansion**: Growing its international footprint with offices and a distributed workforce to tap into global talent and markets. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: The company emphasizes a high-energy, fast-paced, and impact-driven culture. Core values include being **Entrepreneurial**, **Relentless**, a **Team**, **Innovators**, and **Experts**. The motto is “Get to Impact, Fast.” [zoominfo.com](https://www.zoominfo.com/careers) - **Hybrid/Remote Policy**: ZoomInfo offers a **flexible hybrid remote working model** to promote equity, employee wellness, and work-life balance. [zoominfo.com](https://www.zoominfo.com/careers/working-at-zoominfo) - **Compensation & Benefits**: Offers a “highly competitive total rewards program” including: - **Equity**: Competitive equity awards for select roles upon hire and during annual programs. - **Time Off**: Paid Time Off, Parental Leave, and FMLA/State Leave. - **Family Planning**: Partnership with Carrot for fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits. - **Learning**: Numerous self-paced, interactive live and online learning opportunities. [zoominfo.com](https://www.zoominfo.com/careers) - **Engineering Culture**: Described as a place where employees build, shape, and “unleash the power of data.” Engineers are empowered to take ownership from day one and work with AI-powered tools and real-time data insights. [zoominfo.com](https://www.zoominfo.com/careers/working-at-zoominfo) ## Sources 1. [ZoomInfo About Us Page](https://www.zoominfo.com/about) 2. [ZoomInfo Careers Page](https://www.zoominfo.com/careers) 3. [ZoomInfo Working at ZoomInfo Page](https://www.zoominfo.com/careers/working-at-zoominfo) 4. [ZoomInfo Homepage](https://www.zoominfo.com/) 5. 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