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Principal Engineer Intelligent Document & Context Grounding

UiPath


Job Location:

Bellevue, WA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 200000 - 250000
Posted: 7 August 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 4 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Engineering

Job Summary

Life at UiPath

The people at UiPath believe in the transformative power of automation to change how the world works. Were committed to creating category-leading enterprise software that unleashes that power.

To make that happen we need people who are curious self-propelled generous and genuine. People who love being part of a fast-moving fast-thinking growth company. And people who careabout each other about UiPath and about our larger purpose.

Could that be you

Principal Software Engineer Intelligent Document Processing & Context Grounding

Build the AI platform that powers trustworthy enterprise agents.

At UiPath were building the next generation of enterprise AIagents that dont just generate responses but understand business context reason over enterprise knowledge and deliver trustworthy outcomes at scale.

As a Principal Software Engineer youll help define and build the Intelligent Document Processing and Context Grounding platforms. Your work will enable AI agents to ingest understand retrieve and reason over large volumes of enterprise documents while maintaining accuracy security governance and performance.

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role for someone who has repeatedly shipped production AI systems and enjoys solving some of the hardest infrastructure challenges in enterprise software.

Youll influence technical direction across multiple teams while remaining deeply involved in architecture implementation mentoring and product delivery.

What Youll Do

Build production AI systems

Design and deliver the core services that power enterprise document understanding retrieval knowledge grounding and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) across the UiPath platform.

Youll own systems responsible for:

  • document ingestion

  • parsing and extraction

  • chunking and embedding

  • indexing

  • retrieval

  • knowledge management

  • evaluation

  • answer grounding

Raise the quality bar for enterprise AI

Drive improvements in:

  • retrieval quality

  • answer quality

  • groundedness

  • attribution

  • latency

  • scalability

  • cost efficiency

Youll evaluate emerging techniques challenge assumptions and introduce better architectural approaches as AI capabilities continue to evolve.

Solve difficult distributed systems problems

Architect highly available multi-tenant cloud services that process enormous volumes of enterprise content while maintaining reliability security and performance.

Youll work across:

  • distributed services

  • event-driven architectures

  • search platforms

  • vector databases

  • APIs

  • orchestration

  • cloud-native infrastructure

Lead through technical excellence

Principal Engineers at UiPath dont simply review designsthey actively shape them.

Youll:

  • influence architectural decisions across organizations

  • mentor senior engineers

  • participate in critical design reviews

  • establish engineering standards

  • help teams make thoughtful technical tradeoffs

  • raise the quality of engineering across the organization

Partner across Engineering Product and Applied AI

Work closely with Product Managers Applied Scientists Designers and Engineering Leaders to turn ambiguous AI opportunities into production capabilities customers rely on every day.

What Were Looking For

Were looking for builders.

Engineers who enjoy taking complex problems designing elegant systems and shipping software that customers depend upon.

Successful candidates will typically have:

  • 10 years building large-scale software systems

  • Significant experience shipping production AI products

  • Strong backend engineering experience in Python and/or C#

  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures

  • Experience building scalable APIs microservices and event-driven systems

  • Strong understanding of modern retrieval systems including RAG embeddings vector search evaluation and LLM-powered applications

  • Experience designing reliable multi-tenant enterprise platforms

  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly

  • A track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction beyond their immediate team

Technologies You May Work With

Our technology stack continues to evolve but experience in areas such as the following is valuable:

  • Python

  • C#

  • Azure (preferred) AWS or GCP

  • Docker

  • Kubernetes

  • Distributed systems

  • Event-driven architectures

  • Search platforms

  • Vector databases

  • LLMs

  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

  • Embeddings

  • OCR

  • Intelligent Document Processing

  • Knowledge Graphs

  • Evaluation frameworks

What Makes Someone Successful Here

The strongest engineers on this team dont simply know AIthey know how to build AI products.

They enjoy:

  • solving ambiguous technical problems

  • making thoughtful engineering tradeoffs

  • shipping production software

  • collaborating across disciplines

  • mentoring other engineers

  • balancing long-term architecture with short-term execution

Most importantly they remain hands-on.

This is a role for engineers who still love building.

Why Join UiPath

Enterprise AI is entering its next phase.

Organizations arent looking for chatbotstheyre looking for AI systems that can reason over their knowledge operate responsibly and deliver measurable business outcomes.

At UiPath youll help build the platform that makes that possible.

If youre excited by difficult engineering problems modern AI systems and building software that thousands of organizations rely on every day wed love to talk.

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Maybe you dont tick all the boxes abovebut still think youd be great for the job Go ahead apply anyway. Please. Because we know that experience comes in all shapes and sizesand passion cant be learned.

Many of our roles allow for flexibility in when and where work gets done. Depending on the needs of the business and the role the number of hybrid office-based and remote workers will vary from team to team. Applications are assessed on a rolling basis and there is no fixed deadline for this requisition. The application window may change depending on the volume of applications received or may close immediately if a qualified candidate is selected.

We value a range of diverse backgrounds experiences and ideas. We pride ourselves on our diversity and inclusive workplace that provides equal opportunities to all persons regardless of age race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity and expression national origin disability neurodiversity military and/or veteran status or any other protected classes. Additionally UiPath provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants privacy rights. To review these and other legal disclosures visit our .


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