Invest in your career with a Madrona-funded company.
0
Companies
0
Jobs
Principal Engineer - Generative AI & Multimodal Content Architecture
Typeface
Software Engineering, IT, Data Science
California, USA · Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Aug 14, 2025
Who we are?
Typeface is on a mission to help everyone express their unique imagination. We believe technology is a creative partner that empowers any company to tell their unique stories faster and easier than ever before. Generative AI platforms represent a major breakthrough to create content at tremendous speed and scale. For enterprises to successfully leverage their potential, they need to include their unique voice and style and ensure responsible AI practices. We unite content velocity with brand personalization and safety, so that every company can achieve its creative potential. We are looking for passionate individuals who want to help build a fast-growing GenAI company from the ground up.
Why join us?
- Bleeding edge technology: We explore uncharted territory at the intersection of art and science. We strive to revolutionize content, amplifying human creativity with cutting-edge AI in a safe and responsible way.
- Best-in-class product: We built the leading enterprise-grade generative AI solution, so any business, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, can 10x personalized content at scale. Typeface combines the best-in-class AI platforms across the board with our own brand-personalized AI model to hyper-personalize content at scale with a responsible AI approach.
- World-class team: Founded by the former CPO & CTO of Adobe, Abhay Parasnis, and a highly experienced team with a proven track record of building revolutionary, long-lasting AI, SaaS, and media technologists that are completely focused on customer impact.
- Top-tier Investors: Backed by top-tier venture capital firms: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, GV (Google Ventures), Madrona, Menlo Ventures, and M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund). Check out our Series B announcement.
- Rapid customer traction: Overwhelming demand from Fortune 500 companies and popular digital-native brands from every industry.
- Awards & recognition: Honored to be a winner of 10+ industry awards for our unique approach to enterprise GenAI, including Fast Company’s “Top 5 Next Big Things in Tech” and Adweek’s AI Company of the Year.
As a Principal Engineer (IC7+), you will:
- Solve complex architectural challenges to harness the power of LLMs and multimodal AI for scalable, enterprise-grade content generation.
- Lead cross-functional technical initiatives spanning multiple teams and product areas.
- Partner with enterprise customers to deeply understand their challenges and translate them into robust, high-impact solutions.
- Mentor and guide engineers across the organization, raising the bar for technical excellence.
- Advocate for best-in-class engineering practices, ensuring security, scalability, and maintainability across the platform.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architectural Leadership:
- Define and evolve the architecture for AI-driven, multimodal content personalization.
- Evaluate and integrate cutting-edge AI technologies, optimizing for cost, latency, and output quality.
- Cross-Company Impact:
- Spearhead engineering initiatives that address critical business priorities.
- Translate complex enterprise customer requirements into practical, scalable solutions.
- Mentorship & Advocacy:
- Coach engineers in AI/ML systems, distributed architectures, and multimodal generation pipelines.
- Champion engineering best practices — from code quality to CI/CD, observability, and security.
- Execution Excellence:
- Contribute hands-on to code and design when needed.
- Ensure solutions meet enterprise-grade standards for security, reliability, and compliance.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years in software engineering, with at least 3+ years in a principal/staff-level IC role.
- Proven experience architecting distributed systems, AI/ML platforms, or large-scale SaaS applications.
- Strong background in cloud-native architecture (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and modern API design.
- Track record of influencing technical direction across multiple teams.
- Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Expertise in LLMs (prompt engineering, fine-tuning, inference) and multimodal AI (text, image, video, audio)
Impact & Outcomes
In your first 3 months, you will:
- Shape the architecture for the next generation of AI-driven, multimodal content solutions.
- Drive engineering excellence and raise the company-wide technical bar.
- Deliver solutions that directly address critical enterprise customer needs.
- Mentor engineers into senior technical leadership roles.
Why Join Us?
At Typeface.ai, you’ll work at the intersection of AI, creativity, and enterprise-scale impact. You’ll have end-to-end ownership, executive visibility, and the ability to shape the technical DNA of a fast-growing, category-defining company.
Benefits for Full-time Employees:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for all employees
- Competitive salary and equity compensation
- Flexible PTO
- Parental Leave
- Hybrid schedule with company provided lunch when in office
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
- Work with a fast-growing startup and be a part of an exciting journey
Equality Opportunity Statement
Typeface is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Diversity & Inclusion Statement
At Typeface, we embrace everyone and believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success. We are committed to creating a workplace that is welcoming and inclusive for all employees, regardless of their background or identity. We value diversity in all its forms and strive to cultivate a culture where all employees can bring their best selves to work.