Software Engineer - AI & Document Systems at Foxit Software – Dublin, Texas

Software Engineer - AI & Document Systems

Location: Ireland (Remote or Hybrid Dublin area)Type: Full-time
About the roleFoxit is hiring a Software Engineer (MidSenior) to help build and scale AI-driven document systems. Youll work on production services that ingest, manage, retrieve, and reason over large document collectionswith a strong emphasis on PDFs and LLM-powered retrieval + analysis (RAG).This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys owning critical components end-to-end: from document pipelines and APIs to evaluation, latency, and cost.
What youll doDesign, build, and operate production-grade Python services powering document and AI workflowsOwn document ingestion and management pipelines, including reliability and scalabilityImplement RAG / semantic search systems that combine LLMs with document retrievalDevelop and refine prompting and context management strategies for real-world usageBuild and maintain embedding pipelines and vector database integrationsImplement and optimise PDF processing (structure, metadata, extraction, layout considerations)Design and maintain APIs for document services and AI capabilitiesDeploy and run services using cloud infrastructure and containersEstablish monitoring + evaluation for LLM quality, latency, and costMentor junior engineers and help raise engineering standards and best practicesCollaborate within an experienced team and take direction from team leads and peers
What youll bring (required)Bachelors degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering (or related)47+ years professional software engineering experienceAdvanced Python skills (production backend/services)Strong experience with LLMs, including prompt engineering and context managementProven experience designing RAG and semantic search systemsHands-on experience with embeddings and vector databasesStrong understanding of document management systemsSolid knowledge of PDF internals, extraction, and layout-related processingExperience building and operating production systems (reliability, observability, performance)Nice to have (bonus)Experience with vLLM, Ollama, or similar inference/runtime toolingOCR and layout tooling (e.g., Textract, Tesseract)Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)Docker / Kubernetes (containerisation and orchestration)Experience with security, access control, and GDPR-aligned system design
Why FoxitWork on AI + document systems at scale, where PDFs and enterprise workflows are coreOwn meaningful parts of the platform end-to-end (build ship operate)Flexible remote/hybrid options in Ireland, with collaboration in the Dublin areaIf you want, paste Foxits benefits/salary range and the team name (Product/Platform/AI) and Ill tighten the post further for LinkedIn (and add a short About Foxit blurb that fits Irish norms).