Role Overview
NETGEAR seeks a Staff Engineer for the AI Platform and Enablement team to drive artificial intelligence integration across all company operations, business units, and engineering groups. This hybrid position, based out of the Cork office with remote flexibility, suits an experienced technical leader with a strong background in distributed systems, LLM infrastructure, and cross-functional enablement.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate shared AI platform layers such as model routing, fallback mechanisms, API gateway patterns, and multi-provider abstractions for tools like Anthropic and OpenAI.
Manage cost and usage optimization across corporate AI expenditures, handling model selection, caching, session-level controls, and context efficiency.
Implement evaluation, observability, and monitoring frameworks to detect quality regressions and track analytics for LLM features and agents.
Scale the adoption of AI coding assistants and agents like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code throughout the engineering organization.
Partner directly with business units including Finance, Marketing, Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, Legal, and People to identify high-value automation workflows.
Simplify complex business processes and deliver accessible AI solutions, internal applications, templates, and repeatable enablement patterns for non-technical users.
Requirements
Minimum of 8 years of professional software engineering experience alongside a history of leading major technical initiatives.
Production experience building with LLM APIs, covering prompt design, context handling, tool use, and agentic workflows.
Track record of optimizing performance, reliability, and cost within cloud or distributed systems.
Experience designing or operating shared infrastructure, internal developer platforms, or APIs utilized across multiple teams.
Practical familiarity with AI-assisted development tooling and scaling their usage internally.
Strong architectural design skills, covering secure API design, observability, and distributed systems.
Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to Have
Background in business process automation, workflow tooling, RPA, or enterprise system integration across ERP, CRM, or financial applications.
Expertise in CI/CD, automation, and DevOps practices like GitHub Actions for ML and AI workflows.
Experience utilizing cloud platforms, with a preference for AWS and cloud-native architectures.
Previous experience in data engineering, ML engineering, LLMOps, or evaluation frameworks.
Experience working across web, mobile, or embedded system integrations.
Skills and Tools
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
AWS
LLM APIs and Agent Frameworks
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Salary and Benefits
Salary range: EUR 81,000 to EUR 94,000 per year.
About the Company
NETGEAR focuses on unleashing the potential of connectivity through intelligent solutions that protect and delight customers. The organization values performance-driven talent and champions a culture centered on daring to transform the future, connecting and delighting customers, communicating courageously, and collaborating to win together.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should visit the official NETGEAR careers page to submit an application for this opportunity.
