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Principal Software Engineering Manager - AI Engineering (Position located in Bengaluru, India)

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Bengaluru, India

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About the Role

At KnowBe4, a Most Loved Workplace® certified employer in the Computer Software space, Empower employees to make smarter security decisions every single day.

<div class="content-intro">KnowBe4 empowers the modern workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by more than 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 is the pioneer of digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans. The KnowBe4 Platform provides attack simulation and training, collaboration security, and agent security powered by AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents) and a proprietary Risk Score. The platform leverages 15-years of behavioral data to combat advanced threats including social engineering, prompt injection, and shadow AI. By securing humans and agents, KnowBe4 leads the industry in workforce trust and defense.</div><img style="max-width: 100%;">

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At KnowBe4, we recognize that cybersecurity has always been a human problem. The KnowBe4 unified platform uses intelligent, adaptive systems to help manage risk for both people and AI agents, responding to threats, turning human behavior from the weakest link into the strongest defense.

As a Principal Software Engineering Manager, you'll lead a full-stack AI engineering team of data scientists, ML engineers, software engineers, and data engineers -&nbsp; building the models, services, and pipelines that power our products end-to-end. You'll set the technical direction across the stack, turn applied research into production systems, and grow the people doing the work.

Responsibilities:

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<li>Leadership: Hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing full-stack AI engineering team spanning data science, ML engineering, software engineering, and data engineering.</li>

<li>Technical Direction: Define the vision across the stack - model architectures, services, data pipelines, and the evaluation and production-readiness standards that hold it all together.</li>

<li>AI Delivery: Drive the design and deployment of LLM and SLM based architectures and agentic systems - RAG, fine-tuning, retrieval, orchestration, and evaluation pipelines that hold up in production.</li>

<li>Full-Stack Ownership: Own outcomes end-to-end - from data ingestion and feature pipelines, through modeling and serving, to the APIs and product surfaces that put AI in front of users.</li>

<li>Partnership: Align teams around shared architectural principles and long-term technical goals. Partner closely with Product Management to align engineering designs with product requirements.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Standards: Establish best practices for experimentation, model evaluation, observability, and responsible AI.</li>

<li>Execution: Set clear goals, manage roadmaps, and deliver outcomes that move product metrics - not just model metrics.</li>

<li>Domain Expertise: Stay deeply engaged with the cybersecurity landscape - emerging threats, evolving compliance requirements, and industry standards - so the team's work directly addresses the real-world challenges our customers face.</li>

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Requirements:

You lead from the front - still close enough to the modeling work to set technical direction, but focused on multiplying your team's impact.

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<li>10+ years in data science, applied ML, and AI engineering, with 3+ years leading cross-functional teams that ship AI-powered products.</li>

<li>Proven track record building and deploying AI systems - foundation models, ensemble architectures, RAG, fine-tuning, Generative AI and LLM orchestration.</li>

<li>Strong hands-on background in ML / DL modeling, statistical analysis, and rigorous evaluation.</li>

<li>Comfort leading across the stack - data engineering, ML, and the backend services and APIs that productize it.</li>

<li>Expertise in Python and the modern data/ML stack; comfort designing on AWS.</li>

<li>Experience partnering with engineering on model serving, MLOps, and vector search.</li>

<li>Track record of mentoring, hiring, and developing senior IC talent across multiple disciplines.</li>

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Bonus points if you have:

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<li>Background in cybersecurity, fraud, or other adversarial domains.</li>

<li>MS / PhD in CS, ML, or a related field, or publications in GenAI / NLP.</li>

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<li>AI &amp; LLMs: Anthropic Claude · AWS Bedrock · OpenAI · HuggingFace · PyTorch · LangChain · LangGraph&nbsp;</li>

<li>Data &amp; ML: Python · FastAPI · Pydantic · PySpark · Polars · Parquet · SageMaker · Vector DBs (PGvector, OpenSearch)&nbsp;</li>

<li>Cloud &amp; Infra: AWS Lambda · Batch · Glue · EventBridge · Terraform · GitLab CI/CD</li>

</ul><div class="content-conclusion">Our Fantastic Benefits

<div class="gmail_default">We offer company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets, employee referral bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition reimbursement, certification reimbursement, and certification completion bonuses - all in a modern, high-tech, and fun work environment. For more details about our benefits in each office location, please visit&nbsp;<a href="http://www.KnowBe4.com/careers/benefits" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.KnowBe4.com/careers/benefits&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1727463125306000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3gDeHkHPZYOcR3fRjLcL4_">www.KnowBe4.com/careers/benefits</a>.</div>

Note: An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.

Individuals seeking employment at KnowBe4 are considered without prejudice to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please visit www.KnowBe4.com/careers/request-accommodation.

No recruitment agencies, please.</div>

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Systemic Collaboration

Every day at KnowBe4 is filled with celebrations. Birthdays, work anniversaries, sales goals, and company milestones are all reasons to celebrate, and we celebrate big. There are always streamers, party horns, and applause sounding around the offices, and special events call for special celebrations, such as trips to local theme parks. Our employees have a positive vision for our future because our culture is centered around our people; we cultivate an environment of happy employees who work hard together to reach company-wide goals. It’s no wonder we have been ranked a top workplace for the last six years in a row!

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KnowBe4’s employees, including our leadership, practice extreme ownership, radical transparency, and complete honesty. Through extreme ownership, employees totally own their sphere of responsibility and take full ownership over their area. When something goes wrong, no one passes the blame. Instead, everyone looks internally to see what they could have done better to prevent the issue. Through radical transparency, we have cultivated an environment of freedom and trust. By practicing complete honesty, employees feel comfortable sharing feedback and accepting it, and it allows our employees to be on the same page. These values are the foundation of our culture and people. Our CEO, Stu, is one-of-a-kind! Not only has he cultivated a company culture of highly productive and happy employees, but he also puts a big emphasis on continued learning. Stu encourages employees to spend one hour a day learning new skills or strengthening existing ones. He truly serves as a model of KnowBe4 values. He hosts regular “Ask Me Anything” sessions and randomly selects employees each month to have lunch with him. Stu’s “No Door Policy” encourages employees to share ideas and ask questions. He welcomes all individuals to bring their true authentic selves to work!

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At KnowBe4, we recognize the value of building a diverse team that draws on different backgrounds and experiences. Our culture heavily focuses on creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all. For example, we offer employee resource groups to all of our employees. Our employee resource groups are designed to give employees a place to come together with others in KnowBe4 who may have shared experiences. Additionally, all employees are encouraged to bring their ideas forth to leadership with our “no-door policy.” We even have a suggestion box where all employees can submit their ideas to make KnowBe4 even better!

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Every morning at KnowBe4, employees start their workday with a 5-20 minute company-wide daily briefing, where our CEO, Stu, and other executives, update all Knowsters about current happenings in KnowBe4 and within our industry. Next, all departments at KnowBe4 collaborate during daily team stand-up meetings, so every employee is fully aware of what others on their team are working on. These quick, yet effective check-ins, allow Knowsters to communicate with one another while also having dedicated time to coordinate, brainstorm, and share ideas.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Working at KnowBe4

Common questions candidates ask about this role and KnowBe4's workplace

KnowBe4, the provider of the world's largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, is used by tens of thousands of organizations around the globe. KnowBe4 enables organizations to manage the ongoing problem of social engineering by helping them train employees to make smarter security decisions every day. Our team values radical transparency, extreme ownership, and continuous professional development in a welcoming workplace that encourages all employees to be themselves. Whether working remotely or in-person, we strive to make every day fun and engaging; there is always something exciting happening at KnowBe4.

Please review the specific job listing or contact KnowBe4's recruiting team for details on remote or hybrid work options for this role.

Salary information may vary by role and location. Please check the specific job listing or discuss compensation during the interview process.

KnowBe4 is an established organization in its industry. The company is a certified Most Loved Workplace®, highlighting a strong, positive culture and committed workforce.

Key benefit categories include: Health & Wellness, Financial, Work-Life Balance, Professional Development, Perks & Culture. You can view more details on their CertCheck profile.

The day-to-day environment is guided by core values such as Why Work Here and CEO Leadership and Company Culture.

The company has committed to inclusive practices including: Radical Transparency and Extreme Ownership.

KnowBe4 has an employee workplace love score of 86%. They score particularly well in the area of Systemic Collaboration. They have earned Most Loved Workplace® certifications including: Certified Most Loved Workplaces® 2025 and Most Loved Workplace® Certified 2023.

KnowBe4 currently has 89 open positions. They are hiring across departments like Sales, Marketing, Customer Support . You can view all current openings at certcheck.mostlovedworkplace.com/companies/knowbe4/jobs.

The interview process typically involves an initial recruiter screen followed by team interviews. Please contact KnowBe4's recruiting team for specific details on this role's process.