Lead Software Engineer - Core AI

About this role

WHO WE ARE

Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the AI-Powered Marketing Cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and trillions of consumer signals to make it easier for marketers to acquire, grow, and retain customers more efficiently. Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform – powered by one of the industry’s largest proprietary databases and AI. Our enterprise customers across multiple verticals are empowered to personalize experiences with consumers at an individual level across every channel, delivering better results for marketing programs. Zeta was founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley and is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world. To learn more, go to www.zetaglobal.com.

The Role

As a Lead Software Engineer on our AI Platform Team, you will drive the design and development of the next generation of agentic, reliable, and scalable GenAI platforms supporting state-of-the-art large language models, evaluation systems, and secure developer tooling. You will play a key role in shaping technical direction, ensuring architectural excellence, and mentoring peers while collaborating across the company to infuse AI into real-world production solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Set technical direction and architect multi-tenant GenAI platform systems
• Lead the development of secure, scalable platforms and developer tooling for agentic coding and experimentation
• Integrate generative AI frameworks, LLMs, and evaluation platforms into enterprise-grade solutions
• Solve complex technical challenges, ensuring reliability, security, and performance at scale
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with Research, Product, and Engineering teams to deliver impactful solutions

Qualifications:

- 8+ years engineering experience
; proficient in C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, or Py...