# Sr. Principal Software Engineer

AI That Moves the World. Careers That Move You Forward. At Cerence AI, you’ll help transform advanced AI into trusted, real-world solutions that make complex technology - think vehicles, robots, smart manufacturing, and emerging intelligent devices - more natural, reliable, and useful. Building on decades of innovation and global deployment in automotive, we are extending our expertise into new products, markets, and intelligent systems. As part of our global team, you’ll work alongside leading innovators, researchers, engineers, and business leaders to solve meaningful challenges and turn breakthrough ideas into technology people use every day. You’ll have the opportunity to make a visible impact, help shape Cerence AI’s next chapter, and move your own career forward. Who is Cerence AI? Cerence AI is the global leader in AI for transportation, specialized in building AI and voice-powered companions for cars, two-wheelers, and more that enable people to focus on what matters most. With over 500 million cars shipped with Cerence AI's technology, we partner with leading automakers (such as Volkswagen, Mercedes, Audi, Toyota and many more), mobility providers, and technology companies

- **Id**: 462265
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cerence-sr-principal-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-06-30T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-23
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T03:59:58Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 132
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7286
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity, Hybrid work, Insurance coverage
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Conversational AI, Speech & Audio AI, Automotive Software

## Company

- **Id**: 178070
- **Name**: Cerence
- **Domain**: cerence.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cerence>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: C
- **Score**: 62
- **Open postings**: 27
- **Ghost share**: 0.63
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 35
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 185000
- **Max**: 280000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 280000

## Technologies

- **AWQ** — Optional: no
- **CUDA** — Optional: no
- **GPTQ** — Optional: no
- **KV Cache** — Optional: no
- **llama.cpp** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **Speculative Decoding** — Optional: no
- **TensorRT-LLM** — Optional: no
- **vLLM** — Optional: no
- **TensorRT** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ghost
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale, company_stale
- **Days open**: 132

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-06T11:26:14Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 8
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.3
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 132
- **Expected fill days**: 35
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, ghost, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 280000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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