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Company Description

Publicis Groupe is a global leader in communication and is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation. Through a unified and fluid organization, Publicis Groupe partners with its clients across communication, media, data and technology to ensure access to the full breadth of capabilities in every market. Present in over 100 countries, Publicis Groupe employs around 103,000 professionals.

Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer, GenAI & Applied Innovation, you will be the senior handson engineer in a crossfunctional AlphaLabs team. Your mandate: turn cuttingedge generativeAI research and datascience insights into live demonstrations that differentiates Publicis in competitive pitches and largescale client engagements. You will architect and build cloudnative services, GenAI-powered prototypes and intelligent APIs, then collaborate with data scientists, audience strategists, creatives and media technologists to embed those solutions across the connected consumer journey.

Responsibilities

1. Core Engineering & GenAI

• Design, build and own backend services, microservices and cloud functions (AWS, Azure, Databricks) that power GenAI and data science workflows.
• Integrate and experiment with GenAI APIs (OpenAI, Claude, proprietary LLMs) and agent/tool frameworks; implement retrieval augmented generation and vector database pipelines where useful.
• Develop occasional cross platform front ends (React, Next.js, Flutter) to showcase prototypes and MVPs.  

2. Product & Innovation

• Rapid prototype novel audience intelligence or ad tech concepts for new business pitches; evolve proofs of concept into scalable products.
• Collaborate with data scientists to operationalize predictive segmentation, targeting and measurement models.
• Embed observability, monitoring and automated CI/CD so experiments can harden into production quickly.

3. Enablement & Leadership

• Act as the technical lead within the squad: set coding standards, review PRs and mentor engineers.
• Translate complex AI/ML ideas into clear narratives for creative, media and C suite audiences.
• Contribute to hackathons, design thinking sprints and CoreAI product road mapping initiatives

Qualifications

• 6+years professional softwareengineering experience (or 4+years with a relevant advanced degree).
• Expertlevel Python plus proficiency in at least one additional modern language (TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Go, Dart, etc.).
• Handson experience calling or finetuning GenAI/LLM APIs (e.g., GPT4o, Claude, Gemini) and integrating them into userfacing or servicelayer applications.
• Working knowledge of frontend or mobile frameworks (React, Next.js, Flutter, etc.).
• Prior work with AIagent orchestration, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, PGVector) or LangChain/LlamaIndex.
• Experience deploying models or apps in Databricks and using MLflow or similar MLOps tooling.
• Familiarity with marketingtech or adtech domains, including identity graphs, segmentation and measurement.
• Thrives in fastmoving, ambiguous environments; balances strategic vision with handson execution.

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Difference" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com.

Compensation Range: $87,210 - $137,195 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 10/20/2025.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Veterans Encouraged to Apply.

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 Compensation Range: USD $87,210.00 - USD $137,195.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 8/31/2025.Employment Type: OTHER