Software Development Engineer

Junior Software Engineer (AI & Document Systems)

Location: Ireland (Hybrid - Dublin area)

Type: Full-time

About the role

Foxit is hiring a Junior Software Engineer to join our Ireland-based team building AI-powered, document-centric applications. This role is a strong fit for a recent graduate or early-career engineer with solid Python fundamentals and genuine curiosity about LLMs and document systems.

You'll learn by doing-working alongside senior engineers to build and improve software that processes, manages, and analyses documents (especially PDFs) using modern AI techniques.

What you'll do

• Develop and maintain Python-based applications and services
• Support delivery of AI-powered features using LLMs in document workflows
• Assist with prompting and context management for document-focused use cases
• Contribute to document ingestion and management workflows
• Help process and extract information from PDF documents (text + structure basics)
• Work with embeddings and introductory semantic search concepts
• Write clean, tested, and well-documented code
• Collaborate via code reviews, team discussions, and iterative delivery
• Take direction from team leads and grow your skills through mentorship

What you'll bring (required)

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering (or related)
• Strong Python skills and good software fundamentals
• Foundational understanding of AI and LLM concepts
• Exposure to prompting and LLM-driven workflows (coursework, projects, internship, etc.)
• Basic knowledge of document management concepts
• Familiarity with PDF structure and text extraction concepts
• Strong problem-solving mindset and willingness to learn quickly

Nice to have (bonus)

• Introductory experience with RAG concepts
• Familiarity with embeddings and/or vector databases
• Exposure to vLLM, Ollama, or similar tooling
• Basic understanding of REST APIs
• Awareness of data privacy and GDPR principles

What success looks like

• You ramp quickly on our codebase and ship reliable improvements
• You collaborate well (communication, reviews, asking good questions)
• You build confidence in LLM/document workflows while strengthening engineering fundamentals