Senior API Engineer (Python)

Job description

Overview About the Role & Team: IDC is building the next generation of AI-powered intelligence platforms that transform how technology decisions get made. Our platform re-imagines the way decision-makers discover and interact with trusted research and data, and is foundational to IDC's future. We are looking for a Senior API Engineer to join the Channel & Integration Pod. You will be a senior individual contributor building the API gateway that connects external AI assistants to IDC's intelligence platform. Your work spans the protocol layer, tool definitions, schema validation, authentication, and the adapters that bridge the gateway to internal data and search services. You will work closely with the pod lead to shape the gateway's design and implementation. This is a role where your decisions about API contracts, auth flows, and output formatting directly determine the quality of the experience for every external integration partner. What You’ll Do: - Build a standards-based API gateway that enables external AI assistants to query IDC's intelligence platform - Implement protocol handling, tool registries, and schema validation - Build API adapters to internal data and search ser...