AI Engineer (Backend)
Skills
About the role
This is a remote AI Engineer role focused on backend development for a professional with 5 to 9 years of experience. You will build production AI services, APIs, retrieval pipelines, and agent workflows using backend engineering practices and cloud infrastructure. The role supports AI-powered products across a geographically distributed company.
What you’ll do
- Develop scalable backend services and APIs for AI products.
- Build LLM, generative-AI, RAG, and agent-based applications.
- Connect applications to hosted and open-source language models.
- Create retrieval pipelines using embeddings, vector databases, and document processing.
- Design APIs and microservices for high-volume workloads.
- Build data-processing and inference pipelines.
- Add monitoring, logging, testing, security, and performance controls.
- Deploy and operate services on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Work with product, frontend, data, and ML teams on end-to-end features.
What they’re looking for
- Five to nine years of experience.
- Strong backend engineering skills with Python, Java, Golang, or Node.js.
- Knowledge of REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and system design.
- Hands-on experience with generative AI or LLMs.
- Experience with RAG, AI agents, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector search, or model inference.
- Experience with relational databases, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, CI/CD, and cloud platforms.
Nice to have
- Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or equivalent agent frameworks.
- Experience with AWS.
What’s on offer
- Remote work from home.
- Work with a distributed team across North America, Asia, and Europe.
- The posting does not state compensation.
Questions about this role
Is this AI Engineer role remote?
Yes. The role is listed as work from home.
How much experience is required?
The posting lists 5–9 years of experience.
Which backend languages are mentioned?
The requirements name Python, Java, Golang, and Node.js.
How much does the role pay?
The posting does not state a salary.
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