Senior AI Engineer

The role

This person will design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI-powered backend systems. They will integrate LLMs and traditional ML models into scalable architectures and optimize vector databases for RAG pipelines.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI-powered backend systems.
• Integrate LLMs and traditional ML models into performant, scalable architectures.
• Integrate and optimize vector databases for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and other traditional ML queries.
• Write clean, well-structured, and testable Python code following best practices.
• Think about performance and ensure optimal decision making to reduce latency.
• Build hybrid architectures that balance LLM calls with traditional ML.
• Debug complex, cross-layer issues spanning backend, AI inference, and UI integration.
• Conduct thorough dev testing before QA handoff to ensure production reliability.
• Collaborate with product, backend, and frontend engineers to deliver cohesive solutions.

Required qualifications

• 3–5+ years professional backend engineering experience in Python, FastAPI or Flask, and background processing.
• Masters Degree in related field
• Proven record of deploying Python applications to production.
• Strong grasp of software design patterns
• Strong understanding of backend performance, parallel processing in background jobs and multi-threading
• Proficiency in performance tuning specially for heavy AI models
• Applied machine learning experience — training, evaluating, and maintaining small task-specific models.
• Familiarity with LLM integration, prompt engineering, and context window optimization.
• Proven ability to debug AI behavior, identify root causes, and make targeted fixes.
• Strong testing discipline for both backend and AI components.
• Experience with background processing with Celery or other major libraries
• Experience with monitoring APIs and background processing

Nice to have

• experience with Docker
• understanding of CI/D
• deployment automation
• Kubernetes

Benefits

• Benefits Package
• time off
• Holiday pay

About the company

novoed is a fast-growing product company integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities into its core offering. Their AI work spans task-specific ML models, large language model (LLM) integration, and agentic systems.