Staff Backend Engineer – AI

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StreamAI, Real-time APIs
Remote (Europe)Full-TimeStaff
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Experience
5+ years
Required Skills
AWSPythonArtificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingGCPMachine LearningData engineeringGoTerraform

Requirements

  • 5+ years of production-level Python engineering experience.
  • Hands-on machine learning experience, specifically with supervised fine-tuning and post-training of models.
  • Familiarity with the modern fine-tuning and serving toolchain, e.g., Unsloth, Fireworks, Baseten, or equivalents.
  • Cloud experience with at least one major provider (GCP or AWS), including infrastructure-as-code with Terraform.
  • Proven experience running ML-based products in production: deployment, monitoring, retraining, and iteration.
  • Experience designing and operating data pipelines for training and evaluation.
  • Demonstrated ownership and track record of driving ambiguous problems to resolution.
  • Strong communication skills and comfort working in a small, distributed team.
  • Preferred: Visible open-source footprint (libraries authored/maintained).
  • Preferred: Experience with Go.
  • Preferred: Deep understanding of Python concurrency and asyncio.
  • Preferred: Experience with low-latency inference systems.

Responsibilities

  • Own the development, fine-tuning, and evaluation of in-house AI models from dataset design through to production deployment.
  • Run supervised fine-tuning and post-training experiments and establish benchmarks for model performance.
  • Build and maintain data pipelines for model training, ensuring high data quality and reproducibility.
  • Deploy models to production, optimizing for latency, cost, and reliability at high scale.
  • Set technical direction and define the roadmap for AI initiatives.
  • Collaborate across engineering teams to integrate models into Go-based APIs and infrastructure.
  • Contribute to the open-source ecosystem and mentor the team through code reviews and best practices.
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