Senior Software Engineer, Agentic AI

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About the Role

We are looking for aBackend Engineer with experience in Machine Learning and Agentic AI systemsto help design and scale the infrastructure behind intelligent, autonomous applications. You'll work at the intersection ofbackend engineering, applied ML, and AI agent orchestration- building the APIs, data pipelines, and runtime frameworks that power next-generation AI-driven workflows.

If you enjoy solving complex distributed systems challenges, experimenting with cutting-edge ML/LLM techniques, and pushing the boundaries of how AI agents interact with humans and software, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and scale backend services that support ML-driven and agentic AI applications.
• Design APIs and microservices that integrate LLMs, vector databases, and knowledge retrieval systems.
• Build infrastructure for AI agents (task planning, tool use, orchestration, state management).
• Ensure backend systems are reliable, performant, and secure at scale.
• Develop monitoring, logging, and observability for agent behaviors and ML pipelines.
• Work closely with product and design teams to translate requirements into scalable backend solutions.
• Stay current with emerging research in LLMs, multi-agent systems, and autonomous AI.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Strong backend engineering skills withPython
• Experience withcloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in buildingAPIs, distributed systems, and data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience withLLMs, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Milvus), and ML deployment frameworks.
• Understanding ofagentic AI concepts(tool calling, memory, planning, reasoning).
• Familiarity with ML frameworks such asPyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, LlamaIndex.
• Solid knowledge of databases (SQL and NoSQL) and event-driven architectures.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity withLangGraph,AutoGen, or other agentic frameworks.
• Contributions to open-source ML or AI infrastructure projects.
• Exposure to MLOps tooling (MLflow, Weights & Biases, Ray, Prefect, Airflow).
• Background in security for AI systems (guardrails, prompt injection defense, data privacy).
• Experience withreinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, or fine-tuning LLMs.

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