Job Title: Backend Engineer, AI (Agent Systems)
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct hire Backend Engineer, AI (Agent Systems)
with our client that is fully remote.
Job Description:- As a Backend Engineer, AI, you own the inference and orchestration layer that powers every AI interaction in the product.
- Your work sits between models and users, where latency, correctness, reliability, and cost directly impact real-world experience.
- You will build and operate production systems that turn model capability into fast, stable, observable APIs used across mobile and desktop clients.
Job Responsibilities:- Build and operate backend systems that serve AI-powered features in production.
- Design inference pipelines, orchestration layers, and service boundaries around models.
- Own production concerns: monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response.
- Optimize latency and throughput across inference, caching, batching, and streaming
- Backend systems run reliably at scale, handling production AI traffic with low latency and high throughput.
- APIs are stable, clear, and support seamless integration with frontend and ML systems.
- Production incidents are quickly detected, diagnosed, and resolved, minimizing user impact.
- Iterative improvements based on real usage continuously increase system performance and reliability.
Job Qualifications:- Strong backend engineering fundamentals in production environments.
- Experience running high-throughput, low-latency services.
- Familiarity with AI inference patterns (LLMs, embeddings, multimodal).
- Comfortable debugging distributed systems under load.
- Bias toward shipping and learning from production behavior.
Must Have:- Python
- NodeJs
- Pytorch
- OpenAI / Anthropic / open-source LLMs
- SQl & noSQL
- Kubernetes
- Docker.
Job Details:- Job Type: Direct Hire
- Pay Range: Market Rate
- Location: Fully Remote.
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