# Machine Learning Backend Engineer / MLOps (AWS, Python, C#) (m/w/d)

Role summary This position is ideal for a mid-level software engineer specializing in cloud-native backend development to join the exocad Machine Learning team as a Backend Engineer, owning the production services that put ML models in front of users. Working closely with ML researchers, frontend engineers, and product teams across sites, you'll extend and operate the model serving layer behind exocad's dental CAD workflows: inference APIs, deployment and rollout automation, versioning, monitoring, and the performance and cost tuning that keeps them healthy under real workloads. You'll also contribute to the upstream training and labeling infrastructure that feeds them. This role focuses on the engineering that turns research prototypes into reliable, observable, traceable production systems, and on the operational discipline that keeps model behavior predictable release over release. Key Responsibilities Maintain, extend, and operate the production services that serve exocad’s ML models as part of the exocad AI Design product. Own model deployment end to end: containerized builds, versioning, staged rollout, rollback, and reproducible release artifacts. Automate provisioning and

- **Id**: 943546
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/align-technology-inc-ai-backend-engineer-mwd>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Darmstadt, Germany
- **Countries**: DE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-14T19:39:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-20
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T13:01:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 55
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3418
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Company events, Flexible schedule, Sports activities
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Dental Products & Labs

## Company

- **Id**: 678151
- **Name**: Align Technology
- **Domain**: aligntech.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/align-tech>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Pinpoint

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 10
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 16
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Amazon SageMaker** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Splunk** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 55

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-15T19:39:52Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 16
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.56
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 55
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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