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Where our Forward Deployed Engineers embed with customers to deliver solutions on the ground, this role builds the systems that make those solutions possible at scale: model-serving pipelines, inference and orchestration layers, data pipelines, and the APIs and microservices that connect Generative AI, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning models to real enterprise environments.\nThis role is a blend of backend software engineering, ML infrastructure, and systems architecture. 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Working proficiency in Python is a plus for ML/model integration work.\n\nHands-on experience building and operating production backend systems at scale - distributed systems, databases, message queues.\n\nExperience integrating ML or Generative AI models (LLMs, multimodal models) into backend services - inference, orchestration, and evaluation.\n\nSolid understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).\n\nExperience designing and operating data pipelines (batch and/or streaming) across structured and unstructured data.\n\nHands-on experience building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems and AI memory architectures - retrieval pipelines, vector stores, context management, and long-term/session memory for LLM applications.\n\nStrong grasp of system design fundamentals: scalability, reliability, security, and observability.\n\nComfortable working cross-functionally with ML engineers, product, and customer-facing 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