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With innovation, qualityandlogisticsas the backbone of the company, Sourceability’scutting-edgeproducts and services expeditethe procurement process across a wide range of industries, including communications/cellular, consumer electronics, and auto manufacturing. \nWe are looking for a Senior Python Engineer to build and maintain backend services and production ML applications across Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and AI automation.\nYour work may include processing images and documents, extracting structured information from text, integrating model inference, or supporting semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Project assignments will reflect business priorities and your experience.\nThis is a hands-on senior individual contributor role spanning design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support. You will work closely with Principal Scientists, Team Leads and Architects, Product and Delivery Managers, QA, DevOps, and data specialists to turn models and prototypes into reliable business capabilities.\nThis role is hybrid from our Budapest, Hungary office. \nInsight on Your Impact:\nDesign, build, and maintain Python backend services, REST APIs, and asynchronous or batch processing workflows.\nImprove existing applications through safe, incremental changes that address production defects, technical debt, and maintainability.\nIntegrate CV, NLP, and LLM capabilities into applications, implementing input validation, preprocessing, inference, and structured output handling.\nBuild data and integration pipelines connecting images, documents, text, databases, model services, and enterprise applications.\nWork with Principal Scientists to implement agreed model interfaces, evaluation workflows, and production readiness requirements.\nDevelop automated unit, integration, API, and regression tests, including checks against representative data and expected model behavior.\nMake deployments reproducible and support safe updates through versioned model artifacts and configuration, CI/CD, and appropriate release controls.\nImprove reliability and performance through logging, metrics, profiling, and optimization of latency, throughput, memory use, and processing cost.\nInvestigate production incidents and unexpected outputs, distinguishing application, integration, data, and model-related issues with the relevant specialists.\nContribute to technical design, secure development practices, documentation, code reviews, and mentoring within agreed architectural standards and delivery priorities.\n Your Qualifications, Your Influence:\n5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial hands-on experience developing and supporting Python backend applications.\nStrong Python fundamentals, including object-oriented design, asynchronous programming, data structures, and maintainable software design.\nExperience designing REST APIs and using a Python backend framework such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django.\nStrong SQL skills and experience with relational databases, data transformation, validation, and integration workflows.\nPractical experience integrating ML models into production applications, with experience in at least one relevant area such as computer vision, NLP, or LLM applications.\nUnderstanding of inference workflows, preprocessing and postprocessing, and how changes to data, models, or configuration can affect application behavior.\nExperience writing automated tests with tools such as pytest, diagnosing production issues, and improving application performance.\nWorking experience with Git, Docker, Linux, CI/CD, and deploying applications in a cloud environment.\nUnderstanding of API security, authentication and authorization, logging, monitoring, and reliable error handling.\nAbility to work independently, explain technical trade-offs, and communicate clearly in English across locations and disciplines.\nPreferred Skills and Technical Familiarity:\nExperience in one or more of the following areas would be valuable:\nComputer vision, OCR, document or image-processing pipelines, and tools such as OpenCV.\nNLP and LLM applications, including information extraction, text classification, embeddings, and Hugging Face Transformers.\nML frameworks and inference tooling such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or ONNX.\nSemantic search, vector databases, RAG, or knowledge graph integration.\nModel serving, MLOps, evaluation automation, model versioning, and production model monitoring.\nIntegration with enterprise platforms, including .NET-based applications, or experience in supply chain, procurement, and electronic component distribution.\nSuccess in the First 90 Days:\nUnderstand your assigned services, business workflows, data and model dependencies, deployment processes, and production risks; 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