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Backend Engineer, AI (Agent Systems)

Protingent
  • -, WA
  • Remote
  • Quick Apply
30+ days ago

Job Description

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.

About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.

Numbers & Facts

Location-, WA (
Remote
)

Skills

  • Aerospace and Defenseunmatched
  • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
  • Cachingunmatched
  • Clean Technologiesunmatched
  • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
  • Debugging Skillsunmatched
  • Desktop PCunmatched
  • Distributed Computingunmatched
  • Dockerunmatched
  • High Throughputunmatched
  • Incident Responseunmatched
  • Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
  • Medical Equipmentunmatched
  • NoSQLunmatched
  • Node.jsunmatched
  • Open Sourceunmatched
  • Performance Managementunmatched
  • Production Controlunmatched
  • Production Systemsunmatched
  • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
  • SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
  • System Operationsunmatched
  • Systems Reliabilityunmatched
  • User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched

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