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Backend Engineer, AI (Agent Systems)
Job Description
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.
- 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.
Meet Your Recruiter
Laura Duarte
I have been in Technical Recruiting for over 20 years. I specialize in hiring people for technology, engineering, manufacturing, and operations jobs for various exciting industries nationwide, such as consumer electronics, medical devices, space/aerospace/avionics, and nuclear-clean energy. I will listen to you and guide you through the entire job application and interviewing process in a fun and clearly communicated way. My philosophy has always been to be an enthusiastic learner of new technologies and keep the big picture in mind while continuing to be honest, organized, and proactive. I am passionate about helping others find an exciting and fulfilling job that aligns with their goals. I am diversity-focused and especially love helping under-represented folks & Veterans into STEM careers. I approach every job seeker with empathy, equity, and respect.