Senior AI Platform Engineer

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Role - Senior AI Platform Engineer

Location - Hybrid for Rawalpindi/Islamabad
Remote - Other Cities

Role Summary
We are seeking a Senior AI Platform Engineer to design and implement high-performance backend systems and AI infrastructure. You'll work on low-latency online services or intelligent components such as Knowledge Graphs to power our AI products. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy building production-grade systems and working with modern cloud-native technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain low-latency backend services for AI applications
• Build and deploy scalable cloud-native systems using AWS services
• Work closely with AI researchers, data engineers, and product teams to integrate backend systems with AI workflows
• Ensure code quality, service reliability, and infrastructure observability
• Contribute to best practices in backend engineering and DevOps

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in backend or infrastructure engineering
   (Internships and personal projects not included)
• Strong coding skills in Python or Java
• Proven experience building high-performance online services
   (sub-millisecond latency preferred; AI-related workloads a plus)
• Solid understanding of Knowledge Graph technologies, including:
  • Graph databases (e.g., Neo4j, Amazon Neptune)
  • Metadata ontologies
  • Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Practical experience with cloud-native services, including:
  • AWS Lambda, S3, ECS, Batch
• Track record of owning services through development, deployment, and monitorin

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
   

Exposure to cloud-agnostic orchestration using Kubernetes