AI Backend Engineer (m/w/d)

Role summary

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain, extend, and operate the production services that serve exocad’s ML models as part of the exocad AI Design product.
• Own model deployment end to end: containerized builds, versioning, staged rollout, rollback, and reproducible release artifacts.
• Automate provisioning and deployment with Terraform and AWS-native tooling so environments stay consistent and releases repeatable.
• Build monitoring into serving systems for latency, throughput, resource utilization, and error rates, and act on what the telemetry shows.
• Collaborate with engineering, and product teams to deliver compliant and business-aligned cloud and data solutions.
• Own deployments in both our AWS global and AWS China environments, partnering with our regional experts on data residency requirements.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or similar education.
• Experience: 4+ years in backend engineering, including 2+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating systems on AWS.
• Skills: Strong proficiency in Python, and C#; solid grounding in systems design and distributed systems; solid understanding of AWS services (SageMaker, EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, RDS); experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD automation (Jenkins); hands-on experience with Docker and containerized services.
• Communication: Ability to clearly document and explain technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Teamwork: Proven ability to collaborate effectively across global, cross-functional teams.
• Product Mindset: Ability to understand what our customers really need and build accordingly.

Complementary skills

• General understanding of machine learning concepts, training and evaluation workflows.
• Experience with GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools such as Splunk, Datadog, or Prometheus.

Benefits

• Exciting and varied tasks in a dynamic and growing software company
• Flat hierarchies and fast decision-making
• A positive working environment that values both freedom and responsibility
• Strong team spirit and a very pleasant atmosphere
• Modern offices, workstations and the latest technologies
• Flexible working hours
• Training and development opportunities
• Company events
• Sports activities and work-life balance initiatives
• Free drinks, fruit and snacks
• Canteen with in-house cook
• Good transport connections
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