Software Engineer II - AI & Data Engineering
AI Summary
Software Engineer II focuses on designing, developing, and deploying production-grade AI/ML systems, data pipelines, and MLOps-enabled backend services across cloud environments.
About this role
Devsinc is looking to hire a highly skilled Software Engineer II – AI & Data Engineering with ** 2.5+ years of professional experience** in building and deploying ** production-grade AI/ML systems, LLM-powered applications, and scalable data engineering solutions.**
This role requires strong hands-on expertise in AI/ML Engineering, MLOps, Backend Engineering, and Data Engineering , with ownership across the complete lifecycle, from designing ** LLM applications, RAG pipelines, embeddings, and inference systems to building ** ETL/ELT pipelines, cloud-native infrastructure, and real-time data processing architectures.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, fine-tune, and deploy AI/ML models, including LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector search architectures, and inference systems for real-world business use cases.
- Build and optimize high-performance Python-based APIs, microservices, and backend services for AI workloads, while collaborating with ** Engineering teams, Project Managers, and business stakeholders** to deliver scalable, production-grade AI solutions.
- Design and implement MLOps workflows and cloud-native infrastructure across ** AWS, Azure, and GCP , including ** experiment tracking, model versioning, deployment automation, monitoring, and model optimization through hyperparameter tuning, quantization, and inference optimization.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for structured and unstructured datasets.
- Build and optimize **data transformation, cleansing, validation, and quality frameworks , while working with ** distributed and streaming technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Kinesis, and Pub/Sub for real-time data processing.
- Ensure reliability, scalability, security, and cost optimization across AI and data infrastructure, while documenting ** architecture decisions, technical workflows, and engineering standards **.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in **Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI, Data Science **, or related field.
- 2.5+ years of hands-on experience in ** AI/ML Engineering, Data Engineering, or Backend Systems **.
- Strong proficiency in **Python and SQL **, with hands-on experience in ** production-grade AI/data systems **, relational/non-relational databases, and AI/ML libraries such as ** PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, Hugging Face, Pandas, and NumPy **.
- Hands-on experience with data engineering frameworks such as ** Apache Spark, Airflow, dbt, or Databricks **.
- Strong understanding of ML fundamentals, neural networks, NLP, model optimization, and hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, and fine-tuning techniques (LoRA, PEFT, QLoRA).
- Proven experience in deploying **AI models through APIs, microservices, and real-time inference systems , along with ** MLOps tools such as MLflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI, and Weights & Biases.
- Strong exposure to MLOps platforms and cloud ecosystems such as ** MLflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI, Weights & Biases, AWS, Azure, and GCP** for model training, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
- Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines for containerization, orchestration, scalable deployments, and production environment management.
- Strong understanding of **distributed systems, machine learning fundamentals, data architecture, security, and scalable system design **.