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Backend AI Engineer

CirrusLabs
Bangalore

Job Description

Required Skills and Technologies

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with strong backend ownership.

• Hands-on AI/ML engineering experience with LLM systems in production.

• Deep practical knowledge of Agentic AI frameworks and multi-step workflow engines.

• Strong experience with RAG architecture and vector search technologies (FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, Milvus).

• Hands-on experience in LLM training and fine-tuning workflows (instruction tuning, domain adaptation, PEFT/LoRA/QLoRA, and parameter-efficient methods).

• Python (primary) with API frameworks such as FastAPI/Flask and asynchronous programming patterns.

• Containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes (Helm, ingress, secrets, HPA, resource quotas, monitoring).

• CI/CD ownership using GitHub Actions/GitLab CI/Jenkins and infrastructure-as-code patterns (Terraform/Ansible/Helm).

• Datastores and caching: PostgreSQL, Redis, and object storage, with exposure to NoSQL where needed.

• Cloud fundamentals on AWS/GCP/Azure (compute, container registries, IAM, networking, managed databases).

• Experience with observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/Opensearch, alerting).

Preferred / Plus

• Experience with MLflow, DVC, Weights & Biases, or equivalent experiment and dataset lifecycle tooling.

• Experience with serving stacks: Triton, vLLM, TorchServe, Text Generation Inference, BentoML, or equivalent.

• Experience with agent memory stores, retrieval quality benchmarking, and policy/safety layers for autonomous agents.

• Familiarity with Terraform, ArgoCD, or GitOps workflows for AI platform delivery.

• Security/compliance and governance awareness for AI systems (data privacy, prompt-injection controls, and auditability).


What We Expect

• Own complex AI backend features from design to production with measurable impact.

• Design systems for reliability, observability, and cost-aware scaling.

• Drive trade-off decisions across model quality, latency, and infrastructure costs.

• Communicate clearly with engineering, product, and leadership, and mentor other team members.


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