Applied AI Senior Engineer

Purple Drive

Job Location:

Sunnyvale, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 8 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Requirement Details

Backend/Systems Experience

3 years building production backend or distributed systems (pre-AI experience required)

Production AI Systems

Has shipped AI/LLM features serving real users at scale not just prototypes or demos

Agentic Systems

Has built AI agents skills tools or MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations

Python

Proficient for backend development

Secondary Language

Working knowledge of Go TypeScript or Rust

Cloud Infrastructure

Deep experience with AWS/GCP/Azure cost optimization compute decisions not just deployment

Container & Orchestration

Hands-on with Docker and Kubernetes can build deploy debug and scale services themselves

LLM Integration

Understands token economics context limits rate limiting structured outputs API failure modes

LLM Evaluation

Understands how to evaluate LLM outputs and the inherent challenges (non-determinism quality measurement regression detection)

Hands-On Engineer

Not just an architect writes code debugs production issues deploys their own work

Preferred Skills:

Built multi-step agentic workflows with tool use and function calling
Experience with agent orchestration frameworks (LangGraph CrewAI Claude Agent SDK Google ADK OpenAI ADK)
Built guardrails fallbacks or graceful degradation for AI systems
Streaming inference and async agent orchestration
Cost/latency optimization: caching batching prompt compression
ML observability tools: Langfuse Arize Braintrust W&B
Retrieval systems (vector search hybrid search) as a tool not the focus

Requirement Details Backend/Systems Experience 3 years building production backend or distributed systems (pre-AI experience required) Production AI Systems Has shipped AI/LLM features serving real users at scale not just prototypes or demos Agentic Systems Has built AI agents skills tools or MCP (...