Senior AI Software Engineer, Python
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About the Role
The Senior AI Software Engineer, Python will be responsible for making Scorpion’s Conversational Intelligence Platform production-grade by building reliable, observable, and scalable infrastructure for real-time AI workloads, including LLM orchestration, streaming responses, and event-driven messaging across multiple communication channels.
This role owns the runtime reliability of systems that process LLM inference pipelines, manage backpressure across async workloads, and maintain clean service boundaries with downstream teams. Operating within an established architecture, the Senior AI Software Engineer, Python is responsible for the operational excellence required to make the platform production-ready.
What Your Success Will Look Like
- Own the reliability of the event-driven messaging layer, including backpressure management, idempotency, dead-letter handling, and retry strategies.
- Build and operate the infrastructure that runs LLM orchestration workloads at scale.
- Own the operational data layer for the CI runtime, including state management, session persistence, and real-time data access patterns.
- Own observability for the CI platform, including structured logging, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry), and error tracking (Sentry).
- Maintain and harden the interfaces between CI and downstream platforms, including contract testing, versioning, and failure handling.
- Conduct code reviews and mentor team members on Python engineering practices and production readiness.
- Own production support for CI infrastructure, including on-call responsibilities and incident response.
Who You Are And What You Bring
- Experience
- 5+ Years of Experience or Relevant Experience.
- Developing production-grade Python services at scale.
- Operating real-time or high-throughput infrastructure supporting AI/ML
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