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Senior AI Engineer - ChicMic Studios
AI Engineer
Senior AI Engineer building and scaling a production‑grade, backend‑focused platform for image understanding, scene reconstruction, and automated media generation using Python, FastAPI, async processing, and cloud-native technologies.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement high‑performance, scalable backend services for object detection, segmentation, and 3D reconstruction pipelines.
- Develop asynchronous APIs using FastAPI (or similar) to handle large‑scale media processing workloads.
- Collaborate with AI/ML, frontend, and DevOps teams to integrate model inference, data pipelines, and monitoring solutions.
- Containerize services with Docker and orchestrate deployments on Kubernetes clusters in AWS.
- Ensure system reliability, observability, and security through logging, tracing, and automated testing.
Requirements
- 3–8 years of professional experience in Python backend development, with strong knowledge of asynchronous programming (asyncio, FastAPI, or similar).
- Proven experience designing, deploying, and scaling microservices in cloud environments (AWS) using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Hands‑on familiarity with AI/ML workflows for image understanding, including model serving and data preprocessing.
- Solid understanding of system architecture, API design, and performance optimization for compute‑intensive tasks.
- Ability to work collaboratively in cross‑functional teams and communicate complex technical concepts clearly.
Skills
pythonfastapidockerkubernetesaws