Software Engineer, Backend
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Role Overview
This role offers a unique opportunity to work on the core systems that power Sciforium’s multimodal AI models. You’ll help build the model serving platform working across C++, Python, runtime execution, and distributed infrastructure to create a fast, reliable engine for real-time AI applications.
You’ll gain hands-on experience with performance engineering, learn how large AI models are optimized and deployed at scale, and collaborate closely with ML researchers and experienced systems engineers. If you enjoy low-level programming, care deeply about performance, and want exposure to the full AI stack, this role provides both high-impact work and strong growth potential.
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Role Overview
This role offers a unique opportunity to work on the core systems that power Sciforium’s multimodal AI models. You’ll help build the model serving platform working across C++, Python, runtime execution, and distributed infrastructure to create a fast, reliable engine for real-time AI applications.
You’ll gain hands-on experience with performance engineering, learn how large AI models are optimized and deployed at scale, and collaborate closely with ML researchers and experienced systems engineers. If you enjoy low-level programming, care deeply about performance, and want exposure to the full AI stack, this role provides both high-impact work and strong growth potential.
Key Responsibilities
- Build the model serving platform, including API, Control Plane, Billing, Monitoring, and distributed inference features.
- Collaborate with ML researchers to integrate new multimodal models into production workflows.
- Write reliable, maintainable code with strong testing and documentation practices.
- Provide operational support for keeping our production services highly performant, available and reliable
- Help troubleshoot complex issues across runtime, service, and GPU layers, working closely with other engineers.
Must-Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 3+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on infrastructure or machine learning systems.
- Strong proficiency in C++/Python/Go/Rust
- Experience with Kubernetes, Containerization
- Experience in building large scale ML/MLOps infrastructure
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering and ML teams.
- Comfortable working from the office and contributing to a fast-moving, high-ownership team culture.
Nice to Have
Experience with ML systems engineering, open source inference engine like vLLM, Sglang, or TRT-LLM
Proficiency in CUDA or ROCm and experience with GPU profiling tools
Contributions to open-source ML or HPC infrastructure
Why Join Us
Opportunity to build frontier-scale AI infrastructure powering next-generation LLMs and multimodal models.
Work with top-tier engineers and researchers across systems, GPUs, and ML frameworks.
Tackle high-impact performance and scalability challenges in training and inference.
Access state-of-the-art GPU clusters, datasets, and tooling.
Opportunity to publish, patent, and push the boundaries of modern AI
Join a culture of innovation, ownership, and fast execution in a rapidly scaling AI organization.
Benefits include
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k plan
- Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
- Flexible time off
- Competitive salary and equity
Equal opportunity
Sciforium is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
About Sciforium
AI infrastructure company building multimodal models and high-efficiency serving software for developers and teams.
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