Sr. AI Engineer (AI/ML Inference)

you’ll bring

• Systems & Backend Engineering: Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Python, plus experience designing maintainable APIs, services, and integration layers. We’re open to candidates who are strongest in backend/platform engineering or who have grown from ML into systems.
• Production ML & Streaming: 5+ years of experience building or operating production software, including ML-backed systems, real-time services, speech applications, streaming media, or other latency-sensitive systems.
• Model Serving & Inference: Hands-on experience deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting ML models in production, including model serving, inference optimization, resource management, and safe model and version rollouts.
• Cloud & Distributed Systems: Experience with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems, as well as familiarity with containers, orchestration, service networking, CI/CD, and GCP.
• Reliability & Operations: Strong understanding of observability, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, and availability and latency SLAs for customer-facing systems.
• Cross-Functional Technical Leadership: Demonstrated ability to work closely with ML scientists, MLOps and inference engineers, and product teams, mentor teammates, and make pragmatic trade-offs across quality, reliability, latency, scale, and cost.

For exceptional talent based in British Columbia, Canada the target base salary range for this position is posted below.

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• Work at the center of the AI transformation in business communications
• Build and ship agentic AI products that are redefining how companies operate
• Join a team where AI amplifies every employee’s impact
• Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and real opportunities for growth

We believe in investing in our people.

Dialpad offers competitive benefits and perks, cutting-edge AI tools, and a robust training program that help you reach your full potential.

We have designed our offices to be inclusive, offering a vibrant environment to cultivate collaboration and connection.

Our exceptional culture, repeatedly recognized as a Great Place to Work, ensures that every employee feels valued and empowered to contribute to our collective success.

Don’t meet every single requirement?

If you’re excited about this role and possess the fundamental traits, drive, and strong ambition we seek, but your experience doesn’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply.

Dialpad is an equal-opportunity employer.

We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment.