Backend AI Engineer - Inference & Orchestration

United States Digital Space LLC; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Backend Engineer, AI, to own the inference and orchestration layer that powers every AI interaction in our product. You will build and operate production systems that turn model capability into fast, stable APIs used across mobile and desktop clients.

You will design inference pipelines, orchestration layers, and service boundaries around models, while owning production concerns like monitoring, logging, and incident response to keep latency low and

Qualifications

• Experience building production-grade backend services.
• Strong understanding of low-latency, high-throughput systems.
• Familiarity with AI inference patterns (LLMs, embeddings, multimodal).

Responsibilities

• Design inference pipelines and orchestration layers around models.
• Own production concerns: monitoring, logging, and incident response.
• Optimize latency and throughput across inference, caching, batching, and streaming.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Python

Kubernetes

Docker

LLMs

Monitoring

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PyTorch

OpenAI API

SQL/NoSQL

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Backend Engineer, AI, to own the inference and orchestration layer that powers every AI interaction in our product. You will build and operate production systems that turn model capability into fast, stable APIs used across mobile and desktop clients.

You will design inference pipelines, orchestration layers, and service boundaries around models, while owning production concerns like monitoring, logging, and incident response to keep latency low and