Entry-Level AI Software Engineer — LLM Platform Builder

Patapsco.AI; Elkridge (MD); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Paid time off

Paid company holidays

Job summary

Patapsco.AI is seeking a Software Engineer to join a fast-moving AI startup building a distributed platform for AI workloads, including LLM serving and fine-tuning. You will own projects, contribute to production readiness, and collaborate with a small team to deliver features end-to-end.

You will work with modern hardware and a Kubernetes-based AI lab, shaping architecture, and contributing to an open-source stack. A passion for learning and startup style work is essential.

Qualifications

• 0 to 3 years of professional software development experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field; or equivalent vocational experience
• High proficiency with developing CLI tools, libraries, and / or web-based applications using OOP or OOP-adjacent languages
• High proficiency with git
• Mastery of operating Unix (MacOS) or Linux from a shell
• Familiarity with modern AI and agentic engineering
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment
• Personal projects and/or contributions to open-source projects on GitHub or similar

Responsibilities

• Work with state-of-the-art hardware (e.g. H200 GPUs) in a small Kubernetes-based AI lab, the test bench for our platform
• Design, build, and maintain scalable front-end systems and back-end APIs that orchestrate and integrate with AI models
• Prototype, fine-tune, and deploy machine learning models (e.g. LLMs) using the platform we are building
• Collaborate with product team to bring AI-powered features to life based on user feedback
• Help shape the technical architecture and product roadmap in collaboration with the CTO
• Research and experiment with emerging AI technologies and integrate them into our stack when it makes sense
• Write clean, maintainable code and documentation
• Participate in weekly show-and-tell meetings with the product team showing recent accomplishments

Skills

CLI tools

Git

Unix/Linux

OOP

Go

Rust

Python

Front-end development

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

CI/CD pipelines

Operating with large language models

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Equivalent vocational experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Git

Job description

Patapsco.AI is seeking a Software Engineer to join a fast-moving AI startup building a distributed platform for AI workloads, including LLM serving and fine-tuning. You will own projects, contribute to production readiness, and collaborate with a small team to deliver features end-to-end.

You will work with modern hardware and a Kubernetes-based AI lab, shaping architecture, and contributing to an open-source stack. A passion for learning and startup style work is essential.