Lead Platform Engineer for AI/ML Workloads

True Talent Solutions Partners

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 220,000 - 320,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

True Talent Solutions Partners is seeking a senior platform/backend engineer to own the document processing platform in our SF Bay Area office. You will partner with ML engineers to keep workloads fast, reliable, and cost-efficient, building scalable infrastructure and production pipelines.

The role requires 5+ years in platform or backend engineering, with expertise in Python or Go/Rust and strong cloud experience.

Qualifications

5+ years of platform or backend engineering experience.
Proficiency in Python, or strong Go or Rust with willingness to work in Python.
Experience building and scaling core infrastructure, task orchestration, and reliable platforms.
Application-level engineering experience in addition to infrastructure work, plus on-call experience.
Background in a startup or fast-moving environment with scale.
Experience with cloud infrastructure and model-serving optimization is valuable.

Responsibilities

Own and improve the platform that runs document processing workloads, focusing on speed, reliability, and cost efficiency.
Collaborate with ML teams to serve in-house models efficiently and integrate them into production pipelines.
Build and maintain infrastructure for databases, task orchestration, workload scheduling, and cloud deployments.
Improve distributed systems as workload volume grows, addressing latency, reliability, and scaling challenges.
Join an on-call rotation and take end-to-end ownership of platform health.