Realtime ML Platform Engineer (Backend) - Equity

Sciforium

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 170,000 - 230,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401k plan
Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
Flexible time off
Competitive salary and equity

Job summary

Sciforium is a rapidly growing AI infrastructure company building a high-performance model serving platform that runs multimodal AI models at scale. This role focuses on low‑level systems, runtime execution, and distributed infrastructure to deliver a fast, reliable engine for real‑time AI applications.

You will work with C++, Python, and modern languages, collaborate with ML researchers and systems engineers, and help maintain production services with strong testing and documentation practices.

Qualifications

  • 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.

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.

Skills

C++
Python
Go
Rust

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

Tools

Kubernetes
Containerization
CUDA

Job description

Sciforium is a rapidly growing AI infrastructure company building a high-performance model serving platform that runs multimodal AI models at scale. This role focuses on low‑level systems, runtime execution, and distributed infrastructure to deliver a fast, reliable engine for real‑time AI applications.

You will work with C++, Python, and modern languages, collaborate with ML researchers and systems engineers, and help maintain production services with strong testing and documentation practices.

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