Remote AI-Powered Backend Engineer (Python)

SHI; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Diversity commitment

Growth opportunities

Health & financial benefits

Remote/office flexibility

Job summary

SHI's Applied AI team is seeking a software engineer to build Python services, APIs, and data-driven AI-enabled applications across cloud and on-prem environments while collaborating with NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Google technologies. This remote, full-time opportunity is ideal for engineers who love solving complex problems, shipping production software, and learning new AI tech.

Responsibilities include designing scalable architectures, integrating AI capabilities, and contributing to front-end

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience building production applications.
• Strong Python development skills.
• Experience building APIs, backend services, and data-centric applications.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases.
• Experience with React or another modern web framework.
• Familiarity with cloud-native development, containers, source control, and CI/CD practices.
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies in a rapidly evolving environment.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Python-based services, APIs, and AI-enabled applications that solve real business problems.
• Build applications that process and present data from enterprise systems, databases, and external services.
• Integrate AI capabilities into production software using prompt orchestration, RAG, tool use, and agent-based workflows.
• Design application architectures that balance scalability, maintainability, security, and performance.
• Implement modern authentication and authorization patterns across application and API layers.
• Contribute across the full stack, including React-based user interfaces and data integration.
• Work with technologies and platforms across the Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, and broader AI ecosystems.

Skills

Python

APIs

SQL

React

Cloud-native

CI/CD

Communication

Travel

Problem-solving

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

NVIDIA AI software

Azure

Google Cloud

CUDA

Job description

SHI's Applied AI team is seeking a software engineer to build Python services, APIs, and data-driven AI-enabled applications across cloud and on-prem environments while collaborating with NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Google technologies. This remote, full-time opportunity is ideal for engineers who love solving complex problems, shipping production software, and learning new AI tech.

Responsibilities include designing scalable architectures, integrating AI capabilities, and contributing to front-end