Senior AI Engineer: Backend & LLM Systems

NovoEd, Inc.; California; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits Package with time off

Holiday pay

Job summary

NovoEd, Inc. is a fast-growing product company applying cutting-edge AI capabilities to its core platform. Our Python backend stack includes FastAPI, Gunicorn, and Nginx with Celery for heavy background processing.

We seek a senior AI Engineer who blends backend engineering with applied AI to deliver fast, reliable, and scalable systems. You will design and deploy AI-powered backends, integrate LLMs and traditional ML models, optimize vector stores for RAG, and write clean Python code while

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years backend engineering experience in Python with FastAPI or Flask.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy production‑grade AI‑powered backend systems.
• Integrate LLMs and ML models into scalable architectures.
• Optimize vector databases for retrieval‑augmented generation pipelines.
• Write clean, testable Python code following best practices.
• Focus on performance to minimize latency in AI workflows.
• Collaborate with product, backend, and frontend engineers to deliver cohesive solutions.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

Background processing

LLM integration

Celery

Performance tuning

AI deployment

Education

Masters Degree in related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Nginx

Job description

NovoEd, Inc. is a fast-growing product company applying cutting-edge AI capabilities to its core platform. Our Python backend stack includes FastAPI, Gunicorn, and Nginx with Celery for heavy background processing.

We seek a senior AI Engineer who blends backend engineering with applied AI to deliver fast, reliable, and scalable systems. You will design and deploy AI-powered backends, integrate LLMs and traditional ML models, optimize vector stores for RAG, and write clean Python code while