Senior AI Platform & Backend Engineer

Vizient, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 102,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive eligible

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. is seeking an experienced backend/infra engineer to design, build, and operate scalable services and platform components for AI/ML applications. You’ll collaborate with AI/ML engineers and data scientists to productionize models, pipelines, and data workflows.

The role emphasizes IaC, cloud deployments, observability, and performance optimization across the AI/ML team. Strong Python skills and cloud tooling are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Strong Python development for production backend services.
• Hands-on IaC with Pulumi or Terraform on AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Experience with Docker, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud deployment practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, and platform components for AI/ML apps.
• Build scalable cloud infrastructure with Pulumi and CI/CD pipelines.
• Support production deployment of ML models, LLM apps, RAG pipelines, and agentic AI systems.

Skills

Python development

Analytical problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership & adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Pulumi

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Databricks

Azure AI Foundry

Job description

Vizient, Inc. is seeking an experienced backend/infra engineer to design, build, and operate scalable services and platform components for AI/ML applications. You’ll collaborate with AI/ML engineers and data scientists to productionize models, pipelines, and data workflows.

The role emphasizes IaC, cloud deployments, observability, and performance optimization across the AI/ML team. Strong Python skills and cloud tooling are essential for success.