Senior Python Engineer - AI-Driven Doc Verification Remote

Xident; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Xident is seeking a senior Python developer to own the Python services behind document verification, including OCR, face matching, and job orchestration. The role blends backend engineering with machine-learning adjacent systems on GPU infrastructure to process identity documents.

You will maintain the OCR pipeline, build face-matching services with 512‑dim embeddings, and develop queue-based workload orchestration, focusing on reliability and performance of the document-processing stack.

Qualifications

• Senior-level Python development experience.
• Experience building or operating production backend services.
• Familiarity with OCR and document-processing pipelines.
• Experience with face matching, embeddings, or related computer-vision systems.
• Ability to work with asynchronous job queues and GPU-backed workloads.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimize the Python OCR pipeline using a vision-language model for document text extraction.
• Build and operate face-matching services using InsightFace and 512-dimensional embeddings.
• Develop job orchestration for verification workloads using a queue system.
• Support and improve services deployed on GPU infrastructure.
• Take ownership of the reliability and performance of document-processing components.

Skills

Senior Python

Backend systems

OCR pipelines

Face matching

GPU workloads

Tools

InsightFace

River

docling VLM

Job description

Xident is seeking a senior Python developer to own the Python services behind document verification, including OCR, face matching, and job orchestration. The role blends backend engineering with machine-learning adjacent systems on GPU infrastructure to process identity documents.

You will maintain the OCR pipeline, build face-matching services with 512‑dim embeddings, and develop queue-based workload orchestration, focusing on reliability and performance of the document-processing stack.