Backend Engineer, AI (Agent Systems)
bjakcareer · Zurich
Job description
About the role
ActAI builds proactive applications that bring intelligence to everyday workflows with minimal prompting. As a Backend Engineer, AI you will own the inference and orchestration layer that powers every AI interaction, ensuring low latency, high reliability, and cost efficiency.
Key responsibilities
- Build and operate backend systems that serve AI‑powered features in production.
- Design inference pipelines, orchestration layers, and service boundaries around models.
- Own production concerns such as monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response.
- Optimize latency and throughput across inference, caching, batching, and streaming.
Required profile
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals in production environments.
- Experience running high‑throughput, low‑latency services.
- Familiarity with AI inference patterns (LLMs, embeddings, multimodal).
- Comfortable debugging distributed systems under load.
Required skills
- Python
- Node.js
- PyTorch
- OpenAI / Anthropic APIs or open‑source LLMs
- SQL & NoSQL databases
- Kubernetes
- Docker
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bjakcareer
Zurich