Senior Software Engineer (AI-Native Development)
We're looking for an experienced engineer to design and ship AI-native systems — production services that integrate large language models, embeddings, and ML pipelines into user-facing products. You'll own core platform components, productionize model-backed features, and help shape our MLOps practices.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement backend systems for embedding storage, retrieval and ranking.
- Integrate LLMs and vector search into scalable product features with robust fallbacks.
- Build reliable, observable data and model pipelines (ETL, feature stores, batch/stream).
- Collaborate with product and ML teams to iterate on prompts, evaluation and safety.
- Ship production-quality code, unit/integration tests and CI/CD for model-backed services.
Qualifications
- 5+ years building backend systems (Python/Go/Java/Node) and cloud-native infra.
- Experience with LLMs, embeddings, vector search (e.g. Elastic/Opensearch/FAISS/Pinecone), or modern ML infra.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, serverless and production observability.
- Strong engineering fundamentals: distributed systems, data modeling and API design.
- Good communication skills and ability to work asynchronously in a remote team.
How to apply
Email your CV and a short note to jobs@zaibatsu.international with the subject Senior Software Engineer (AI-Native). Please include links to relevant projects or GitHub.