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Sr AI Platform Engineer

Merican Inc

 

Bellevue, WA, USA

Posted On: 30+ days ago
Experience: 5+ years
Availability: Onsite
Openings: 1
Category: AI Platform Engineer
Tenure: Contract - Corp-to-Corp
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Description

You will build and scale production serving infrastructure for AI and data use cases, moving pilots from prototype to stable release.

This role is on-site.

Responsibilities

  • Build serving stores, sync pipelines, and API layers for pilot use cases using Python and FastAPI.
  • Configure end-to-end pilot integrations, including source table binding, key schemas, and consumer connections.
  • Establish CI/CD pipelines with automated tests for sync correctness, API contracts, and latency benchmarks.
  • Operate services to defined SLAs for latency, freshness, and availability.
  • Partner with domain teams to onboard use cases and contribute to reference implementations and documentation.

Required Skills

  • 5+ years of production Python development with FastAPI or comparable frameworks.
  • Experience building and operating batch and real-time data pipelines (Kafka, CDC, or incremental batch).
  • Production experience with caching and key-value stores (Redis, Valkey) including invalidation strategies.
  • Hands-on experience with vector databases or knowledge graphs (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, Neo4j).
  • Production experience with Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog, including Delta Lake internals.
  • Strong SQL and data modeling skills for point-lookup and analytical query patterns.
  • Proficiency with CI/CD tools like GitLab or GitHub Actions for data pipeline automation.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with embedded analytical engines like DuckDB.
  • Production experience with Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, or Power BI Semantic Models.
  • Experience defining and operating SLAs/SLOs for data products or APIs.

Education

Any Gradute

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