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Senior Backend Engineer, AI Evaluations

San Francisco - HybridFull-time$175k–$250k2026-10-26 → 2026-11-11

Core

Build infrastructure and tooling for an AI evaluations platform to enable reliable, repeatable evaluation of AI systems in production, including automated testing, debugging, and observability tools.

Role type

Senior Backend Engineer (AI Infrastructure)

Builds

Evaluation platforms, API/data integrations, test configuration management, reporting tools, and debugging/observability tools for AI components.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Backend system design, API development, data pipelines, test automation, CI/CD integration, observability tooling, debugging, Python/TypeScript/Java

Preferred skills

Multi-component AI systems (ASR, LLMs, TTS), regulated environments (HIPAA), conversational AI/voice agents, LLM observability frameworks

Technologies

Python, TypeScript, Java, Langfuse, prompt eval frameworks

Responsibilities

Build and maintain infrastructure for the AI evaluations platform; Develop and productionalize evaluation frameworks for system components; Partner with ML/QA teams to translate requirements into robust systems; Improve developer experience for evaluation tools; Ensure production standards for reliability and performance.