{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"489a814c53344b47637dfd52","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/489a814c53344b47637dfd52","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/489a814c53344b47637dfd52","title":"Senior Software Engineer 3 - (Inference, AI Infrastructure, Python)","description":"Senior Software Engineer 3 - (Inference, AI Infrastructure, Python)\nClearance: TS/SCI - Polygraph required\nPosition ID: 20-24-027-SWE3\nLocation: Annapolis Junction, Maryland\nDescription:\nJoin us in building the next generation of AI infrastructure that will power innovation across the customer organization. We’re seeking a senior software engineer to support our AI infrastructure team. In this role, you’ll help build and maintain the foundation for customer AI capabilities while supporting a broader ecosystem of AI-enabled applications. Your focus will be ensuring access to the highest available quality LLMs to users throughout the inference software stack. Requirements shift quickly as mission needs evolve and new technologies emerge, so you'll keep sharpening your skills and learning to turn loosely defined problems into working solutions.\nLead the evaluation, configuration, and deployment of inference models for our users.\nTranslate high-level stakeholder goals into engineering outcomes.\nMentor engineers and grow development best practices and standards for the team.\nDevelop in-house services and techniques to guarantee continual high-quality inference service for our customer.\nEngage with other teams in our organization to establish solid infrastructure for our services and integrate LLM-powered tools for user needs.\nCollaborate with teammates on surge efforts to support short-term, high-priority inference needs from our customer.\nPosition Required Skills:\nExperience with Python and/or other modern programming languages.\nExperience with Argo CD and/or other CI/CD frameworks.\nExperience with Kubernetes/Helm.\nExperience with AWS or other cloud service providers.\nStrong communication skills and ability to mentor other engineers.\nExcellent leadership and stakeholder management skills.\nAbility to balance hands-on engineering with leadership and coordination responsibilities.\nNice to Haves\nExperience with vLLM, LiteLLM, or similar inference-serving frameworks.\nExperience with other LLM hosting frameworks and practices.\nExperience supporting production software using Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices.\nExperience with Elastic, Grafana/Prometheus, or other observability frameworks and practices.\nExperience with Docker and containerization.\nExperience in traffic shaping and quality-of-service engineering.\nKnowledge of and interest in hosting AI capabilities.\nSWE3 Qualifications:\nYOE Requirement: 12 yrs., B.S. in a technical discipline or 4 additional yrs. in place of B.S.\nSalary Range: $232k-$283k (Annually)\nThe range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.\nAkina is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business, looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join our team. We offer a generous compensation package that includes 24 days PTO accrued annually and 11 federal holidays. Our 401k is 100% vested on your start date and the company makes a direct contribution worth 10% of your salary. Akina covers 100% of healthcare costs for employees and 50% toward dependents. We offer educational assistance towards college classes and will cover costs associated with job related training and certifications.\nAkina is committed to excellence and creating innovative and flexible solutions for our clients. 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We’re seeking a senior software engineer to support our AI infrastructure team. In this role, you’ll help build and maintain the foundation for customer AI capabilities while supporting a broader ecosystem of AI-enabled applications. Your focus will be ensuring access to the highest available quality LLMs to users throughout the inference software stack. 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This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.\nAkina is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business, looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join our team. We offer a generous compensation package that includes 24 days PTO accrued annually and 11 federal holidays. Our 401k is 100% vested on your start date and the company makes a direct contribution worth 10% of your salary. Akina covers 100% of healthcare costs for employees and 50% toward dependents. We offer educational assistance towards college classes and will cover costs associated with job related training and certifications.\nAkina is committed to excellence and creating innovative and flexible solutions for our clients. 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