AI Infrastructure|Platform & Data Engineer

W2 Contract

Pay Rate: $60 - $70 per hour

Location: Austin, TX - Remote Role

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Python backend — Comfortable reading and contributing to an async Python/FastAPI codebase; able to build or extend backend features as needed
• Kubernetes + Helm — EKS deployments, Helm chart authoring and maintenance, HPA, network policies, ingress config
• Experience with RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
• CI/CD pipelines — End-to-end build → test → deploy pipelines; familiarity with Vessel (or similar internal image build tools)
• Infrastructure as Code — Helm, Terraform, or equivalent
• Observability — Metrics (Prometheus/Grafana or equivalents), log aggregation, pipeline failure alerting
• Evaluation & testing infrastructure — Automated RAG evaluation: retrieval quality metrics (MRR, NDCG, recall@k), answer quality benchmarks, regression suites
• Security & compliance — Secret management, mTLS cert rotation, access control audits

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with embedding/vector search platforms at scale
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration like Airflow, Temporal etc
• Load testing and capacity planning for high-volume embedding ingestion
• Some experience and understanding of working with AI "Agent" workflows and how they work with Platforms

Bayside Solutions, Inc. is not able to sponsor any candidates at this time. Additionally, candidates for this position must qualify as Inc.'s candidate.

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