Software Engineer 2 - (AI Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Python)

Akina, Inc is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business, seeking a full-stack software engineer to support their AI infrastructure team. The role involves building and maintaining the platform that supports AI capabilities, focusing on inference services and ensuring high performance and reliability of AI infrastructure components.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and optimize infrastructure for AI model inference at scale
• Support the development and maintenance of production AI services and applications, including retrieval augmented generation (RAG), autonomous agents, and emerging technologies
• Navigate ambiguity and define solutions for underspecified systems and requirements
• Drive adoption of new technologies and practices across engineering teams
• Implement monitoring, logging, and observability solutions for AI services
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using IaC principles
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of AI platform components
• Contribute to security best practices for AI systems and data
• Provide technical guidance and informal mentorship to junior engineers