Senior Backend AI Engineer

Job description

**Sr. Backend AI Engineer** **Location:** Cleveland, OH **Role Overview** Move beyond traditional ETL. At BrightEdge, we are rebuilding our core data infrastructure into an **AI-augmented processing engine**. We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to architect "intelligent" systems that don't just move data, but understand it. You will build self-healing pipelines and agentic workflows that allow our platform to autonomously adapt to complex, shifting data landscapes. **What You’ll Do** **Architect Agentic Pipelines:** Build Python-based backend systems that utilize LLMs and AI agents to automate the discovery, parsing, and mapping of unstructured data. **Build Self-Healing Infrastructure:** Develop autonomous reliability layers that diagnose upstream failures, adapt to API schema changes, and perform real-time data validation without manual intervention. **Optimize High-Velocity Analytics:** Design and manage low-latency data flows into **ClickHouse** and **BigQuery**, ensuring our AI-driven insights are backed by high-performance OLAP architecture. **Scale Intelligent Connectors:** Create robust integrations (APIs, Streaming, S3) that leverage AI to handle diverse, non-standardized data sources at massive scale. **Engineering Leadership:** Drive best practices in AI-assisted testing and observability, mentoring the team on the intersection of traditional backend stability and modern AI capabilities. **What You Bring** 5+ years experience with Bachelor's degree in Computer science, Software Engineering **Python & AI Mastery:** Deep expertise in production-level Python. You’ve successfully integrated AI models/LLMs into backend services or data workflows. **OLAP Power User:** Proven experience with **ClickHouse, BigQuery, or Snowflake**, specifically in schema optimization and materialized views for large-scale datasets. **Distributed Systems Expertise:** Strong background in cloud environments (GCP/AWS) and real-time streaming tools like **Kafka, Flink, or Spark**. **Adaptive Mindset:** You don't just build to a spec; you build systems that anticipate and recover from environment changes autonomously. **Product Ownership:**A track record of leading high-impact initiatives and a desire to own the "brain" of a global data platform