Senior AI Engineer

About the role

Sojo Industries is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead the design and development of AI‑powered backend services for its Sojo Shield platform. This hybrid position will involve close collaboration with the Israel office while shaping the technical direction of the company’s AI infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Own the architecture, design, and delivery of LLM‑backed backend services used in core Sojo Shield workflows.
• Develop and evolve APIs that expose AI capabilities to internal and customer‑facing systems.
• Productize prompt‑based and agent‑based workflows using modern LLM frameworks and establish best practices.
• Design and implement robust evaluation, monitoring, and observability frameworks for AI systems in production.
• Integrate AI services into existing backend systems, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Partner with product, platform, and data teams to define technical strategy and ship AI features end‑to‑end.
• Mentor engineers, raise the technical bar, and improve system robustness through advanced AI engineering.
• Evaluate and introduce modern LLM tooling for pragmatic production adoption.

Required profile

• 7+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering with ownership of production systems.
• Proven technical leadership, including guiding architectural decisions and mentoring engineers.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and ability to work with large, real‑world datasets and complex operational environments.

Required skills

• Python programming.
• Design and maintenance of RESTful and asynchronous APIs at scale.
• Integration of large language models into production, including prompt engineering, inference optimization, and agent‑based workflows.
• Evaluation, monitoring, and observability frameworks for AI services.
• Handling large datasets and building scalable backend services.