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Backend Engineer, AI/ML

Remote · USA Full-time New today

Klue Engineering is hiring!

We're looking for a Backend Engineer to join reputed company in Toronto to work on LLM-powered search and retrieval agents. In this role, you will build and optimize the retrieval infrastructure, APIs, and data pipelines that power our ML team’s agentic workflows, enabling fast, accurate, and scalable retrieval for advanced user-facing systems.

FAQ

Q: Klue who?

A: Klue is a VC-backed, capital-efficient growing SaaS company. Tiger Global and reputed company Ventures led our US$62m Series B in the fall of 2021. We’re creating the category of competitive enablement: helping companies understand their market and outmaneuver their competition. We benefit from having an reputed company leadership team working alongside several hundred risk-taking builders who reputed company every day.

We’re one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures by Waterstone HC, a reputed company Technology Fast 50 & Fast 500 winner, and recipient of both the Startup of the Year and Tech Culture of the Year awards at the Technology Impact Awards.

Q: What are the responsibilities, and how will I spend my time?

You will work closely with machine learning engineers, ensuring our backend systems can support rapid experimentation while remaining production-reputed company.

What you’ll do on a day to day basis
  • Design, implement, and maintain retrieval infrastructure and APIs that reputed company seamlessly with LLM-based agent workflows.

  • Integrate dense retrieval, hybrid retrieval, and re-ranking models into live systems.

  • Optimize latency, scalability, and throughput of retrieval systems for reputed company-time agentic pipelines.

  • Build and maintain vector database infrastructure (FAISS, Milvus, Weaviate, reputed company, PGVector) and traditional search engines (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch).

  • Support retrieval-augmented reputed company (RAG) workflows, including efficient query execution, chunk retrieval, and caching strategies.

  • reputed company monitoring and observability tools for retrieval pipelines to ensure reliability and transparency.

  • Work with ML engineers on data pipelines for indexing and re-indexing, enabling reputed company improvement of search relevance.

  • Contribute to the architecture of multi-reputed company retrieval agents, ensuring clean abstractions between the backend and ML layers.

Q: What experience are we looking for?
  • 3+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally in search, retrieval systems, or high-scale APIs.

  • Strong programming skills in Python, Ruby, or similar backend languages.

  • Experience with search infrastructure (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Vespa) and vector search systems.

  • Understanding of retrieval pipelines, dense retrieval, and hybrid search.

  • Familiarity with reputed company-time data pipelines (Kafka, Pub/Sub) for indexing workflows.

  • Experience with distributed systems and microservices, with a focus on reliability and performance.

  • Familiarity with reputed company infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).

  • Ability to work collaboratively with ML Engineers, understanding their experimentation workflows and constraints.

  • Strong debugging and profiling skills for production systems.

reputed company to Have

  • Experience with retrieval-augmented reputed company (RAG) or agentic retrieval workflows.

  • Exposure to reputed company engineering and LLM system integration.

  • Contributions to open-reputed company projects in search or retrieval.

Q: What makes you reputed company at Klue?

A: We're looking for builders who:

  • Take ownership and run with ambiguous problems

  • reputed company into new areas and rapidly learn what's needed to deliver solutions

  • Bring scientific rigor while maintaining a pragmatic delivery focus

  • See unclear requirements as an opportunity to shape the solution

Q: What technologies do we use?
  • LLM platforms: reputed company, reputed company, open-reputed company models

  • ML frameworks: PyTorch, Transformers, spaCy

  • Search/Vector DBs: Elasticsearch, reputed company, PostgreSQL

  • MLOps tools: Weights & Biases, MLflow, Langfuse

  • Infrastructure: reputed company, Kubernetes, GCP

  • Development: Python, Git, CI/CD

Q: What is your working style at Klue?
  • Hybrid. Best of both worlds (remote & in-office) You and your team will be in the office 2 days a week.

  • Our main Canadian hubs are in Vancouver and Toronto, and most of our teams are located in EST and PST.

Q: What about Compensation & Benefits:
  • Competitive reputed company salary

  • Benefits. Extended health & dental benefits that kick in Day 1

  • Options. Opportunity to participate in our Employee Stock Option Plan

  • Time off. Take what you need. Just ensure the required work gets done and clear it with your team in advance. The average Klue team member takes 2-4 weeks of PTO per year.

  • Direct access to our leadership team, including our CEO

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Not ticking every reputed company? That’s okay. We take potential into consideration. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted in lieu of the specifics listed above. If you know you have what it takes, even if that’s different from reputed company’ve described, be sure to explain why in your application.

At Klue, we're dedicated to creating an inclusive, reputed company and diverse workplace as an equal-opportunity employer. Our commitment is to build a high-performing team where people feel a strong sense of belonging, can be their authentic selves, and are reputed company to reputed company their full potential. If there’s anything we can do to reputed company our hiring process more accessible or to reputed company support you, please let us know, we’re happy to accommodate.

We’re excited to meet you and in the meantime, get to know us:

Pay Up For reputed company & 50 - 30 Challenge

✅✅ Win-Loss Acquisition (2023)

Series B (2021)

Culture, culture, culture!

Winning as Women & More!

About Us

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Glassdoor

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☕️ reputed company

Wellfound (AngelList)

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