AI Backend Engineer - Associate

About the role

PwC’s AI Centre of Excellence is looking for an Associate AI Backend Engineer to join its Internal Firm Services team. You will help design, build, and ship the backend services that power AI‑driven products across the firm’s consulting and advisory lines.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement RESTful APIs for authentication, data access, and health monitoring.
• Develop modular services for model inference, prompt orchestration, and pipeline management.
• Orchestrate background and asynchronous tasks for long‑running AI workloads.
• Integrate with LLM platforms such as Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, and Hugging Face, optimizing calls for performance and cost.
• Containerize services using Docker and Docker‑Compose and collaborate on CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to define API contracts and data models.
• Produce clear documentation, including OpenAPI/Swagger specs, architecture diagrams, and in‑code comments.

Required profile

• Associate‑level experience in backend development and AI integration.
• Ability to work in a collaborative, cross‑functional team environment.
• Strong problem‑solving mindset and attention to detail.

Required skills

• RESTful API design and implementation.
• Docker and Docker‑Compose.
• CI/CD pipeline development.
• Integration with Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, and Hugging Face.
• Asynchronous task orchestration.
• OpenAPI/Swagger documentation.
• Data store management and scaling.