Senior AI Software Engineer, Python

Job Overview

About Us Scorpion is the leading provider of technology and services helping local businesses thrive. We do this by helping customers understand local market dynamics, make the most of their marketing, and deliver experiences their customers will love.

We offer tools to know what’s going on with marketing, competitors, and customers. We offer a unique blend of AI support and teams of real human people with local expertise committed to customer success.

Job Description

At Scorpion, we are ready to do whatever it takes to help our clients reach their goals. Our technology and personalized tools bring everything together to help local businesses easily understand their unique business, market, and customer needs.

We put SEO, Reviews, Advertising, Email Marketing, Chat and Messaging, Social Media, Website, Lead Management, Appointment Scheduling, and more to work for local businesses. We’re a technology-led service with a human touch.

Build and operate the infrastructure that runs LLM orchestration workloads at scale. Own the operational data layer for the CI runtime, including state management, session persistence, and real-time data access patterns.

Own observability for the CI platform, including structured logging, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry), and error tracking (Sentry).

Key Responsibilities

• About Us Scorpion is the leading provider of technology and services helping local businesses thrive.
• We do this by helping customers understand local market dynamics, make the most of their marketing, and deliver experiences their customers will love.
• We offer a unique blend of AI support and teams of real human people with local expertise committed to customer success.
• We put SEO, Reviews, Advertising, Email Marketing, Chat and Messaging, Social Media, Website, Lead Management, Appointment Scheduling, and more to work for local businesses.
• About the Role The Senior AI Software Engineer, Python will be responsible for making Scorpion’s Conversational Intelligence Platform production-grade by building reliable, observable, and scalable infrastructure for real-time AI workloads, including LLM orchestration, streaming responses, and event-driven messaging across multiple communication channels.
• This role owns the runtime reliability of systems that process LLM inference pipelines, manage backpressure across async workloads, and maintain clean service boundaries with downstream teams.
• Operating within an established architecture, the Senior AI Software Engineer, Python is responsible for the operational excellence required to make the platform production-ready.
• What Your Success Will Look Like Own the reliability of the event-driven messaging layer, including backpressure management, idempotency, dead-letter handling, and retry strategies.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• We do this by helping customers understand local market dynamics, make the most of their marketing, and deliver experiences their customers will love.
• Operating within an established architecture, the Senior AI Software Engineer, Python is responsible for the operational excellence required to make the platform production-ready.
• Who You Are And What You Bring Experience 5+ Years of Experience or Relevant Experience.
• Hard / Technical Skills Deep command of Python internals: async/await lifecycle, event loop mechanics, GIL implications for concurrency strategy, memory profiling.
• Production experience with Pydantic, type systems, and structured data modeling in high-throughput services.
• Hands-on experience operating LLM inference infrastructure at scale.
• Deep experience with NoSQL data modeling: partition strategy, consistency tradeoffs, query cost optimization, and hot-partition avoidance.
• Experience with event-driven architecture in production: backpressure, idempotency, dead-letter handling, retry strategies.

Benefits and Perks

• The base salary range is $135,000 (entry-level) - $175,000 (highly experienced), exclusive of fringe benefits.
• Additionally, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider the internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer.
• The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary bonuses or commissions.
• Our Benefits We invest in our employees by offering them diverse benefits from best-in-class carriers.
• These benefits provide enough choice and flexibility to keep our employees and their families healthy and happy-today and tomorrow.
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance Flexible paid time off, so you can rest, relax, and recharge away from work Paid parental leave Paid cell phone and service Remote office allowance Professional development and development courses Regular manager check-ins to drive performance and career growth through Lattice Work Location & Flexibility Scorpion supports a range of work arrangements, including in-office, hybrid, and remote roles.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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