Responsibilities
- Design and develop user-facing applications powered by large language models
- Create and maintain high-performance APIs that integrate LLMs with our platformImplement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for enhanced information access
- Build intelligent document processing workflows using OCR and LLM technologies
- Develop conversational interfaces that solve practical problems for our users
- Ensure system reliability with fallback mechanisms for provider outages
- Collaborate with product teams to define requirements and technical specifications
Requirements
- 1-4 years of experience in software engineering with a focus on backend development
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent technical field
- Demonstrated experience building applications that utilize large language models
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience with web frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, or Django
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining production REST APIs
- Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL
- Familiarity with LLM orchestration tools such as LangChain or LangGraph
- Experience with vector embeddings and information retrieval systems
- History of shipping code to production environments
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with LLM fine-tuning and model optimization techniques
- Knowledge of containerization and microservices architecture
- Experience with OCR and document processing technologies
- Understanding of performance optimization for AI applications
Technical Skills
- Programming: Python and/or Golang
- Frameworks: FastAPI, Flask, Django
- LLM Tools: LangChain, LangGraph
- API Development: REST, OpenAPI
- Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis, vector databases
- LLM Integration: OpenAI, Anthropic, and other providers
- Information Retrieval: Vector embeddings, semantic search
- Document Processing: OCR, PDF parsing
Top Skills
What We Do
Tractian is a machine intelligence company that offers industrial monitoring systems. Tractian builds streamlined hardware-software solutions to give maintenance technicians and industrial decision-makers comprehensive oversight of their operations. It is democratizing access to sophisticated real-time monitoring and asset operations tools.
Tractian's solutions are used in environments that address a combined total of 5% of global industrial output. The company’s broad market reach is evidenced in its customer base from various industries, such as John Deere, Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar, Goodyear, Carrier, Johnson Controls, and Bimbo, the owner of the brands Little Bites and Thomas Bagels. Tractian's customers see a 6-12x ROI with savings of $6,000 per monitored machine annually on average.
In a major milestone and a first for the industry, Tractian launched the AI-Assisted Maintenance category in the industrial sector. In this new paradigm, artificial intelligence identifies machine problems and suggests preventive actions to be taken, giving invaluable insight and support to maintenance professionals. It is important to highlight that the intent of Assisted Maintenance is firmly rooted in augmenting maintenance professionals to provide more assertive diagnosis with human-in-the-loop feedback.
Tractian's mission is to elevate this category of workers in a highly impactful way. The Assisted Maintenance category will provide unimaginable support for maintenance professionals. By combining shop floor expertise with our technology, maintainers will be able to anticipate and address issues with unprecedented accuracy and speed
