Back-End Engineer – Edge AI/CV Orchestration

About the role

Rime is looking for an experienced Edge AI/CV Orchestration Engineer to strengthen and scale the core engine that manages AI workloads on resource‑constrained edge devices. You will bridge backend infrastructure and physical hardware, ensuring efficient, reliable operation of fleets of NVIDIA Jetson devices.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimise new features for the Python‑based orchestration engine.
• Implement robust resource‑allocation, task‑scheduling and priority‑management solutions across a fleet of edge devices.
• Profile and fine‑tune AI/CV pipelines on Jetson platforms, diving deep into Linux performance tuning.
• Maintain and evolve APIs and microservices that support the orchestration layer.
• Collaborate with hardware and AI teams to integrate NVIDIA stack components such as DeepStream, TensorRT, or Triton.

Required profile

• 3‑5+ years of experience in backend development, systems programming or DevOps, with a focus on distributed or embedded systems.
• Strong expertise in Python, including asynchronous programming (asyncio) and system‑level scripting.
• Hands‑on experience with NVIDIA Jetson platforms (Orin Nano, Xavier NX, AGX) and the JetPack SDK.
• Deep knowledge of Linux system administration, process management, shell scripting, networking and performance analysis tools.
• Proven ability to design, build and maintain APIs and microservices.

Required skills

• Python
• asyncio
• Linux
• NVIDIA Jetson
• JetPack SDK
• Docker
• K3s / MicroK8s (edge‑focused Kubernetes)
• NVIDIA DeepStream
• TensorRT
• Triton Inference Server
• C++
• Go
• AWS IoT Greengrass
• Azure IoT Edge
• Balena