Python Developer Job at Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

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  • Confidential
  • Pittsburgh, PA

Job Description

Salary: $80,000 - 110,000 per year Requirements:

  • 4–7 years of software development experience, including strong hands-on Python backend development.
  • 1–2 years of practical experience building Generative AI, LLM-based, or RAG applications.
  • Experience developing REST APIs with FastAPI, Flask, or a similar Python framework; FastAPI is preferred.
  • Hands-on GCP experience with Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, Vertex AI, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, IAM, and Secret Manager.
  • Experience integrating AI/ML services into enterprise applications using APIs, authentication, asynchronous processing, and cloud-native services.
  • Experience with structured and unstructured data formats, Git, Docker, CI/CD, cloud deployment, debugging, and Agile collaboration.
  • Proficiency in Python fundamentals, including object-oriented and modular coding, exception handling, unit testing, and package management.
  • Knowledge of Generative AI concepts, including prompts, model invocation, structured outputs, token usage, response validation, and basic evaluation.
  • Knowledge of RAG workflows, including ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector retrieval, metadata filtering, reranking, and grounding.
  • Familiarity with FastAPI/REST endpoint design, request and response models, authentication, asynchronous processing, and integration.
  • Experience processing data with tools and formats such as pandas, openpyxl, JSON/JSONL, Excel, CSV, PDF, Word, and text.
  • Familiarity with service accounts, secrets, CI/CD, Postman or cURL, logging, and troubleshooting.
  • Additional desired experience includes agentic AI frameworks, multi-step orchestration, Vertex AI Vector Search, Graph RAG, knowledge graphs, Pub/Sub event-driven architectures, OAuth, signed URLs, secure service-to-service authentication, React or frontend integration, AI evaluation metrics, and healthcare workflows or document intelligence.
  • No specific degree requirement is stated.
Responsibilities:
  • Design, develop, and maintain modular Python backend services and APIs for AI-enabled applications.
  • Build LLM and RAG pipelines, including prompt orchestration, structured output processing, validation, and guardrails.
  • Develop REST APIs, preferably with FastAPI, for document processing, pipeline execution, asynchronous operations, and enterprise integrations.
  • Implement retrieval and processing workflows using Google Cloud services, including Vertex AI, Vertex AI Search, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Secret Manager, and Cloud Run.
  • Process structured and unstructured documents through parsing, metadata generation, validation, transformation, and persistence.
  • Support integration testing, debugging, deployment, logging, monitoring, and troubleshooting in development and QA environments.
  • Collaborate with architects, infrastructure teams, product owners, and stakeholders to deliver scalable AI functionality.
  • Maintain API contracts, documentation, configuration, deployment artifacts, and reusable components.
Technologies:
  • Agentic AI
  • AI
  • API
  • BigQuery
  • Backend
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • Docker
  • Excel
  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Frontend
  • GCP
  • Git
  • IAM
  • Support
  • JSON
  • LLM
  • OAuth
  • Postman
  • Python
  • RAG
  • REST
  • React
  • pandas
  • OOP

More:

We are hiring for a three-month contract role developing production-ready Python backend services and APIs for AI-enabled enterprise applications. The work focuses on Generative AI and RAG solutions that integrate with Google Cloud Platform. The role involves cloud-hosted engineering in Agile, cross-functional teams and requires supporting development and QA environments. Location, remote or onsite schedule, and travel expectations are not specified.

last updated 43 week of 2026

Job Tags

Full time, Contract work, Remote work

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