Staff Software Engineer (AI/ML/ SaaS)

Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fueling ours.

Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing.

As a trusted partner for purpose-built AI and intelligent automation, we solve highly complex problems for our enterprise customers and put their information to work to transform the way they do business. Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones. You will work on further developing a portfolio already containing client names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK.

About the role

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help build and scale ABBYY’s AI platform. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, MLOps, and DevOps. You will own how AI services are built, deployed, observed, and evolved in production, with a strong focus on Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and ML lifecycle automation.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will design systems, write production code, influence architecture, and mentor engineers.

Job Responsibilities

Design and build scalable AI platform services using Python and microservice architectures

Own DevOps and MLOps workflows including CI/CD, model deployment, versioning, and rollback

Build and maintain Kubernetes-based platforms for AI workloads

Work on data pipelines, dataset versioning, and auto-labeling workflows for model training

Enable end-to-end ML lifecycle: data ingestion, training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring

Collaborate closely with ML researchers, product teams, and other platform engineers

Drive best practices in software design, reliability, security, and observability

Lead technical discussions, review designs, and mentor team members

Job Requirements

10+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering

Strong proficiency in Python (or similar backend languages)

Solid experience building microservices and distributed systems

Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes in production environments

Strong understanding of DevOps and MLOps principles

Experience with data management for ML (datasets, labeling, pipelines)

Cloud experience with Azure or strong willingness to adopt Azure quickly

Ability to think at system level and still deliver hands-on

Nice to have

Experience building internal AI/ML platforms

Familiarity with model serving frameworks and inference optimization

Exposure to auto-labeling, weak supervision, or human-in-the-loop systems

Experience in enterprise or B2B SaaS environments

Here are some of our local benefits

Comprehensive medical, accidental, and life insurance

Weekly wellness sessions to support physical and mental well ‑ being

Generous paid time off policy

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Join ABBYY, and you will

Love how you work

We provide remote and hybrid working options to fit all lifestyles.

We use flexible hours across most of our teams to allow you to find your own definition of balance.

Encouraging a culture of giving, we provide two paid volunteering days off every year so you can take time to contribute to the causes you care about.

To ensure your family is cared for, we offer paid parental leave in all our locations.

Love whom you work with

We are a global team of 600+ colleagues, spread across 15 countries on four continents.

With colleagues representing 30+ nationalities, our workforce reflects the world.

Innovation and excellence run through our veins. Our teams gather the expertise which has garnered ABBYY more than 140 technology patents.

We are guided by the values of respect, transparency, and simplicity.

"Team Environment" is in the top three highest-scoring drivers of engagement across all of our departments.

Love what you work on

We are a company with more than 35 years of experience in the technology market;

Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones, with names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK;

We have modernized the capture market by creating the first low-code/no-code IDP platform.

Our Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision Technologies, and a marketplace built with AI, can transform any document in any process;

Top Analyst firms recognize ABBYY's market leadership, including Gartner, Everest PEAK Matrix ® Assessment, ISG Intelligent Automation Lens, and NelsonHall, amongst others.

ABBYY is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, check out the careers section on our website.