Senior Backend Engineer (ML) at Tennr
New York City, NY
$200,000–$230,000
Jul 27, 2026
New York City, NY
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A founding ML Infrastructure Engineer role at a healthcare AI startup, responsible for building and scaling the cloud infrastructure behind model training, inference, and data pipelines. The position owns observability, reliability, and production operations across the ML stack, and collaborates closely with ML and backend engineers. Deep ML expertise is not required — the role suits a strong distributed-systems or cloud infrastructure engineer who wants to grow into MLOps.
Senior level · 4+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,150 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,600–2,800
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499).
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Why we read it this way (5)
The role is titled 'Sr. ML Infrastructure Engineer' but the JD explicitly states prior ML ops/infra experience is not required — the core gate is distributed systems and cloud infrastructure engineering, which is why this is classified as Software Developers (15-1252) rather than a pure ops/admin role.
The alt SOC 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) is noted as a runner-up given the infrastructure operations emphasis, but the JD's focus on architecting and building pipelines and systems from scratch points more strongly to 15-1252.
Inference engines (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT) and Kubernetes are listed under 'Nice to have' and are marked preferred accordingly.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
The role requires 4 days/week in the Hudson Square (New York City) office; it is not fully remote.
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