Staff AI Engineer
Picsart
Office
Yerevan, Armenia
Full Time
At Picsart, our AI engineering team builds the core systems that power the creative tools used by hundreds of millions worldwide. As a Staff AI Engineer, you’ll lead the design and evolution of our model serving platform—enabling fast, scalable, and reliable deployment of cutting-edge AI models. Your work will shape the foundation of our AI infrastructure and accelerate innovation across teams.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Architect and drive the development of a scalable, cost-efficient model serving platform.
- Lead optimization efforts for deploying machine learning models with high performance and low latency.
- Guide incident response, performance tuning, and reliability strategies to ensure 24/7 model availability.
- Establish secure, automated deployment pipelines and enforce best practices for compliance and observability.
- Design and maintain RESTful APIs with FastAPI for model inference.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to align serving architecture with evolving model needs.
- Evaluate and integrate emerging tools and frameworks to future-proof our AI infrastructure.
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Deep knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, distributed systems.
- 7+ years of experience engineering and 3+ years of experience in managing ML models in production environments.
- Expertise in containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and scalable system design.
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging frameworks in production-grade services.
- Strong communication skills and a track record of technical leadership and cross-team collaboration.
Good To Have
- Advanced Python programming expertise.
- Hands-on experience with inference engines like TensorRT, Triton, and Ray.
- Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow).
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Exposure to distributed inference and hybrid model serving patterns.
What we seek and value most in our candidates
Professionalism in both soft and hard skills; motivation to grow, learn and share, positive attitude, flexibility, transparency, ownership and the most important - passion and commitment.
Picsart is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.
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ABOUT US
Picsart is the world’s largest digital creation platform and a top 20 most downloaded app. Every month, the Picsart community creates, remixes, and shares billions of visual stories using the company’s powerful and easy-to-use editing tools. Picsart has amassed one of the largest open-source content collections in the world, including free-to-edit photos, stickers, backgrounds, templates, and more. Picsart is available in 30 languages for free and as a subscription on iOS, Android, Windows devices and on the Web. Headquartered in Miami, with offices around the world, Picsart is backed by SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, DCM Ventures, Insight Partners, and others. Download the app or visit picsart.com for more information.
Staff AI Engineer
Office
Yerevan, Armenia
Full Time
August 11, 2025