AI/ML Platform Engineer

Vervic • Baltimore, MD

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About The Position

The AI/ML Platform Engineer builds and maintains automated machine learning pipelines and supports the development, deployment, monitoring, and reliability of production ML systems. The role includes applying machine learning techniques to business requirements and integrating optimized models into production systems.

The engineer monitors pipeline and model health, supports incident response and troubleshooting, and contributes to cloud cost optimization and infrastructure-as-code configurations. The role also maintains internal SDKs, self-service tools, documentation, and reusable templates, while helping platform users and conducting technical enablement sessions. The engineer collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to translate business needs into technical solutions and continuously improve platform reliability, scalability, usability, and operational efficiency.

The position requires a bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field and at least five years of relevant engineering experience, including two years working with production ML systems. A master's degree or PhD is preferred but not required. Compensation is listed at $50 per hour.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least five years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or ML engineering, including at least two years working with production ML systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience developing maintainable, production-quality code.
• Solid understanding of ML and deep learning fundamentals, including model training, evaluation, feature engineering, versioning, and deployment.
• Experience with ML frameworks and libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or scikit-learn.
• Experience with at least one ML orchestration tool: Apache Airflow, Kubeflow Pipelines, or Prefect.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP and managed AI/ML services.
• Experience with Docker, basic Kubernetes operations, and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
• Experience building, deploying, monitoring, or troubleshooting ML pipelines and production workflows.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, debugging, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to operational reliability.
• Ability to independently troubleshoot complex pipelines and distributed systems.
• Clear technical documentation and incident reporting skills.
• Collaborative approach to working with engineers, data scientists, and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Continuous improvement mindset focused on reducing operational issues, deployment delays, and unnecessary cloud costs.

Nice To Haves

• A master's degree or PhD in a relevant field.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Familiarity with experiment tracking and model management tools such as MLflow or Weights & Biases.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management using Terraform or Ansible.
• Familiarity with feature stores such as Feast or Tecton.
• Experience with internal developer tools, SDKs, and self-service platform capabilities.
• Knowledge of NLP, computer vision, speech processing, reinforcement learning, or Generative AI.
• Experience in government, regulated, or large enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automated ML pipelines for data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Implement automated testing, pipeline validation, staged deployment, and failure recovery using ML orchestration tools.
• Prototype, implement, and optimize ML algorithms and integrate models into production systems.
• Apply supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning, NLP, computer vision, and Generative AI techniques as appropriate to business requirements.
• Implement logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerts to monitor pipeline health, model performance, data drift, model degradation, and infrastructure utilization.
• Participate in production support, incident response, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Monitor compute, storage, and data-transfer costs and optimize resource utilization through autoscaling, spot or preemptible instances, and workload scheduling.
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code configurations, resource tagging, and budget controls.
• Maintain internal SDKs, self-service tools, onboarding documentation, and reusable templates.
• Support platform users, troubleshoot issues, resolve bugs, and conduct technical enablement sessions for agency teams.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.
• Evaluate emerging ML technologies and improve platform reliability, scalability, usability, and operational efficiency.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior