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AI/ML Engineer

TALENT Software Services
Minnetonka, MN Full Time
POSTED ON 9/30/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/27/2027
  • Job Title: AI/ML Engineer
  • Location: Minnetonka Mills, MN
  • Duration: 6 months
  • Experience: 4-6 years
  • Primary Focus: Machine Learning, NLP, LLMs, GenAI, MLOps
  • Core Skills: Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Docker, REST APIs, Databricks

Role Summary

  • Build, train, tune, and deploy machine learning models.
  • Translate data science experiments and prototypes into scalable, production-ready ML solutions.
  • Develop reliable ML services and pipelines for enterprise production environments.

Key Responsibilities

  • Translate data science prototypes into production-grade ML services and pipelines.
  • Build training and inference code with:
    • Reproducibility
    • Versioning
    • Automated testing
  • Implement scalable online and offline model serving.
  • Optimize model serving for:
    • Batching
    • Latency
    • Throughput
    • Scalability
  • Integrate ML lifecycle tooling, including:
    • Experiment tracking
    • Model registries
    • Deployment automation
    • Model monitoring
  • Collaborate with Data Engineering teams on feature pipelines and data contracts.
  • Own production ML health, including:
    • Drift detection
    • Performance regression
    • Rollback strategies
    • Incident response

Machine Learning & Data Science

  • Experience applying data science techniques in a commercial enterprise environment.
  • Strong understanding of:
    • Supervised Learning
    • Unsupervised Learning
    • NLP
    • Time-Series Forecasting
    • Statistical Analysis
  • Experience with large-scale data and production ML workloads.
  • Experience with scikit-learn and Databricks.
  • Strong analytical, quantitative, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.

NLP & LLM / GenAI

  • 3 years of production experience with NLP, including:
    • Transformers
    • GPT
    • Other modern NLP technologies
  • 2-3 years of experience applying LLMs to real-world business problems.
  • Hands-on experience with:
    • RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
    • Vector Databases
    • Embeddings
  • Experience using vision and speech models in GenAI applications.
  • Experience working with large amounts of data for NLP and LLM solutions.

MLOps & Production Engineering

  • 5 years of software engineering experience.
  • 2 years of experience shipping ML models to production.
  • Strong understanding of MLOps and ML system design.
  • Experience with:
    • CI/CD
    • DevOps
    • Model deployment
    • Model monitoring
    • Model versioning
  • Understanding of ML production challenges, including:
    • Data leakage
    • Training-serving skew
    • Model drift
    • Performance degradation

Development & Cloud Technologies

  • Strong Python development skills.
  • Experience with ML frameworks:
    • TensorFlow
    • PyTorch
  • Experience with:
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • REST APIs
  • Experience building APIs for machine learning models.
  • Experience with scalable model serving and distributed ML workloads.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

  • Experience with feature stores.
  • Experience with model registries.
  • Experience with model monitoring platforms.
  • GPU optimization experience.
  • Distributed training experience.
  • Responsible AI toolkits and compliance experience.

Soft Skills

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to present detailed technical analyses to broad audiences.
  • Organized, self-motivated, and able to work independently.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Essential Skills

  • AI/ML Engineering
  • Python
  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • NLP
  • LLMs
  • RAG
  • Vector Databases
  • Embeddings
  • Databricks
  • scikit-learn
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • REST APIs
  • MLOps
  • CI/CD

Digital Skills

  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • AI & GenAI - Products & Tools

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