Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Softstandard Solutions is a leading staffing and consulting firm specializing in placing top-tier technology talent with Fortune 500 companies. They are seeking a Senior Python Developer to design and develop scalable AI/ML applications and mentor engineers while implementing best practices in the field.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable Python-based AI/ML applications and pipelines for production
- Build, train, and deploy ML and deep learning models across NLP, Computer Vision, and Generative AI
- Fine-tune LLMs and build RAG pipelines, AI agents, and prompt engineering workflows
- Develop and maintain REST and gRPC APIs for high-throughput model serving
- Implement MLOps practices — experiment tracking, model versioning, drift monitoring, and retraining
- Optimize models via quantization, pruning, distillation, and ONNX for efficient inference
- Mentor engineers and drive best practices across the team
Skills
- 7–9 years of overall experience — majority in Python and AI/ML roles
- 4+ years deploying ML/AI systems in production environments
- Strong expertise in PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX and classical ML libraries
- Hands-on LLM experience — fine-tuning, RAG, LangChain, LlamaIndex, HuggingFace
- Solid MLOps skills — MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, SageMaker, or Vertex AI
- Cloud proficiency — AWS, GCP, or Azure with Docker and Kubernetes
- Degree in CS, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience
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