Machine Learning Engineer III 4P/791

Position:         Machine Learning Engineer III – AI/ML Product Engineering

Location:        Atlanta, GA

Duration:        5 Months
Client:            Southern Company Services

Southern Company Services is seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineer III to develop scalable, reusable, and production-grade AI products for deployment across multiple operating companies.

This role will focus on Retrieval-Augmented Generation, multi-agent systems, natural language processing, model deployment, and cloud-based AI solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering skills, hands-on AI/ML experience, and expertise with Azure or Google Cloud Platform.

Key Responsibilities

·       Design and build modular, reusable AI components and services.

·       Develop scalable RAG solutions using structured and unstructured data.

·       Engineer multi-agent systems for task coordination, workflow automation, and decision support.

·       Build transcription and NLP pipelines for customer-interaction analysis.

·       Develop and fine-tune models using PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, or similar frameworks.

·       Package and deploy models using Azure Machine Learning, Google Cloud Platform, or Databricks.

·       Integrate Databricks for data ingestion, feature engineering, experimentation, and model development.

·       Develop reusable libraries, APIs, templates, and engineering patterns.

·       Partner with MLOps, DevOps, data engineering, architecture, and product teams.

·       Implement monitoring for model performance, data drift, system usage, and operational reliability.

·       Ensure AI solutions meet enterprise security, privacy, compliance, scalability, and observability requirements.

·       Provide technical guidance to teams adopting shared AI products and components.

Required Qualifications

·       Strong experience developing and deploying production-grade AI and machine learning solutions.

·       Hands-on experience with RAG architectures, LLM applications, multi-agent systems, and NLP.

·       Experience with Azure AI services, Google Cloud Platform AI services, or Azure Machine Learning.

·       Proficiency with Python and frameworks such as PyTorch, Transformers, or LangChain.

·       Experience deploying scalable models and AI services in cloud environments.

·       Knowledge of APIs, software engineering practices, model monitoring, and MLOps.

·       Experience working with structured and unstructured datasets.

·       Strong communication, collaboration, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

·       Experience with Databricks, vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search.

·       Experience building reusable enterprise AI platforms or shared AI services.

·       Knowledge of model evaluation, data drift, observability, and responsible AI.

·       Familiarity with CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native deployment.

·       Utility, energy, or regulated-industry experience is preferred.