Sr. ML Platform Engineer
Job at a Glance
- Title: Sr. ML Platform Engineer
- Location: Orlando, FL (4 days onsite)
- Contract: 12 months initial with potential for extension of up to 22 months or conversion to full time with the client
- Pay: $75.00-$80.00/hour + optional medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match
OverviewOur Client is seeking a senior-level software engineer with deep hands-on experience across Kubernetes infrastructure, containerized application development, cloud platforms, and production machine learning systems. This role supports a high-scale platform focused on real-time data processing, computer vision, MLOps, and cloud-native deployment architectures. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable building containerized applications and operating Kubernetes infrastructure in production environments.
Key Responsibilities- Design and implement scalable machine learning training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring pipelines.
- Build and support containerized applications deployed within Kubernetes environments.
- Deploy and optimize computer vision and machine learning models for production workloads.
- Develop Python services, APIs, and data pipelines supporting real-time systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate ML models into production platforms.
- Troubleshoot and optimize cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes workloads, and production pipelines.
- Build reusable tools for model monitoring, evaluation, and operational excellence.
Required Skills- 8-10+ years of overall software or infrastructure engineering experience.
- Hands-on Docker and container development experience, including writing Dockerfiles and building images.
- Deep Kubernetes experience including Deployments, Services, Ingress, PV/PVC, Helm, and production troubleshooting.
- Strong Python development experience.
- Production cloud infrastructure experience, preferably AWS and EKS.
- Experience supporting or deploying machine learning workloads in production environments.
- Experience building real-time or event-driven systems.
- Expertise with Linux/Ubuntu environments.
- Experience with technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, Redis, or similar messaging platforms.
- Ability to clearly articulate personal ownership of systems and solutions built.
Preferred Skills- Rancher experience.
- AWS services including SageMaker, S3, and DynamoDB.
- Computer vision experience with YOLO, OWL, SAM, VLM, or VLA models.
- Experience optimizing large-scale model performance.
- Java experience.
- High-visibility production systems experience.
- Security-conscious platform engineering experience.
Why Should I Apply?
Join a highly visible engineering team building cloud-native machine learning and computer vision platforms at scale. This role offers the opportunity to solve challenging infrastructure, Kubernetes, and MLOps problems while contributing to real-world systems that support millions of users and large-scale production workloads.
About CEI
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