Machine Learning Engineer

Employees in this job function are responsible for designing, building, deploying and scaling complex self-running ML solutions in areas like computer vision, perception, localization etc. They also automate and optimize the end-to-end ML model lifecycle using their expertise in experimental methodologies, statistics, and coding for tool building and analysis. Key Responsibilities Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to understand current and future ML requirementsDesign and develop innovative ML models and software algorithms to solve complex business problems in both structured and unstructured environmentsDesign, build, maintain and optimize scalable ML pipelines, architecture and infrastructureUse machine language and statistical modeling techniques such as decision trees, logistic regression, Bayesian analysis and others to develop and evaluate algorithms to improve product/system performance, quality, data management and accuracyAdapt machine learning to areas such as virtual reality, augmented reality, object detection, tracking, classification, terrain mapping, and others.Train and re-train ML models and systems as requiredDeploy ML models and algorithms into production and run simulations for algorithm development and test various scenariosAutomate model deployment, training and re-training, leveraging principles of agile methodology, CI/CD/CT (Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment/ Continuous Training) and MLOpsEnable model management for model versioning and traceability to ensure modularity and symmetry across environments and models for ML systems Skills Required GCP, Big Query, Python, Java, Cloud Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems Skills Preferred Graph Layer Design, develop, test, and deploy the ISDP knowledge graph from the domain event store to Production using cloud-native data pipelines.Model and evolve the graph's entities and relationships as new data sources are onboarded. MCP serving layerDesign, build, and operate the MCP server that exposes the ISDP graph layer and event store as tools to consumers — including GQL graph query, event-store query, and schema/DDL discovery.Define tool contracts, context, and guardrails so agents produce grounded, accurate, non-hallucinated responses over the graph.Ensure low-latency, secure, and cost-efficient serving for interactive and batch agent workloads. Reliability, monitoring & observabilityOwn monitoring and observability of the graph layer and the MCP server — data freshness, pipeline health, query latency/cost, tool-call success rates, and answer quality.Instrument SLOs, dashboards, alerting, and tracing; drive incident response and continuous reliability improvements. Collaboration & data onboardingPartner with Data Engineers and Application Data Source Owners across Product Development, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain to ingest and validate their data into ISDP.Establish data contracts, schema validation, and quality checks; support source owners through onboarding, mapping to the ISDP logical model, and troubleshooting.Contribute to data governance, cataloging, and lineage for the graph and its sources. Experience Required Engineer 2 Exp.: Practitioner: 1 coding language or framework. 7+ years in IT; 3+ years in development 2+ Years in AI and Graph EngineeringStrong software engineering in Java, Python, with production-grade testing, CI/CD, and code quality practices.Hands-on experience deploying data/AI systems to Production on a GCP-native stack: Vertex AI, BigQuery, Dataflow / Apache Beam, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run / GKE, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Build / Artifact Registry.Experience with graph data modeling and querying — property graphs and GQL / graph query patterns (BigQuery property graphs, or equivalent such as Neo4j/Spanner Graph).Hands-on experience with Vertex AI (Agents, model serving, embeddings) and evaluation of agent answer quality.Experience building LLM/agent systems: tool-use, RAG/grounding, and integrating models via APIs (e.g., Vertex AI or enterprise LLM gateways). Familiarity with MCP or comparable agent tool protocols.Observability expertise: Cloud Monitoring/Logging, OpenTelemetry, SLOs, dashboards, and alerting for data pipelines and services.Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and secure-by-default engineering (IAM, least privilege, secrets management).Ability to work directly with data producers to model and validate real-world industrial/enterprise data. Experience Preferred Familiarity with Dataplex / Data Catalog for governance, lineage, and business glossaries.Streaming/CDC and event-driven architectures; append-only/event-sourced data modeling.Design and build user-facing applications and dashboards that surface Knowledge Graph data to end users.Domain exposure to PLM / product development, manufacturing execution, quality, or supply-chain systems and their data.Data quality frameworks, schema evolution, and blue-green/zero-downtime data deployments. Education Required Bachelor's Degree Additional Info At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet . We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories . Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra . We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way. We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years ! FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused . We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest . Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies. 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