Software Engineer - AI/ML Infrastructure and MLOps

NielsenIQ; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environment

Volunteer time off

LinkedIn Learning

Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

Job summary

NIQ is seeking a Mid Software Engineer to join our AI/ML platform team in Pune. You will collaborate with engineers, data scientists and Scrum Masters to build training pipelines, deploy ML models on AzureML, and deliver scalable services through RESTful APIs.

You will work on data processing, real-time responses, and evaluating open-source tools, while maintaining documentation and supporting CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.

Qualifications

• 4-5 years of software development experience with Python & RESTful APIs.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and scalable design.
• Experience with Linux, SQL databases and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain scalable AI/ML infrastructure to deliver real-time responses.
• Develop pipelines for training and deployment of ML models.
• Coordinate with leads for feasibility analyses and troubleshoot data/app issues.
• Collaborate with engineers to promote best practices and team cohesion.
• Work with data scientists and users to ensure compatibility and satisfaction.
• Contribute to documentation with diagrams and manuals.
• Evaluate new technologies and open-source tools.

Skills

Python

RESTful APIs

Data structures & algorithms

English communication

Agile/Scrum

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Airflow

Jenkins

Kafka

GitHub Actions

SQL

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Pandas

NumPy

Flask

SQLAlchemy

Job description

Software Engineer Job Description

As a Mid Engineer, you will collaborate with other Engineers, Development teams & Scrum Masters to realize critical business goals and be part of a team of smart, highly skilled technologists who are passionate about learning, data mining and prototyping cutting-edge technologies. We develop mostly in Python and what we do is to help our Research team to put in production ML models, so we work mostly in building training pipelines (mostly in AzureML), integrating inference codes, and providing tools and patterns for enhancing our MLOps cycle.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain a scalable infrastructure to deliver AI/ML processes, responding to the user requests in near real time.
• Develop the pipelines for training and deployment of ML models.
• Co-ordinate with the leads to perform feasibility studies/analysis with a critical point of view and support & maintain (troubleshoot issues with data and applications).
• Co-ordinating with other engineers, fostering good engineering practices within the team.
• Working with data scientists and a variety of end-users (across diverse cultures) to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction.
• Work as a member of a team, encouraging team building, motivation and cultivating effective team relations.
• Use distributed computing to validate and process large volumes of data to deliver insights.
• Evaluate technologies we can leverage, including open-source frameworks, libraries, and tools.
• Develop technical documentation for applications, including sequence diagrams, flowcharts and manuals.

Qualifications

• 4-5 years of applicable software development experience, including Python & RESTful APIs.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms and designing for performance, scalability and availability.
• Strong knowledge of Pandas, NumPy, Flask & Sqlalchemy python libraries.
• Ability to design and develop relational databases which include writing efficient and well performing SQL, such as MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Strong knowledge of Node.js and TypeScript.
• Ability to create Rest APIs and experience in Microservices architecture.
• Orchestration and messaging frameworks: Airflow, Jenkins, Messaging queue frameworks (Kafka)
• Experience in Azure or any cloud computing technology.
• Experience and knowledge in Linux & container orchestrators (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm.)
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar platforms.
• Experience in using collaborative developing tools such as Git, Confluence, Jira, etc.
• Experience with software testing methodologies, including unit testing, integration testing, and API testing.
• Experience in Agile methodologies development (Scrum/Kanban).
• Excellent English communication skills, with the ability to effectively interface across cross-functional technology teams and the business.
• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.

Additional Information

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

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About NIQ

NIQ is the world's leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights-delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms-NIQ delivers the Full View. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world's population. For more information, visit NIQ.com

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