Senior AI Engineer: End-to-End ML & Production Systems

Kanini Software Solutions; Nashville, Northern (TN, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Kanini Software Solutions, Inc. seeks a pioneering, fully autonomous Senior AI Engineer/Data Scientist to own the complete data science lifecycle for our flagship prediction model project.

This role is mission-critical—the candidate will be the single point of expertise responsible for sourcing, analyzing, and engineering all data that powers our predictive models. Operating independently with minimal supervision, this individual must combine deep AI/ML mastery, hands-on engineering skills, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on data science experience with at least 2 years delivering production-grade ML models.
• Ability to own and deliver end-to-end data science projects independently.
• Portfolio demonstrating innovation in predictive modeling and measurable business impact.
• Kaggle rankings, research publications, or open-source ML contributions are a strong plus.
• Experience in a fast-paced, data-driven, decision-model environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end analysis of large, multi-source datasets to surface patterns driving model inputs.
• Identify, collect, clean, validate, and transform data for prediction model consumption.
• Design and maintain scalable, production-grade data pipelines (training, validation, inference).
• Perform deep EDA, data profiling, and quality audits to ensure model-ready data standards.
• Architect, train, evaluate, and iterate ML models—supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement learning.
• Own feature engineering: selection, extraction, transformation, and dimensionality reduction.
• Apply deep learning, NLP, time-series forecasting, ensemble methods.
• Benchmark, A/B test, and monitor models in production; drive continuous improvement.
• Deploy models via REST APIs; ensure reproducibility and scalability.
• Communicate model results and data insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Document experiments, methodologies, and outcomes; audit-ready and reproducible.

Skills

Data science

End-to-end projects

Mentoring

Business impact

Fast-paced environment

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS/Statistics/Math

Tools

Python

SQL

Git/GitHub

CI/CD for ML

MLflow

Kubeflow

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Kanini Software Solutions, Inc. seeks a pioneering, fully autonomous Senior AI Engineer/Data Scientist to own the complete data science lifecycle for our flagship prediction model project.

This role is mission-critical—the candidate will be the single point of expertise responsible for sourcing, analyzing, and engineering all data that powers our predictive models. Operating independently with minimal supervision, this individual must combine deep AI/ML mastery, hands-on engineering skills, and