Senior AI Engineer — Production ML on GCP (Java/Python)

Synechron; New York (NY); On-site; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Global mobility

Paid annual leave

Comprehensive insurance

Retirement plans

Training opportunities

Udemy for Business access

Mentoring from FinLabs/CoE

Project opportunities with top banks

Job summary

Synechron seeks a hands-on Senior AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy production‑grade AI solutions. You will combine solid software engineering with practical experience in scalable AI systems, collaborating with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to deliver reliable results.

The role emphasizes Java and Python, GCP, and end-to-end AI deployments, including monitoring, security, and cost efficiency, with opportunities to work on cutting‑edge AI projects across the firm's

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on programming experience with Java and Python.
• Proven experience building and operating production AI/ML systems.
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform including deployment, monitoring, and security.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Solid understanding of ML concepts, model lifecycle management, data prep, evaluation, and inference.
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, version control, code quality, containerization, monitoring.
• Experience deploying applications with Docker and Kubernetes or GKE.
• Understanding of security, scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.
• Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain production‑grade AI and ML applications.
• Build scalable backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and AI platforms with Java and Python.
• Develop and integrate generative AI and ML solutions into enterprise apps.
• Deploy, monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot AI workloads on GCP.
• Utilize GCP services like Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage.
• Develop reliable model-serving and inference systems focusing on performance and cost.
• Implement production AI practices including model versioning, evaluation, and observability.
• Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to productionize models.
• Follow modern engineering practices and participate in architecture reviews.
• Investigate emerging AI technologies and assess applicability to business needs.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices for cloud-native delivery.

Skills

Java

Python

GCP

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Security & scalability

Communication

Tools

Vertex AI

BigQuery

Cloud Run

GKE

Pub/Sub

Cloud Functions

Job description

Synechron seeks a hands-on Senior AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy production‑grade AI solutions. You will combine solid software engineering with practical experience in scalable AI systems, collaborating with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to deliver reliable results.

The role emphasizes Java and Python, GCP, and end-to-end AI deployments, including monitoring, security, and cost efficiency, with opportunities to work on cutting‑edge AI projects across the firm's