Senior AI/ML Data Engineer — Multilingual NLP & MLOps

GCI, Inc.; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 164,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

GCI, Inc. is seeking an AI/ML Data Engineer to advance Human Language Technologies, focusing on refining translation capabilities and training models for top languages in a triage tool.

The role centers on building data pipelines, ML workflows, and production-ready solutions leveraging AWS. You will collaborate with Data Scientists to deliver scalable ML systems, manage datasets, and enable low-resource language support while maintaining robust MLOps practices in a fast-paced mission-focused

Qualifications

• Experience training, fine-tuning, evaluating, and optimizing ML models using modern frameworks and best practices.
• Familiarity with DevOps and MLOps principles, including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring, version control, and software delivery practices.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and AI/ML offerings (S3, EC2, IAM, VPC, SageMaker, Bedrock, Lambda).
• Experience developing and deploying containerized applications using Docker.

Responsibilities

• Develop, fine-tune, evaluate, and optimize multilingual machine translation models (NLLB, Opus-MT, MarianMT) to improve translation quality for low-resource languages.
• Build, preprocess, and manage multilingual text and speech datasets for model training, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and end-to-end MLOps workflows for data ingestion, model training, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Develop and deploy cloud-native machine learning solutions using AWS services such as SageMaker, Step Functions, and Bedrock.
• Deploy and support machine learning models in production using containerized environments and CI/CD best practices.
• Engineer features and optimize datasets to improve machine learning model performance.
• Conduct testing, validation, benchmarking, and troubleshooting of ML models and data pipelines.
• Research and evaluate emerging AI, ML, NLP, and speech technologies for mission applications.

Skills

DevOps

MLOps

ML

NLP

PyTorch

Transformer models

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

SageMaker

Bedrock

Docker

Job description

GCI, Inc. is seeking an AI/ML Data Engineer to advance Human Language Technologies, focusing on refining translation capabilities and training models for top languages in a triage tool.

The role centers on building data pipelines, ML workflows, and production-ready solutions leveraging AWS. You will collaborate with Data Scientists to deliver scalable ML systems, manage datasets, and enable low-resource language support while maintaining robust MLOps practices in a fast-paced mission-focused