Senior Google Cloud AI Engineer — Secure, Scalable ML

Credence; North Dakota; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan

401k/IRA

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Family Leave

Disability Insurance

Training & Development

Job summary

Credence is seeking a Senior Google AI Engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade AI systems on Google Cloud for a high-visibility Department of War program. You will translate mission needs into secure, scalable AI/ML solutions and guide data, platform, and application engineers to meet requirements.

The role demands deep GCP/Looker/Vertex AI expertise, strong MLOps, data engineering fluency, and experience delivering in regulated DoD contexts.

Qualifications

• US citizenship with ability to obtain DoW secret clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of AI/ML engineering and MLOps experience, with production on Google Cloud.
• Google Associate Cloud Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect certification or ability to obtain in 90 days.
• Must have DoW Cyber Baseline Certification or ability to obtain within 90 days.
• Experience extracting data from SAP Enterprise Applications.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Go/TypeScript for AI services.
• Hands-on with LLMs/GenAI, vector databases, RAG, evaluation and guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver end-to-end AI/ML solutions on Google Cloud using Vertex AI and Gemini/LLM services.
• Develop production data pipelines with BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc; integrate Pub/Sub; containerize with Cloud Run and GKE.
• Implement robust MLOps: experiment tracking, eval, bias testing, model versioning, retraining, drift detection.
• Apply secure-by-design patterns: VPC-SC, CMEK, IAM, secrets management per NIST RMF and FedRAMP.
• Operationalize LLM/GenAI with RAG, tool-use, safety filters and evaluation harnesses.
• Partner with mission stakeholders to elicit requirements, drive measurable value, and mentor engineers.
• Contribute to program roadmaps, architectures, controls and SOPs for sustained operations.

Skills

Python

Go

TypeScript

MLOps

Vertex AI

BigQuery

Data engineering

Cloud security

Education

Bachelors in CS/Engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Vertex AI

BigQuery

Dataflow

Dataproc

Looker

GKE/Cloud Run

Cloud Build

Pub/Sub

Job description

Credence is seeking a Senior Google AI Engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade AI systems on Google Cloud for a high-visibility Department of War program. You will translate mission needs into secure, scalable AI/ML solutions and guide data, platform, and application engineers to meet requirements.

The role demands deep GCP/Looker/Vertex AI expertise, strong MLOps, data engineering fluency, and experience delivering in regulated DoD contexts.