AI/ML Platform Engineer
CACI International1 day ago
Lisle, IL, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$90k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect a greenfield implementation of LLM-enabled technologies for agentic workflows.
- Deploy, operate, and monitor open-weight LLMs on local Kubernetes clusters.
- Design, build, and maintain RAG pipelines involving document investigation, chunking, embedding, retrieval, and reranking.
- Develop and maintain Model Context Protocol servers and integrations with existing services.
- Coach teams on MCP design and usage best practices.
- Support automated testing environments and software development environments.
- Collaborate with development teams on CI/CD pipelines.
- Instrument tracing and evaluation tools to measure and improve product cycles.
- Provide requirements for network infrastructure supporting model-serving performance and accessibility.
- Support change management systems and complex inter-networked systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related scientific or technical discipline with at least four years of related experience, or a similar master’s degree with at least two years of related experience.
- TS/SCI clearance is required to begin employment.
- Experience supporting small- to mid-sized organizations with 100 or more users.
- Experience analyzing, designing, implementing, and supporting large, complex, inter-networked systems.
- Familiarity with software development using Python, SQL, and Java.
- Experience writing data pipelines with Airflow, Spark, Apache Iceberg, or dbt.
- Experience managing AI/ML infrastructure with Kubernetes, KServe, vLLM, Langfuse, Elasticsearch, and Terraform.
- Experience supporting GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- Understanding of RAG, MCP servers, QLoRA, and artifact repositories such as Nexus.
- Understanding of data warehousing and pipelines using open and proprietary sources.
- Strong information technology knowledge, communication, organization, teamwork, initiative, ownership, and ability to work with limited supervision.
- Knowledge of requirements definition, analysis, design, implementation, networks, security, and IT system lifecycle support.
Benefits
- Full-time, in-office work arrangement with occasional local travel and up to 10% travel required.
- CACI offers flexible time off, healthcare, wellness, financial and retirement benefits, family support, continuing education, learning and development resources, and other time-off benefits.
- CACI can provide clearance sponsorship for qualified individuals.
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About CACI International
CACI International is a public government contractor that delivers enterprise IT, cybersecurity, electronic warfare, space, and intelligence solutions to U.S. defense, intelligence, and federal civilian customers. It provides systems engineering, software and data services, and mission support across C4ISR and business systems, primarily through long-term government contracts. Founded in 1962 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, CACI trades on the NYSE under the ticker CACI.