AI Platform Engineer

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here :

At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you're trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That's why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

Job Description : About Crowe AI

Everything we do is about making the future of human work more purposeful. We do this by leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning, modern architectures, and industry experts, to create AI-powered solutions that transform the way we do business.

As a member of AI Engineering, you are a builder excited to realize an AI idea's impact at scale, distinguishing Crowe in the market and driving the firm's technology and innovation strategy.

About the Team

We foster good science . You are given the time and resources to build your expertise in your project and beyond; you will guide fellow MLEs and product stakeholders through your work.

We want to make good scientists better . MLEs have plenty of options on the job market. We want to be one of the best. We have regular ethics and book club meetings, monthly lightning talks where team members teach each other, support for conferences, and weekly "10P" independent time for ongoing learning.

We truly value work-life balance. Our distributed team offers unlimited PTO and a flexible work-from-home policy. We actively discourage weekend and off-hours work (unless that's genuinely your thing).

About the Role

You will be responsible for developing and maintaining scalable APIs and Kubernetes environments that support the deployment and operation of machine learning models at Crowe. Your role is crucial in ensuring that our AI solutions are robust, efficient, and meaningfully transform business offerings.

Design and development of backend services supporting AI workloads, including REST / gRPC APIs, job orchestration, asynchronous task processing, data / model lifecycle management, and service-to-service communication.

Design, build, and maintain scalable and robust APIs that integrate with Crowe's machine learning models.

Deploy and manage Kubernetes environments to ensure the reliable operation of our AI systems.

Collaborate with Machine Learning Engineers teams to take AI solutions from Proof of Concept to production readiness.

Implement system architectures that support scaling and distributed computing needs.

Ensure the stability and security of AI deployments through design and execution of rigorous testing and monitoring.

Required Skills

4-8 years' experience maintaining production-grade APIs.

Software engineering experience in a production environment, with a strong background in system design and architecture.

Expertise in programming languages such as Python and JavaScript . You're experienced writing scalable, production-level code sufficient to thoroughly review code and mentor on general programming best practices.

Solid understanding of scaling strategies and distributed computing principles.

Demonstrated interface savviness, including experience creating and interacting with RESTful HTTPS API's, websockets, and webhooks.

Experience with at least one Cloud Computing platform (experience with Microsoft Azure a plus).

Experience with serverless functions, e.g., OpenFaaS

Preferred Skills

Power Platform, Azure AI Studio, and other Microsoft stack exposure for AI solution deployment.

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification or similar credentials.

Demonstrated commitment to DevOps best practices and continuous improvement.

You want to stay fresh with regards to practicing engineering. Continuous improvement is a mantra for you as any system you work with gradually improves over time.

You enjoy machine learning. You've gone deeper than reading blog posts and playing around with ChatGPT.

We appreciate talent from all over the United States and are willing to consider candidates who may not be located near a Crowe office location for this role / opening.

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We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe's values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Crowe is not sponsoring for work authorization at this time.

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Crowe, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $94,500.00 - $212,500.00 per year.

Our Benefits :

Your exceptional people experience starts here. At Crowe, we know that great peopleare what makes a great firm. We care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!

How You Can Grow :

We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!

More about Crowe :

Crowe (www.crowe.com) is one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the United States. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities while also helping clients reach their goals with tax, advisory, risk and performance services. Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the country's best places to work. Crowe serves clients worldwide as an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 130 countries around the world.

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