AI & Machine Learning Ops Engineer

Accenture Federal Services is dedicated to helping the US federal government enhance national security and improve citizens' lives. They are seeking an AI & Machine Learning Ops Engineer to build and maintain AI and machine learning services, deploy and scale models, and collaborate with teams to advance the company's data platform.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain AI and machine learning services that support both real‑time web applications and parallel data‑pipeline workflows
• Deploy, scale, and operate AI/ML models using platforms such as Amazon Sagemaker and Amazon Bedrock (or comparable services on other cloud providers)
• Develop and support NLP and RAG‑based systems focused on clustering, summarization, and entity extraction from unstructured text
• Collaborate closely with a small machine learning team as well as web development and data engineering teams to advance the company’s data platform and modernization efforts

Requirements:

• US Citizen (Secret clearance eligible)
• 4+ years of experience using Python for AI and machine learning
• 3+ years of experience in natural language processing
• 2+ years of experience building and scaling real‑time and batch AI services using Amazon Sagemaker or a similar platform
• 1+ years of experience building and scaling real‑time generative AI services using Amazon Bedrock or OpenAI services
• 1+ years of experience evaluating and benchmarking AI models
• At least 1 year of experience with model quantization or other model‑optimization techniques
• Prior experience applying NLP for clustering, summarization, or entity extraction
• Experience operating machine learning models in production and improving them based on user feedback