About this IC1 - ML Platform & Full stack AI Engineer role at Protolabs
Join the team as our new ML Platform & Fullstack AI Engineer – India
You will be responsible for building and scaling the foundational AI platform that enables production-ready AI solutions across the organization. Working at the intersection of AI infrastructure, software engineering, and systems integration, you will help establish the tools, frameworks, and integrations required to deploy and operate AI and GenAI applications at scale.
What You'll Do:
Build & Scale the AI Platform Foundation
- Design, build, and maintain the ML platform from the ground up, including experiment tracking, model registries, model serving, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring capabilities.
- Establish scalable infrastructure standards and engineering best practices that enable rapid AI solution development and deployment.
- Contribute to the creation of reusable AI platform components that support multiple use cases across the organization.
- Drive platform reliability, observability, security, and scalability from design through production.
- Own and enhance the infrastructure supporting GenAI applications, including vector databases, LLM serving frameworks, retrieval systems, and evaluation frameworks.
- Design and implement scalable Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and supporting infrastructure.
- Build and maintain evaluation, monitoring, and observability frameworks for AI and GenAI systems.
- Support the deployment and operationalization of both classical machine learning models and GenAI applications.
- Design and implement robust data pipelines that power machine learning and GenAI solutions in production environments.
- Develop integration layers that reliably connect AI services and outputs with existing enterprise systems and business applications.
- Build APIs, services, and distributed system components that support scalable AI product delivery.
- Collaborate closely with AI engineers, software engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders to ensure seamless adoption of AI solutions.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to accelerate the deployment of AI use cases into production.
- Ensure AI solutions meet requirements for reliability, performance, security, and maintainability.
- Support the evaluation and adoption of emerging AI technologies, tools, and frameworks.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of the AI development ecosystem.
- 3+ years of experience in ML Platform Engineering, AI Infrastructure Engineering, MLOps, Software Engineering, or related fields.
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining ML platforms, including experiment tracking, model registries, model serving, and ML CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong experience with ML infrastructure tools such as MLflow, Weights & Biases (W&B), or similar platforms.
- Experience building and supporting GenAI infrastructure, including vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector), LLM serving frameworks, and RAG architectures.
- Knowledge of AI evaluation and observability tools such as RAGAS, LangSmith, or equivalent solutions.
- Experience working with cloud-native AI and ML services, preferably AWS SageMaker.
- Strong software engineering skills, including API development, distributed systems design, and backend application development.
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience integrating AI systems with enterprise applications through REST APIs, message queues, and service-based architectures.
- Understanding of infrastructure automation, monitoring, scalability, and production-grade system design.
- Ability to work effectively within Agile teams and cross-functional environments.
- Strong analytical and systematic problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to balance technical excellence with practical business outcomes.
- Effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate across global teams and functions.
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced environments where processes and platforms are still evolving.
- Builder mentality with a passion for creating scalable platforms and systems from the ground up.
- Strong ownership mindset with a focus on delivering reliable and maintainable solutions.
- Curiosity to explore emerging AI technologies while maintaining engineering rigor.
- Systems-thinking approach that prioritizes scalability, reliability, observability, and long-term maintainability.
- Passion for enabling others by creating platforms and tools that accelerate innovation.
Develop AI & GenAI Infrastructure
Build Data Pipelines & Production Integrations
Enable AI Use Case Delivery
What It Takes:
Technical
Collaboration & Problem Solving
Mindset
What Good Looks Like
- You have built or significantly contributed to an ML platform in a production environment.
- You have successfully productionized both traditional machine learning models and GenAI applications end-to-end.
- You naturally think about scalability, reliability, monitoring, and observability before implementation begins.
- You are equally comfortable building AI infrastructure and developing the software integrations that connect AI capabilities to real business systems.
- You enjoy solving complex engineering challenges while creating foundations that other teams can build upon.
Location: Hyderabad, India (Onsite)