AI/ML Engineer — NLP, LLMs & MLOps

Job overview

The AI/ML Engineer role is onsite in Minnetonka Mills, MN, with stated pay of $53–$56.81 per hour. The posting describes a six-month duration and a focus on machine learning, natural language processing, large language models, generative AI, and MLOps. The engineer turns data science prototypes into scalable, production-ready machine-learning services and pipelines. The role builds and deploys models, supports reliable model serving, and maintains production health through monitoring, drift detection, performance management, and incident response.

What you'll do

• Build, train, tune, and deploy machine-learning models
• translate prototypes into production-grade services and pipelines
• develop reproducible, versioned, and tested training and inference code
• implement online and offline model serving
• optimize batching, latency, throughput, and scalability
• integrate experiment tracking, model registries, deployment automation, and monitoring
• collaborate with Data Engineering on feature pipelines and data contracts
• and manage production ML health, including drift detection, performance regression, rollback strategies, and incident response.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

ai/ml engineer

onsite

minnetonka mills mn

talent software services

$53–$56.81/hr

machine learning

nlp

llms

genai

mlops

python

tensorflow

pytorch

databricks

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

The posting emphasizes production NLP and LLM experience, including RAG, vector databases, and embeddings, alongside MLOps and scalable model serving.

About the employer

Talent Software Services, Inc. is hiring for this role. Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services. Sector: 54.