Machine Learning Engineer

Velvetech is an American global software development company headquartered in Miami, FL, and with an office in Chicago, IL. Velvetech has its developers strategically distributed in 10+ global technical job markets to deliver the best in class software engineering and exceptional client services.

We have 20+ years of experience in software and hardware development for clients all around the world, especially for US clients. As an official Microsoft Gold Partner, our company is listed in the top 5 software development companies in Illinois, USA.

US clients are leading trading and financial organizations, insurance companies, large healthcare associations, pharmaceutical and energy companies, equipment manufacturers, hi-tech startups, etc.

Areas of expertise are consulting, development, implementation, and support of software solutions. We implement modern backend solutions that support microservices architecture with the following technologies: NET Core, Node.js, Java, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ. For the web UI front-end development, we opt for React, or Angular, and for mobile development — Swift, Kotlin, Java. Most of the systems are designed for cloud infrastructures like AWS, Azure, GCP, and heavily rely on Docker, Kubernetes while modern CI/CD is made using GitLab CI or TeamCity. In September 2021, Velvetech LLC received the status of the official Training Provider of the International Institute of Business Analysis. This status gives us the right to conduct regular quality trainings for Business Analysts and anyone performing BA activities regardless their job title.

Principles are based on Agile Methodology, Scrum and Kanban. Various projects coded in GitLab or GitHub are built with multiple coordinated teams, collaborating via Jira, Confluence, MS Teams, and Slack. Velvetech constantly follows the Tech trends and actively cooperates with startups in such breakthrough areas as Machine Learning, the Internet of Things, Blockchain, FPGA, and AI.

Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced AI/ML Automation Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will have a strong background in working with AI models, creating custom workspaces for ChatGPT, and connecting external data sources for model training. This role will involve building of data processing with the use of GPT4 and developing AI-based agents to automate various business tasks.

Key Responsibilities: Develop AI-based agents to automate business tasks.

• Automate tasks related to product acceptance, warehouse operations (working with the catalog -10-15 million product units from different retailers, processing products in warehouses, making automated decisions on what is more profitable to do with this product based on the analysis of various factors (seasonality, etc.) – sell or return to the manufacturer, etc.
• Categorize incoming products by UPC (Universal Product Code). If no matching is found, create a new product card and fill in all the data (name, description, attributes, cost). Currently, this is done manually and prone to errors. The goal is to fully automate these tasks using AI.

Requirements

• Proven experience in AI/ML and NLP
• Experience in creating custom workspaces for Chat GPT
• Experience of building data processing automation on top of GPT4
• Experience with Prompt Engineering
• Experience with TensorFlow and PyTorch (desired)
• Programming skills: Python, C#, or Javascript
• Understanding how REST API is built, knowledge of SQL
• Ability to connect external data sources for model training
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environment

Benefits

• Working in the TOP 5 development companies in Illinois, USA
• FLEXIBLE working conditions and a COOPERATIVE environment
• Competitive salary
• Many CHALLENGING and exciting projects with new opportunities and learning
• GROWTH opportunities, skills and competencies improvement, and professional certification
• In-company TRAINING (English, Software / DevOps / Project management / Design / Business)

What we offer

Future projects as highly loaded SaaS web-based services for automating business processes in the field of medicine, insurance, finance, energy, including modules for processing large data arrays, billing subsystems, integration with external data sources, mobile applications, and IP telephony systems.

Our team

We are a friendly team of 150+ professionals where everyone is able to achieve high results and grows professionally not only due to their own knowledge and skills but also with the support of colleagues. Values that we highly appreciate are high performance, responsibility, respect, and loyalty. In order to have a highly motivated team, Velvetech invests in their people, additional education, certification, and others. You choose your career path and we are here to support you!

People work together in harmony, encouraging each other to continuously learn, progress, and pursue perfection. Our employees enjoy working as we turn challenges into advantages to share success with each other.

You have a chance to become a part of a friendly and professional team that creates robust software solutions to deliver maximum value to our international clients. Start your journey today!