Associate AI​/ML Developer

Description

iSoftStone, Inc. is seeking an Associate AI Developer to help build and ship production-grade AI services. This training‑based, early‑career role is ideal for recent graduates eager to grow into hands‑on AI engineers, working alongside senior developers on real client projects spanning agentic applications, orchestration, observability, and computer vision—across a cloud‑agnostic stack.

Locations:
New York, NY;
Seattle, WA;
Dallas, TX (Hybrid opportunity).

• Build AI services: develop and help deploy services and micro‑services that integrate LLMs and classical ML (real‑time APIs, batch, and event‑driven workloads).
• Agentic & orchestration: contribute to agent workflows and tool‑use orchestration using frameworks such as Lang Chain, with structured I/O via Pydantic.
• Vision & deep learning: help develop and integrate CNNs and vision models (classification, detection, OCR) into production pipelines.
• Observability: instrument services with logging, tracing, and evaluation hooks; help monitor quality, latency, cost, and drift.
• Cloud‑agnostic delivery: build AI integrations on AWS, Azure, or NVIDIA tooling—and with open‑source models—favoring portable, well‑tested code.
• Quality & collaboration: write tests from specs, join code reviews and design discussions, and respond constructively to feedback.

• Education:
  
  recently graduated from a degree/certificate program in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience:
  
  up to 2 years of practical experience (internships, co‑ops, or substantial academic/personal projects) developing software or AI applications.
• AI cloud services: hands‑on exposure building AI services and integrations with one or more of AWS (Bedrock, Sage Maker), Azure (AI Foundry/AI Studio, Azure OpenAI), NVIDIA (CUDA, NIM, Triton), or open‑source (Lang Chain, Pydantic, Python).
• Programming: solid Python foundation plus software engineering fundamentals (version control, testing, APIs, clean code).
• Mindset: cloud‑agnostic and portability‑minded; strong problem‑solver; open to learning and feedback in a fast‑paced environment.

• Familiarity with agentic patterns, tool‑use orchestration, or the Model Context Protocol (MCP); RAG and vector search (Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS).
• Exposure to deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, Tensor Flow), MLOps/observability (MLflow, Open Telemetry), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), or CI/CD.
• Prior internship, capstone, or project work involving AI, data, or cloud services.
• Education:
  
  BS/MS/certificate program in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, Data Science or related field; equivalent experience considered.

Primary Location Pay Range: $20 per hour.

iSoftStone is committed to the practice of equal opportunity for all its employees and applicants in employment, and does not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity, color, age, national origin, religion, creed, marital status, sex, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, status as an honorably discharged veteran or disabled veteran or military status, political affiliation or belief, citizenship/status as a lawfully admitted immigrant authorized to work in the United States, or presence of any physical, sensory, or mental disability.

In addition, reasonable accommodation will be made for known physical or mental limitations for all otherwise qualified persons with disabilities.