AI Platform Engineer

🇺🇸 Omaha, NE 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $60K 💻 Software Engineering 🗓️ January 31st, 2026

LMS Python Kubernetes

Edtech.com's Summary

University of Nebraska Omaha is hiring an AI Platform Engineer. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining an AI platform that integrates foundational models and supports the creation of large language model (LLM) stacks, collaborating across research, education, training, and engineering to enable scalable and ethical AI solutions.

Highlights

Design and implement AI platforms integrating open-source and proprietary foundational models for research and enterprise applications.
Develop, optimize, and maintain LLM stacks for use cases like NLP, computer vision, and recommendation systems.
Create scalable APIs and architect infrastructure for model training, fine-tuning, and deployment.
Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including researchers and stakeholders to apply cutting-edge AI technologies.
Ensure security, compliance, and ethical standards for AI models and data pipelines.
Monitor platform performance and troubleshoot issues to optimize user experience.
Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance on AI platform best practices.
Required skills include proficiency in Python, Java or C++, foundational AI models (GPT, BERT), cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and MLOps tools.
Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or related field with experience designing and maintaining AI infrastructure.
Preferred qualifications: Master's degree and 2+ years of AI/ML engineering experience focused on LLMs and AI platform development.