AI/ML Engineer

About the Position

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Overview

At NetApp, our High Achievement Principles shape how we work: we innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel as a team. We have a history of helping customers turn challenges into business opportunities. That’s because we bring new thinking to age-old problems, like how to use data most effectively in the most efficient possible way. As an AI/ML Engineer with NetApp, you’ll have the opportunity to work with modern cloud and container orchestration technologies in a production setting. You’ll play an important role in scaling systems sustainably through automation and evolving them by pushing for changes to improve reliability and velocity.

Responsibilities

• Design and build intelligent AI agents capable of reasoning, planning, tool use, and multi-step task execution.
• Architect and optimize LLM-powered systems including token optimization, cost-efficient inference, prompt engineering frameworks, and caching mechanisms.
• Build and scale advanced RAG pipelines with hybrid search, re-ranking, agentic retrieval, and dynamic knowledge base integration.
• Develop and maintain MLOps pipelines for model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring at scale.
• Fine-tune and customize foundation models for domain-specific use cases in storage, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise operations.
• Build large-scale, fault-tolerant, low-latency distributed systems for real-time AI inference.
• Contribute to POCs and incubation projects that shape NetApp's AI/ML roadmap and long-term product vision.
• Explore unconventional AI architectures - including multi-modal AI, edge inference, and distributed training.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, data scientists, and product teams from problem definition through deployment and early customer support.
• Stay current with the evolving AI/ML landscape and drive adoption of emerging models, frameworks, and techniques that deliver business value.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of hands-on experience deploying AI/ML solutions in production, with deep expertise in AI agents, LLM integration and optimization, RAG architectures, and modern ML frameworks.
• Proficiency in Python is required, along with working knowledge of Go and front-end frameworks (React/Streamlit/Gradio).
• Strong experience with vector databases, MLOps practices, containerized deployment (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud AI/ML services (AWS SageMaker, Azure ML, GCP Vertex AI).
• A solid foundation in classical ML/DL fundamentals, distributed systems, and software engineering best practices is essential.

Nice to Have

• Experience in the storage/cloud domain is a strong plus.
• We value strong communicators who are passionate about responsible AI, quality, and meeting deadlines.

Education

• Bachelor/Master of Engineering in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field or equivalent experience.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a hybrid working environment
• Professional growth and development opportunities

About the Company

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment-you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now.