Junior AI Platform Engineer

Job Title: Junior AI Platform Engineer Company: Crowe Capability Center - India Job Category: Machine Learning Roles & Responsibilities: At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well\-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80\-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI\-enabled insights and technology\-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry. Job Description: The Junior AI Platform Engineer supports the development and operation of platforms used to deploy, integrate, scale, secure, and monitor AI and machine learning solutions. The role combines software engineering, backend development, cloud computing, containerization, DevOps, and AI platform fundamentals. Key Responsibilities * Assist in developing backend services supporting AI and machine learning workloads. * Develop and test REST APIs using Python or another approved programming language. * Integrate machine learning models and Generative AI services with enterprise applications. * Package applications and services using Docker and support deployment to Kubernetes environments. * Assist with asynchronous jobs, background processing, scheduled workloads, and service\-to\-service communication. * Support cloud configuration, infrastructure automation, release pipelines, and environment management. * Implement input validation, error handling, logging, telemetry, and API documentation. * Support identity, access control, secret management, network security, and responsible data handling. * Write unit, integration, API, and basic load tests. * Investigate defects and production issues, escalating complex problems with evidence and impact details. * Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, backlog refinement, demonstrations, and technical documentation. * Collaborate with Machine Learning, Product Engineering, Product Support, and business teams. API and Backend Development * Create and maintain Docker configurations. * Support Kubernetes deployments, services, configuration, secrets, and scaling. * Learn Azure compute, networking, storage, identity, monitoring, serverless, and AI services. * Use Git and GitHub\-based workflows. * Support automated build, test, security\-check, and deployment pipelines. * Maintain deployment, environment, and operational documentation. * Monitor service health and investigate failures or performance bottlenecks. * Follow platform security, access control, vulnerability management, and data\-handling standards. * Support reliability, scalability, availability, and disaster\-recovery practices. * Exposure to Microsoft Azure. * Familiarity with FastAPI, Flask, ASP.NET Core, Node.js, or a similar backend framework. * Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps. * Exposure to Azure AI Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, Azure OpenAI, or Power Platform. * Basic understanding of queues, caching, serverless functions, asynchronous processing, OAuth, managed identities, role\-based access control, and secrets management. * Python, object\-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms * Linux, shell fundamentals, Git, and GitHub workflows * HTTP, HTTPS, JSON, REST APIs, webhooks, and WebSockets * FastAPI or an equivalent backend framework * SQL, relational databases, and basic NoSQL concepts * Docker and container fundamentals * Kubernetes architecture, deployments, services, configuration, security, and scaling * Azure fundamentals, App Service, Functions, Container Apps, and Azure Kubernetes Service * Azure AI Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure OpenAI integration * CI/CD with GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps * Logging, monitoring, alerts, telemetry, testing, identity, secrets, and application security Develop an AI\-enabled API, package it in Docker, apply automated tests, and deploy it through a basic CI/CD pipeline to an approved cloud or simulated environment. We are committed to a merit\-based hiring process, evaluating all candidates consistently using objective, job\-related criteria such as relevant experience, demonstrated skills, measurable impact, and alignment with the role’s responsibilities, and making employment decisions in a fair and inclusive manner free from discrimination. Work Location: Telangana, India Availability: Full time

Required Qualifications and Skills * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Electronics, or a related field. * 1 year of experience, including internships, academic projects, or personal projects. * Programming knowledge in Python, C\#, Java, JavaScript, or a similar language. * Understanding of object\-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, HTTP, REST APIs, JSON, databases, and SQL. * Basic familiarity with Linux command\-line operations. * Strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, collaboration, and documentation skills. Our Benefits: At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We value our people and offer employees a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you! Key Skills: Machine Learning, Python Salary: Not disclosed