About Careertakes

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About the Role

This entry-level role is for students completing a bachelor’s degree in Spring 2027. As an AI Platform Engineer at a confidential client, you’ll help build backend services, developer tooling, and shared platform capabilities that power production AI products for enterprise and government customers. You will own scoped projects (APIs, data pipelines, developer tools), collaborate with Product and ML teams, and receive mentorship from experienced engineers.

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What You’ll Work On

• Design and build backend services and data pipelines that power AI products; own implementation, testing, and maintenance for scoped projects.
• Build developer tooling that accelerates ML product development, including experiment tracking, artifact management, and automated training/eval pipelines.
• Design modular, reusable components and clean APIs (REST, gRPC); profile and optimize for latency and throughput.
• Help harden systems for enterprise and government use — testing, failure handling, retries, and idempotency.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and ML teams to remove bottlenecks and reduce time to production.

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You Might Be a Great Fit If You…

• Expect to complete a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field in Spring 2027.
• Have solid foundations in data structures, algorithms, and databases, and familiarity with API design and testing.
• Are comfortable writing and debugging code in at least one language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, Rust, Java, or C++.
• Have built a backend service, API, data-intensive application, or developer tool via internship, coursework, research, or personal project.
• Are curious about systems internals and eager to learn distributed systems topics (consistency, failure handling, retries).
• Care about intuitive, well-documented, maintainable APIs and shared developer tools.
• Enjoy breaking down open-ended problems into clear technical designs and communicating your ideas.
• Take ownership of your work and proactively seek feedback to improve over time.

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Job Details & Benefits

• Eligibility: Completing a bachelor’s degree in Spring 2027.
• Employment type: Full-time (note: source lists CONTRACTOR and FULL_TIME; the role is intended as full-time new-grad employment).
• Estimated compensation (source): $131,896 per year — estimated.
• Competitive full-time compensation and benefits.
• Support and mentorship from experienced platform engineers.
• Opportunity to work on real production systems used globally.
• Meaningful ownership from day one and room to grow.
• Daily lunches (if onsite).

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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