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About This Role
Overview: Job Purpose
We are on a mission as a team. We are problem solvers and partners, always starting with our customers to solve their challenges and create opportunities. Our start-up roots keep us nimble, flexible, and moving fast. We take ownership and make decisions. We all work for one company and work together to drive growth across the business. We engage in robust debates to find the best path, and then we move forward as one team. We take pride in what we do, acting with integrity and passion, so that our customers can perform better. We are experts and enthusiasts - combining ever-expanding knowledge with leading technology to consistently deliver results, solutions and opportunities for our customers and stakeholders. Every day we work toward transforming global markets.
The AI Platform Engineer is responsible for the technical implementation, maintenance, and optimization of AI/ML infrastructure. This hands-on role focuses on GPU cluster deployment, container image management, platform tooling development, and deep technical troubleshooting. In addition, the engineer deploys and maintains AI-enabled workflow automation tools across LLM, MCP, and agentic capabilities, ensuring these systems operate efficiently and securely within a containerized architecture. This includes deploying and maintaining vector store infrastructure, implementing end-to-end RAG workflows, tuning agent memory systems, and hosting and managing MCP servers. The engineer also deploys and operates Agentic AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration frameworks and tool-use pipelines. The engineer serves as a core technical contributor on the AI Platform Operations team, translating architectural decisions into working infrastructure and enabling advanced, automated workflows across the platform.
Responsibilities
- Deploy, configure, and maintain GPU clusters and associated infrastructure
- Designing, building, and maintaining the workflow automation platform that uses AI capabilities (LLM/MCP/Agentic capabilities)
- Manage NVIDIA driver versions, CUDA toolkits, and container runtimes
- Build and maintain approved container images with ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.)
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for GPU infrastructure
- Deploy and maintain vector store infrastructure for RAG pipelines, agent memory, and semantic search
- Implement and maintain end-to-end RAG workflows, including document ingestion, chunking, embedding generation, and retrieval optimization
- Maintain and tune agent memory systems, including short-term context windows, long-term persistent memory stores, and episodic memory retrieval patterns
- Deploy, operate, and maintain Agentic AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration frameworks and tool-use pipelines
- Deploy, host, and maintain MCP servers within the containerized platform infrastructure
- Manage MCP server configurations, versioning, access controls, and integration with agentic workflows
- Monitor MCP server health, performance, and availability; respond to incidents and perform root cause analysis
- Develop automation and tooling to improve platform reliability and efficiency
- Provide L2/L3 technical support and vendor escalation for complex issues
- Implement security controls including network policies, RBAC, and secrets management
- Execute change requests and maintain technical documentation
- Respond to and assist in production operations in a 24/7 environment
- Provide technical analysis, resolve problems, and propose solutions
- Provide support to, and coordinate with, developers, operations staff, release engineers, and end-users
- Educate and mentor team members and operations staff
- Participate in a weekly on-call rotation for after-hours support
Knowledge and Experience
- Bachelor's degree preferred.
- 3+ years in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, or DevOps
- 3+ years in scripting and automation skills (Python, Ansible, GitOps)
- 3+ years hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production
- 2+ years experience with Linux administration
- Direct experience with GPU infrastructure (NVIDIA preferred)
- 1+ years experience using CUDA
- 1+ years experience using MCPs
- 1+ years experience with vector databases and embedding infrastructure
- 1+ years experience with RAG pipeline design and deployment
- 1+ years experience with agent memory patterns (in-context, external stores, retrieval-augmented memory)
- 1+ years experience with agentic AI systems using orchestration frameworks
- 1+ years experience with semantic search, embedding models, and ANN search techniques
- 1+ years working with workflow/orchestrion automation tools
- Experience with enterprise monitoring and observability tools
- Ability to work in a service-oriented team environment
- Project Management, organization, and time management
- Customer focused, and dedicated to the best possible user experience
- Communicate effectively with both technical and business resources
- Fluent speaking, reading, and writing in English
Desired Knowledge and Experience
- 1+ years of experience with AI developer toolkits (NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, cuDNN, and NCCL)
- 1+ years of experience with Run:AI, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, or DGX systems
- 1+ years of experience with n8n
- 1+ years of experience with GitHub Actions
#LI-SH3 #LI-ONSITE -: Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.
Role Details
About This Role
AI/ML Engineers build and deploy machine learning models in production. They work across the full ML lifecycle: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure. The role has evolved significantly over the past two years. Where ML Engineers once spent most of their time on model architecture, the job now tilts heavily toward inference optimization, cost management, and integrating LLM capabilities into existing systems. Companies want engineers who can ship production systems, and the experimenter-only role is fading fast.
Day-to-day, you're writing training pipelines, debugging data quality issues, setting up evaluation frameworks, and figuring out why your model performs differently in staging than it did on your dev set. The best ML engineers are obsessive about reproducibility and measurement. They instrument everything. They know that a model is only as good as the data feeding it and the infrastructure serving it.
Across the 8,943 AI roles we're tracking, AI/ML Engineer positions make up 75% of the market. At Intercontinental Exchange, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
What the Work Looks Like
A typical week might include: debugging a data pipeline that's silently dropping 3% of training examples, running A/B tests on a new model version, writing documentation for a feature flag system that lets you roll back model deployments, and reviewing a junior engineer's PR for a new evaluation metric. Meetings tend to be cross-functional since ML touches product, engineering, and data teams.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
Skills Required
Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.
Beyond the core stack, employers increasingly want experience with experiment tracking tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases), feature stores, and vector databases. Fine-tuning experience is valuable but less common than you'd think from reading Twitter. Most production LLM work is RAG and prompt engineering, not fine-tuning. If you have both, you're in a strong position.
Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
Compensation Benchmarks
AI/ML Engineer roles pay a median of $212,000 based on 11,866 positions with disclosed compensation. Mid-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $193,200.
Across all AI roles, the market median is $213,380. Top-quartile compensation starts at $264,148. The 90th percentile reaches $319,310. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Safety ($253,100) and Research Engineer ($252,000). By seniority level: Entry: $110,408; Mid: $193,200; Senior: $228,700; Director: $272,250; VP: $235,000.
Intercontinental Exchange AI Hiring
Intercontinental Exchange has 1 open AI role right now. They're hiring across AI/ML Engineer. Based in Atlanta, GA, US.
Location Context
Across all AI roles, 6% (521 positions) offer remote work, while 8,351 require on-site attendance. Top AI hiring metros: New York (2,878 roles, $221,000 median); San Francisco (2,416 roles, $263,811 median); Los Angeles (1,340 roles, $210,000 median).
Career Path
Common paths into AI/ML Engineer roles include Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Research Engineer.
From here, career progression typically leads toward ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer.
The fastest path into ML engineering is through software engineering with a self-directed ML education. A CS degree helps, but production engineering skills matter more than academic credentials. Build something that works, deploy it, and measure it. That portfolio project is worth more than a Coursera certificate. For career growth, the fork comes around the senior level: go deep on technical complexity (staff/principal track) or move into managing ML teams.
What to Expect in Interviews
Expect system design questions around ML pipelines: how you'd build a training pipeline for a specific use case, handle data drift, or design A/B testing infrastructure for model deployments. Coding rounds typically involve Python, with emphasis on data manipulation (pandas, numpy) and algorithm implementation. Take-home assignments often ask you to build an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw data to deployed model.
When evaluating opportunities: Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
AI Hiring Overview
The AI job market has 8,943 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 175 entry-level, 4,132 mid-level, 3,268 senior, and 1,368 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 6% of the market (521 positions). The remaining 8,351 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.
The market median for AI roles is $213,380. Top-quartile compensation starts at $264,148. The 90th percentile reaches $319,310. Highest-paying categories: AI Safety ($253,100 median, 57 roles); Research Engineer ($252,000 median, 419 roles); AI Engineering Manager ($251,622 median, 51 roles).
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
The AI Job Market Today
The AI job market spans 8,943 open positions across 16 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (6,739), AI Product Manager (403), AI Software Engineer (402). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.
The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (175) are outnumbered by mid-level (4,132) and senior (3,268) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 1,368 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.
Remote work availability sits at 6% of all AI roles (521 positions), with 8,351 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.
AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $213,380. Top-quartile roles start at $264,148, and the 90th percentile reaches $319,310. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.
Category matters for compensation. AI Safety roles lead at $253,100 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $141,440. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.
The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Python (1,422 postings), Aws (808 postings), Azure (638 postings), Rag (555 postings), Gcp (457 postings), Pytorch (433 postings), Claude (341 postings), Kubernetes (337 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.
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