Nelnet is a diversified and innovative company committed to enriching lives through the power of service as a student loan servicer professional services company consumer loan originator and servicer payments processor renewable energy solutions and K-12 and higher education expert. For over 40 years Nelnet has been serving its customers associates and communities.

The perks of working at Nelnet go beyond our benefits package. When you join the Nelnet team youre part of a community invested in the success of each individual. That support comes through in our work as we are united by our mission of creating opportunities for people where they live learn and work.

Key Responsibilities

Agentic AI Expertise: Design build and optimize AI Agents using advanced methods (e.g. Naïve Bayes Random Forests) and understand their impact on agent performance.

AI Communication: Explain AI concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences; facilitate training and pilot projects.

IT Infrastructure: Work across multi-cloud and on-premises environments selecting appropriate cloud-native resources (e.g. AWS Bedrock GCP Vertex AI Docker Kubernetes MongoDB BigQuery) to support AI initiatives.

Use Case Evaluation: Assess and recommend AI technologies and techniques (e.g. GPT-4.0 Anthropic Claude RAG Neo4j GraphRAG multimodal AI IBM Bee-Hive) for various business needs.

Education & Advocacy: Serve as an AI advocate coaching and empowering teams to develop and deploy AI Agents.

Responsible AI: Apply best practices in AI governance security and compliance (e.g. NIST OWASP ATLAS-MITRE GDPR).

Full Stack Development: Build AI Agents end-to-end using tools such as VS Code Python JavaScript pyspark scikit-learn Jupyter SQL.

Model Development: Develop train and fine-tune machine learning models and large language models (LLMs).

Required Qualifications

Bachelors degree in AI/ML Engineering Computer Science Data Science or a related field (or equivalent experience).

1 years experience creating end-to-end agentic workflows.

Ability to obtain a U.S. 6C Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

Masters or PhD in AI/ML Engineering Computer Science Data Science or related fields.

24 years of industry and/or full stack development experience.

Experience in product development ownership and delivery.

Experience building multi-agent ecosystems and agent-to-agent connections.

Salary range for this role is: $70k-$135k

This position requires work in support of the Companys contract with the United States Department of Education (ED). As such the United States Government requires that any applicant for this position must complete United States Government security clearance. Effective June 1 2018 ED has informed Nelnet that security clearance applications for foreign nationals are not being accepted or light of this direction from ED Nelnet will be unable to hire applicants without United States citizenship for such positions.

Our benefits package includes medical dental vision HSA and FSA generous earned time off 401K/student loan repayment life insurance & AD&D insurance employee assistance program employee stock purchase program tuition reimbursement performance-based incentive pay short- and long-term disability and a robust wellness program. Click here to learn more about our benefits: LINK.

Nelnet is committed to providing a welcoming and respectful workplace where all associates have the opportunity to succeed. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we ensure that all qualified applicants are considered for employment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion/creed national origin gender sex marital status age disability use of a guide dog or service animal sexual orientation military/veteran status or any other status protected by federal state or local law. We value the unique contributions of every team member and believe that a positive work environment benefits everyone.

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Nelnet is a Drug Free and Tobacco Free Workplace.