AI Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create and implement agentic AI systems that are capable of making autonomous decisions, utilizing tools, and executing multi-step tasks.

• Execute comprehensive AI/ML and GenAI projects, addressing business requirements through data preparation, model creation, deployment, and ongoing monitoring.

• Innovate LLM-based features such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with citations, text summarization, and embedding pipelines.

• Design and refine prompts utilizing prompt engineering methodologies for LLMs.

• Leverage LLMs like Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Llama through APIs or cloud AI services.

• Assess and validate GenAI features using test datasets, grounding and citation evaluations, LLM-as-judge scoring, and monitoring production quality.

• Design, develop, and enhance machine learning models using Python.

• Deploy and oversee solutions in both distributed and cloud environments.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to influence business strategies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.

• Capability to obtain Public Trust clearance.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or Mathematics.

• Over 2 years of practical experience in AI/ML engineering, including notable work with LLM applications.

• Experience in developing agentic AI systems with tool/function calling, planning or task decomposition, and multi-step execution, or extensive knowledge of LangGraph, CrewAI, Strands, or AutoGen.

• Familiarity with prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, and structured outputs.

• Background in machine learning/artificial intelligence domains such as classification, clustering, anomaly detection, sentiment analysis, NLP, text categorization, topic modeling, entity extraction, or text summarization.

• Ability to assess AI/ML system architecture, model selection, trade-offs, and deployment factors.

• Experience in evaluating AI/ML systems, conducting tests, measuring accuracy, and identifying hallucinations.

• Proficient in Python and iPython notebooks.

• Solid SQL proficiency.

• Strong communication skills with both technical and business audiences.

• Quick to learn new tools and methodologies.

• Capable of handling multiple projects, adhering to deadlines, and managing expectations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusive hiring practices.

• Partnership with the Military Spouse Employment Partnership (MSEP).

• Participation in the Virginia Values Veterans (V3) Program.