Applied AI Engineer

Applied AI Engineer

6 Months contract – later C2H (Contract to Hire)

McLean , VA – On-site M-F

Interview Information:

Rounds: 2 rounds

Duration: 1st round – virtual| 2nd round on-site

Interview Type: MS Teams - Video Mandatory and In Person

Must Have Qualifications:

• Must have proven experience as an Applied AI Engineer with deep expertise in modern AI workflows, GenAI application design, and spec-based development.
• Must demonstrate rigorous software engineering discipline in designing and shipping production AI features by authoring clear functional specifications, orchestrating agentic workflows and maintaining strict evaluation and testing guardrails.

Supplier Vetting Questions: NA

Job Description:

• We are seeking a highly skilled Applied AI Engineer with deep expertise in modern AI frameworks and workflows. You will design, develop, and deploy advanced AI models and intelligent systems, focusing on Trace Evaluation, Spec-Based Development, Language Model Evaluation, Graph DB, and AWS Knowledge Base integration.
• As a hands-on technical leader, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver enterprise grade Gen AI solutions.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Architect and implement scalable AI Agents, Agentic Workflows, and GenAI applications for complex business use cases.
• Develop and evaluate LLMs (e.g., Claude, Azure OpenAI, open-source models).
• Seek candidates with experience fine-tuning open weight models.
• Design and deploy systems using vector databases and knowledge bases.
• Curate enterprise data with connectors integrated into AWS Bedrock Knowledge Base/Elastic.
• Implement Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication.
• Build and maintain Jupyter notebooks on platforms like SageMaker, MLFlow, and Kubeflow (on Kubernetes/EKS).
• Integrate GenAI solutions with enterprise platforms via APIs and standardized GenAI patterns.
• Establish validation procedures using Evaluation Frameworks (DeepEval), bias mitigation, safety protocols, and guardrails.
• Design robust ingestion pipelines for extracting, chunking, enriching, and anonymizing data from various media sources.
• Orchestrate multimodal pipelines with scalable frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, PySpark) for automated ETL/ELT workflows.
• Implement embedding-driven workflows, mapping media content to vector representations and integrating with vector stores (AWS Knowledgebase/Elastic/Mongo Atlas).

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Science, AI/ML, or related technical field (Master’s preferred).
• Advanced proficiency in Python, big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop), and data manipulation libraries (e.g., Pandas, NumPy).
• Solid knowledge of classical ML algorithms, deep learning architectures, LLMs, generative AI, and reinforcement learning.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, Azure OpenAI, and AWS cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding of Spec-Based Development, Git, and CI/CD best practices.
• Expertise in prompt engineering, vector databases (AWS Knowledge Base/Elastic), and multimodal models.
• Proven experience with cloud-native AI development (AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, MLFlow on EKS).
• Strong programming skills in Python and ML libraries (Transformers, LangChain, etc.).
• Deep understanding of GenAI architectural patterns and Evaluation Frameworks (DeepEval).
• Demonstrated ability to work in cross-functional agile teams.
• Github Code Repository Link required for each candidate. Thorough vetting is mandatory.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in financial, regulatory technology, or enterprise automation.
• Familiarity with MLOps tools (MLflow, Kubeflow, Weights & Biases).
• Contributions to open-source AI projects or research publications.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with Spark is optional but preferred.
• Work Conditions:
• Collaborative, cross-functional agile environment; on-site.