AI Engineer

Job#: 3040805

Job Description:

AI Engineer

Location: Norfolk, VA

Employment Type: Contract to Hire

Contract Length: 3 month contract (conversion based on performance)

Pay:

Responsabilities:

• Architect and implement scalable multi-agent systems using advanced routing and hierarchical design patterns.
• Build, optimize, and maintain production-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines and semantic search systems.
• Design and manage data preprocessing workflows, chunking strategies, and vector database infrastructure.
• Deploy, secure, and monitor AI applications and microservices within cloud environments.
• Collaborate closely with data scientists, UI/UX designers, and subject matter experts to integrate AI features into user-facing products.
• Establish and enforce security best practices for large language model implementations and data privacy.

Technical Needs:

• Proven experience building multi-agent systems using frameworks like LangGraph, AutoGen, or equivalent tools.
• Deep understanding of RAG architecture, vector databases, embedding techniques, and information retrieval systems.
• Strong programming proficiency in a programing language similar to Python, and experience building robust RESTful APIs.
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing cloud services within AWS or OCI.
• Proficiency working with Linux operating systems and command-line interfaces.
• Expertise in text analytics, prompt engineering, data normalization, and cleaning techniques.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years dedicated to production AI, ML, or NLP development.
• Active Secret or the ability to maintain and hold and active clearance
• IAT II or higher
• Agile environment experience

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

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