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Senior AI Developer / Engineer

Innova Solutions, IncJersey City, NJ🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 15, 2026

Quick Overview

Salary
$60 - $65/hr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
On Site
Location
Jersey City, NJ, United States
Posted
Yesterday
Next.jsRustSQLSvelteAWSMLflowMachine LearningNLPAzureDatabricksJavaScriptKubernetesLLMPythonRedisTypeScript

Job Description

A client of Innova Solutions is immediately hiring for a Senior AI Developer / Engineer
 
Position type: Full-Time Contract (W2)
Role: Senior AI Developer / Engineer
Duration: 6+ Months Contract
Location : Jersey City, NJ (Onsite role)
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
• MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Machine Learning, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum 7 years of development experience, with at least 4 years working on AI/ML solutions.
• Hands-on experience building LLM-powered or agentic applications in production, including tracing, evaluations, and guardrails.
• Hands-on experience owning retrieval or recommendation quality in a production system, with the metrics and evaluation discipline to prove improvement.
• Practical RAG experience — retrieval quality, embeddings, and vector stores; Graph RAG a strong plus.
• Strong programming skills in Python, with deep knowledge of data structures, algorithms, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and statistics.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes (AWS EKS).
• Experience with training models in Databricks and SageMaker.
• Experience working with MLflow.
• Expert knowledge of at least one of: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of data management and data model design; real-time processing using both SQL (e.g., Postgres) and NoSQL stores (e.g., OpenSearch, Redis).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to partner effectively with senior technical and business stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with recommendation, propensity, ranking, or learning-to-rank models in a production setting.
• Experience with NLP and information retrieval at scale: document understanding and extraction, summarization evaluation, reranking, or speech-to-text and call intelligence.
• Experience with online experimentation and interleaving for retrieval or recommendation quality.
• Experience with CRM data (Salesforce objects, Data Cloud) and with modelling over sales pipeline and engagement data.
• Experience delivering models through model risk management or equivalent regulatory review, including supervision of client-facing generated content.
• Experience working in the financial or payments domain at a large institution (Investment Banking, Markets, Securities Services, or adjacent), or with sales enablement and client service platforms.
• Experience with agent frameworks or runtimes, A2A, or MCP.
• Agent memory design (memory nodes, episodic/semantic memory) and organizational context management.
• Knowledge graphs and graph databases used for retrieval.
• Understanding of LLM fine-tuning and small language model inference.
• Ability to develop full-stack products using modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (e.g., Next.js, Svelte) for agent UIs (AG-UI / NEO UI SDK).
• Knowledge of high-performance languages such as Go or Rust.
Qualified candidates should APPLY NOW for immediate consideration!
This position is only open to applicants who can be engaged on a W-2 basis. 1099 contractors and Corp-to-Corp arrangements will not be considered for this position.
Please hit APPLY to provide the required information, and we will be back in touch as soon as possible.
We are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar positions. If this role is not a fit for you, we do offer a referral bonus program for referrals that we successfully place with our clients, subject to program guidelines.
REFERRAL PROGRAM:
This position qualifies for a Referral Bonus amount of $250-$1000 dollars. Click here to learn more – . Please email your referral details along with their resume to
Samarth Mishra


PAY RANGE AND BENEFITS:
Pay Range*: Between $60 - $65/- per hour
*Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.
Benefits: Innova Solutions offers benefits( based on eligibility) that include the following: Medical & pharmacy coverage, Dental/vision insurance, 401(k), Health saving account (HSA) and Flexible spending account (FSA), Life Insurance, Pet Insurance, Short term and Long term Disability, Accident & Critical illness coverage, Pre-paid legal & ID theft protection, Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
ABOUT INNOVA SOLUTIONS: Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Innova Solutions employs approximately 50,000 professionals worldwide and reports an annual revenue approaching $3 Billion. Through our global delivery centers across North America, Asia, and Europe, we deliver strategic technology and business transformation solutions to our clients, enabling them to operate as leaders within their fields.
Recent Recognitions:
  • Named One of America’s Best Employers for New Grads by Forbes (2024)
  • Named One of the Best Companies to Work for by U.S. News & World Report (Private Companies List, 2024-2025)
  • One of the Largest IT Staffing Firms in the US – Ranked #3 by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA, 2024)
  • One of the Largest Staffing Firms in the US – Ranked #13 by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA, 2024; includes Innova Solutions, Volt, & HireGenics)
  • Named One of the Top Ten Private Companies in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle (2023)
  • One of the Largest Certified Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) in the United States (NMSDC, 2024)
  • AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with 100+ certifications

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Innova Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits any kind of unlawful discrimination and harassment. Innova Solutions is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, national origin, citizenship, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by the statutes, rules, and regulations in the locations where it operates.  If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us at or . Please indicate the specifics of the assistance needed.  Innova Solutions encourages all interested and qualified candidates to apply for employment opportunities.   Innova Solutions (HireGenics/Volt) does not discriminate against applicants based on citizenship status, immigration status, or national origin, in accordance with 8 U.S.C. § 1324b.
The company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner that complies with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.
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