Lead AI / GenAI Engineer Nearest Client Office USA_hybrid

Lead AI / GenAI Engineer

Location: Nearest Client Office USA_hybrid

Duration: 12 Months plus Contract

Experience: 8 12+ Years

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Role Overview

We are looking for a Lead AI / GenAI Engineer to lead the technical strategy and development of production-grade AI/LLM systems. The ideal candidate will be hands-on with Python, RAG, agentic AI, ML frameworks, data engineering, and cloud technologies.

Mandatory Skills8+ years of software engineering experience with strong recent hands-on development.

3+ years hands-on experience in Machine Learning, Data Science, Search/Relevance, or Ranking systems.

Strong Python development experience.

Production experience with AI/LLM/GenAI systems.

Strong experience with RAG, retrieval, orchestration, AI agents, and evaluation systems.

Experience with LangChain and/or LangGraph.

Strong knowledge of ML frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, and/or MLflow.

Strong Pandas and NumPy skills.

Experience building REST APIs and scalable backend services.

Strong SQL and experience working with large-scale structured/unstructured data.

Experience with AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform, preferably AWS Bedrock.

Experience with Vector Databases such as Qdrant.

Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.

Experience with Kafka / event-driven architectures.

Experience with CI/CD, Git, automated testing, and production deployment.

Strong understanding of data preprocessing, feature engineering, data validation, transformation, modeling, and storage.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related quantitative field.

PreferredExperience designing AI systems at scale, including latency, cost, observability, safety, and responsible AI.

Experience with ML model deployment and inference pipelines.

Experience mentoring junior AI/ML engineers.

Experience leading AI technical strategy across multiple products.