Technology Specialist

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Job Title:

Technology Specialist - IT Service, Support and Operations | Artificial Intelligence | Artificial Intelligence - ALL

Work Location:

Bellevue, WA 98007
Contract duration: 12

Job Details:

Overall 8+ years experience with 5+ years in AI development. PFB the technology skills required.

Core Language & Architecture
" Python 3.11+
" Advanced type hints (PEP 484), static typing discipline
" Async programming (asyncio, async/await, async generators)
" aiohttp / httpx (async HTTP clients)
" Pydantic v2 (Base Model, validation, settings management)
" Structured logging & tracing patterns
" Redis (pub/sub, TTL, async clients)
" REST API design & integration patterns
" Retry/backoff strategies (Tenacity)
" Concurrency patterns (parallel tool calls, task orchestration)

AI / LLM / Agent Systems
" Lang Graph (state machines, conditional edges, checkpointing)
" Lang Chain 0.3.x (LLMChain, Structured Tool, retrievers, prompt templates)
" ReAct-style agent architectures
" Tool-based agent design (40+ tool environments)
" Azure OpenAI / OpenAI APIs (GPT-4o, deployment mgmt, rate limits, token budgeting)
" Prompt engineering (few-shot, structured output, JSON mode)
" Pydantic Output Parser  / structured LLM responses
" Guardrails / PII redaction patterns
" Memory abstractions for agents
" Langfuse (trace instrumentation, evaluation, prompt management)
" LLM fallback chains & error recovery
" RAG prompt grounding strategies
" LLM fine-tuning
" Neural Network training & tuning
" Traditional ML models (random forest, k-means clustering, linear regression, etc.)
" MCP development and consumption

Retrieval, Search & RAG Engineering
" Vector databases (Qdrant and/or Milvus)
" HNSW indexing parameters
" Filtering strategies
" Embedding pipelines (OpenAI ada-002 or equivalent)
" Batch embedding & re-indexing workflows
" Hybrid retrieval (BM25 + semantic)
" Score fusion strategies
" Cross-encoder reranking (BAAI/bge models)
" FastAPI-based inference services
" Lang Chain retriever abstractions
" RAG evaluation metrics:
o Faithfulness
o Relevance
o NDCG
o MRR
" Trace-level RAG evaluation (Langfuse)

Data Engineering & ETL
" Prefect 2.x / 3.x
o Flows, tasks, futures
o Deployments (YAML)
o Scheduling
" ETL/ELT design
o Schema evolution
o Query optimization
" OAuth authentication
" Warehouse/schema management
" Postgre

SQL 16/17
o psycopg 3.x
o Connection pooling
o SQL Alchemy 2.x (ORM + asyncio)
o Alembic migrations
o Advanced SQL
o Multi-table JOINs
o CTEs
o Window functions
" Timezone conversion
" Pandas 2.x (complex multi-stage transformations)
" PyArrow / columnar formats
" Azure Blob Storage (azure-storage-blob)
" Document ingestion/parsing:
o Docling
o Unstructured
o python-docx
o python-pptx

Dev Ops & Platform
" Docker
" Linux fundamentals

Nice-to-Haves
" Ray (distributed execution)
" Columnar performance tuning
" Network operations domain knowledge
" NOC / alarm correlation familiarity

API & Enterprise Integrations
" OAuth 2.0 (client credentials flow, token lifecycle)
" MSAL (browser + service principal flows)
" Microsoft Graph API
" Share Point
" Outlook
" Planner
" One Drive
" Pagination
" App permissions
" Service Now REST API
" Table API
" Incident/change mgmt
" Bulk operations
" Splunk SDK
" Saved searches
" Async queries
" Log analysis
" Azure AD app registrations
" IPAM / OTNA integrations (nice-to-have domain exposure)

Minimum years of experience

8-10 years

Top 3 responsibilities you would expect the Subcon to shoulder and execute

Langfuse trace instrumentation, evaluation, prompt management LLM fallback chains error recovery
LLM fine tuning
Traditional ML models random forest, kmeans clustering, linear regression, etc.

Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.