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Applied AI Engineer

Job in Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, 27703, USA
Listing for: Harnham
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-06-14
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    AI Engineer (Applied/Software)
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 80000 - 100000 USD Yearly USD 80000.00 100000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

This role will play a critical part in designing, building, and deploying enterprise-scale Generative AI solutions that enhance customer experiences, improve operational efficiency, and enable intelligent automation across the business. This is an opportunity to work on real-world AI applications from concept through production, leveraging the latest advancements in large language models, conversational AI, retrieval systems, and intelligent automation. The ideal candidate is a hands‑on builder with recent experience deploying production‑grade GenAI solutions and thrives in a fast‑paced, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities
  • Design, prototype, and deploy Generative AI solutions across customer‑facing and internal business applications.
  • Develop and optimize applications powered by large language models (LLMs), vector databases, prompt engineering techniques, and Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
  • Build, deploy, and maintain AI‑powered chatbots and virtual assistants, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and compliance.
  • Lead the development of AI agents for both digital and voice‑based experiences, supporting real‑time interactions for customers and employees.
  • Evaluate, integrate, and implement third‑party AI platforms, APIs, and emerging technologies to accelerate innovation and business value.
  • Create proof‑of‑concept applications to assess new use cases such as document processing, classification, summarization, knowledge management, and workflow automation.
  • Optimize prompts, model configurations, and orchestration frameworks to improve performance, accuracy, and cost efficiency.
  • Partner closely with data, platform, and MLOps teams to ensure robust deployment processes, monitoring, observability, and governance practices.
  • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to translate user needs into scalable AI solutions.
  • Contribute to architectural discussions and establish best practices for enterprise AI adoption and integration.
Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 4+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering, software engineering, data engineering, or natural language processing, including recent hands‑on work with Generative AI and LLM‑based applications.
  • Demonstrated success building and deploying production‑grade AI chatbots, assistants, or conversational AI solutions within the last two years.
Required Skills
  • Strong Python programming skills and experience with modern AI frameworks and libraries such as Lang Chain, Hugging Face, OpenAI, Transformers, or similar technologies.
  • Experience working with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, FAISS, or equivalent platforms.
  • Strong understanding of RAG architectures, prompt engineering, model evaluation, API orchestration, and LLM optimization techniques.
  • Solid SQL skills and experience working with cloud‑based data platforms and large‑scale datasets.
  • Ability to operate effectively in cross‑functional teams and collaborate with product, engineering, analytics, and external partners.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex AI concepts and outcomes to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience working in highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, insurance, or telecommunications.
  • Hands‑on experience developing voice AI, speech‑enabled assistants, or conversational systems integrated with telephony platforms.
  • Familiarity with modern data stack technologies, including cloud data warehouses, transformation tools, and data orchestration frameworks.
  • Experience integrating AI solutions with CRM, customer service, or workflow management platforms.
  • Exposure to document intelligence use cases including OCR, information extraction, summarization, semantic search, and personalized recommendations.
  • Experience supporting customer‑facing applications, contact center technologies, or enterprise‑scale service operations.
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