Senior AI Developer​/Engineer - Information Technology - Analysts

Job  Jersey City , New Jersey Job Type: Contract Added - a day ago

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 Sage Maker.
• 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 No
  
  SQL stores (e.g., Open Search, 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/Type Script frameworks (e.g., Next.js, Svelte) for agent UIs (AG-UI / NEO UI SDK).
• Knowledge of high-performance languages such as Go or Rust.

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.

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.

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),…