Applied GenAI Engineer

Akkodis is seeking an Applied GenAI Engineer for a Contract opportunity in New York, NY. The ideal candidate will translate complex business needs into scalable, secure, and governed GenAI solutions, working across data, engineering, and governance teams.

Rate Range: $45/hour to $60/hour;
The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

• Building and product ionizing LLM applications for summarization, classification, extraction, entity resolution, and recommendations

• Designing agentic workflows including tool‑using agents, multi‑step plans, guardrails, and audit mechanisms

• Developing document and data intelligence pipelines—parsing, chunking, embedding, hybrid retrieval, and re‑ranking

• Creating evaluation frameworks such as golden datasets, regression tests, automated scoring, and human‑review loops

• Implementing reliability patterns including hallucination mitigation, grounding approaches, and prompt‑injection defenses

• Engineering GenAI systems within enterprise constraints (security, governance, access, cost optimization, observability)

• Partnering with platform, governance, and data engineering teams to ensure alignment with entitlements, lineage, and controls

• Supporting data intelligence initiatives across metadata, compliance, workflow optimization, fraud detection, and onboarding

• Strong Python engineering skills with experience shipping production‑grade services and APIs

• Hands‑on experience with LLM application patterns including RAG, tool calling, structured outputs

• Experience building hybrid search and retrieval systems (vector + keyword) and working with large unstructured datasets

• Strong fundamentals across software engineering—including CI/CD, logging, testing, and containerization

• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical designs, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes

• Nice to have: experience with knowledge graphs, semantic search, regulated environments, cybersecurity, Dev Sec Ops , or LLMOps practices

$45.00 to $60.00 per hour

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short‑term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Military connected talent encouraged to apply

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