AI Engineer – Level II

Overview

AI Engineer – Level II in Washington, DC. Contract position, pay $85.00 - $90.00 per hour. Requires 5+ years software engineering and 2+ years GenAI/LLM, expertise in Azure and AWS tools, relevant certifications.

Location:

Washington, DC (Onsite)

Experience:

5+ years in software engineering; 2+ years GenAI/LLM

Pay: $85-90/hour

Type:
Contract

As an AI Engineer (Level II), you’ll design, implement, and optimize enterprise-scale AI systems. You’ll lead architecture, agent orchestration, and model integration while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver production-ready solutions.

• AI Architecture & Delivery:
  Design RAG pipelines using Azure AI/Search, Redis, FAISS, HNSW;
  Build conversational systems with prompt lifecycle management and telemetry;
  Integrate LLMs like Azure OpenAI, Claude, Llama, and open-source models.
• Infrastructure & Orchestration:
  Deploy MCP servers with RBAC and audit trails;
  Implement Azure AI Agent Service patterns for agent registry and policy enforcement;
  Use Azure Batch and AWS EMR for scalable inferencing and processing.
• Data Pipeline Engineering:
  Build ingestion pipelines with PII redaction, metadata enrichment, SLA tracking;
  Operate vectorization pipelines with quality gates and drift detection;
  Leverage ADF, Databricks, and EMR for scalable workflows.
• Agentic AI & Model Ops:
  Orchestrate multi-agent workflows using Semantic Kernel, Auto Gen, CrewAI, Lang Chain;
  Apply governance and lifecycle management for agent runtimes;
  Fine-tune models, conduct A/B testing, and implement CI/CD pipelines with validation.

• Strong CS fundamentals: distributed systems, algorithms, concurrency, networking
• SDLC excellence: clean architecture, SOLID, testing frameworks
• Secure development: input validation, secret hygiene, sandboxing
• Performance tuning: latency optimization, vector index profiling
• Expertise in RAG, embeddings, transformer models, and multi-modal pipelines
• Production-level C#, Python, .NET;
  Type Script for service/UI (as needed)
• Experience with Azure and AWS AI tools and operations
• Familiarity with fine-tuning, safety tooling, model traceability
• Strong delivery skills: architecture, stakeholder alignment, roadmap execution

• Azure:
  OpenAI, AI Search, AML, AKS, ADF, Azure Batch, Databricks, Key Vault
• AWS:
  Sage Maker, Bedrock, EMR, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, EKS, Comprehend
• Vector DBs:
  Redis, FAISS, HNSW;
  Azure AI Search
• Frameworks:
  Lang Chain, Semantic Kernel, Auto Gen, Microsoft Agent Framework, CrewAI
• Inference:
  Docker/Ollama, vLLM, GGUF quantization, GPU provisioning

• Microsoft Certified:
  Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
• Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)
• AWS Machine Learning Specialty
• Tensor Flow Developer
• Kubernetes CKA/CKAD
• SAFe Agile Software Engineering

• Azure AI Engineer (AI-102), Data Scientist (DP-100), Architect (AZ-305), or Developer (AZ-204) certifications
• Experience with MLflow, Hugging Face, vector tuning (HNSW/IVF)
• Responsible AI playbooks, incident response frameworks
• CI/CD for AI (Azure Dev Ops, AWS Code Pipeline), hybrid deployments (Azure Arc, AWS Outposts)

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