Senior AI Engineer - Virtual

Our Story At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. Alight embraces values that come directly from our people – purposeful, human, united and growth-minded – reflecting our inclusive culture and promise that our clients expect. We are passionate about connecting purpose with impact. Alight empowers clients to build a healthier and more financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, navigation, and absence management.

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We are currently seeking an experienced AI engineer who will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop and deploy AI-powered features and tools that optimize employee experiences and drive business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• As a senior AI/ML engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying machine learning models and AI applications that solve complex business problems.
• Design and develop search and chat applications that utilize agentic AI.
• Design and develop AI pathed paths for the Alight engineering organization.
• Experiment to evaluate application performance, including designing experiments to evaluate the performance of machine learning models, and then analyze and interpret the results to improve model performance.
• Stay up to date with new tools and technologies and evaluating their potential impact on the business.
• Work with stakeholders to develop and tune algorithms to address business needs. You should be able to effectively communicate your ideas in non-technical terms to help educate business partners
• Collaborate on a high-performing, agile team with a global presence

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with preferred concentrations in Computer Science, Data Science, Math, Actuarial Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience writing and working in Python or Spark (ScalaSpark or PySpark) and with popular machine learning libraries such as TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch
• AI/ML engineers should have experience with data preparation and data engineering tasks such as data cleaning, feature engineering, and data transformation
• Knowledge of deep learning architectures and techniques, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and reinforcement learning.
• Familiarity with AWS data and data science tools including SageMaker, Glue, Lambdas, etc.
• Experience in Agile and DevOps development process
• Must be able to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Manage services provided to the federal government or federal government contractor and therefore requires US Citizenship. Proof of citizenship status will be required at time of hire.
• Familiarity with Git, JIRA, Artifactory, CI/CD tools like Jenkins

Application and Interview By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight’s employment policies. Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.

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