AI/ML Engineer

Job#: 3040857 Job Description: AI/ML Engineer

Location: Jersey City, New Jersey (Onsite) Duration: 12 months Role Overview

This is an opportunity for a hands-on AI Engineer to contribute to a high-visibility Gen AI project. The project involves summarization and chatbot functionalities supporting a large volume of documents across various business lines. This position is for a self-starter with strong technical skills and leadership qualities, who can effectively communicate complex technical concepts.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of complex data management and storage applications using new technologies.
• Exercise judgment within broadly defined practices and policies to select methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Execute end-to-end Gen AI projects, including delivering on model governance guidelines and building model monitoring capabilities.
• Provide work leadership by assigning tasks and resolving problems.
• Translate business strategy into achievable technical tactics.

Required Qualifications Education: A Bachelor’s degree, advanced degree, or equivalent experience in a related IS/IT, mathematics, data science, or other quantitative discipline is required.

Experience:

• Typically over 10 years of related IT experience.
• 2+ years of professional experience as a data scientist executing end-to-end Gen AI projects.
• Experience with Model Risk Management/Model Governance, including writing a model document and building model monitoring capabilities.
• Demonstrated success in executing high-value, enterprise projects with clear articulation of benefits, costs, and risk.

Technical Skills:

• Strong programming experience with Python.
• LLM Models (Llama, Mixtral, Mistral) and various inferencing mechanisms (transformer/pipeline, vllm).
• Agentic frameworks such as langgraph and LLM development frameworks like Langchain or LlamaIndex.
• Evaluation frameworks including RAGAS, langsmith, or phoenix-arize.
• Embedding technologies (e.g., all-MiniLM-L6-v2, all-mpnet-base-v2).
• Experience with Rest API, FastAPI, and Websockets.
• Familiarity with enterprise databases such as Redis, Qdrant, or Cockroach.

Preferred Qualifications

• Angular experience is a plus.
• Experience with Slurm, Hadoop/Hive, Neo4J, Apache Spark, Kafka, and MongoDB is a plus.
• Knowledge of machine-learning techniques, classifiers, and statistical methods.

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