Senior Generative AI Engineer

Akkodis is seeking a Senior Generative AI Engineer for a Direct Hire position with a client located in Pittsburgh, PA or Lake Mary FL or New York, NY (4-days hybrid) . Ideally looking for applicants with a solid background in the financial services industry.

Pay Range: $135,000 to $150,000k annually. The Salary may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer job responsibilities include:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required; advanced degree is beneficial.
• 10+ years of software development and technical leadership experience, including direct accountability for production systems and cross-functional delivery programs; experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.
• Strong foundational understanding of modern AI and agentic application patterns, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, and agent-based system design.
• Hands-on experience building backend services, APIs, and production systems.
• Experience working across architecture, data, and platform concerns rather than only within a narrow layer.

To fulfill this role the Incident Management Coordinator will be required to:

• Track record of building or scaling a delivery capability (e.g., solutions engineering, forward deployment, platform engineering) within a large enterprise or regulated environment.
• Demonstrated experience delivering AI, data, or workflow-heavy solutions at scale in regulated environments, with accountability for production outcomes.
• Strong systems-thinking and architecture judgment across services, data, and infrastructure; able to evaluate and influence technology choices at a divisional level.
• Experience defining and operating delivery standards, playbooks, or center-of-excellence functions.
• Experience balancing speed with governance, security, and operational rigor across a team or portfolio.
• Deep familiarity with reusable platform patterns, internal developer platforms, and productized infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills in one or more of: Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python.
• Experience with APIs, service integration, and secure-by-default engineering practices.
• Ability to work across data, AI, workflow, and platform layers as needed.
• Comfort using modern AI tooling pragmatically without confusing prototypes for production systems.
• Familiarity with application frameworks and containerization.

If you are interested in this Senior Generative AI Engineer job in Pittsburgh, PA or Lake Mary FL or New York, NY (4-days hybrid) , then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis go to www.akkodis.com.If you have questions about the position, please contact Varun Mahajan at 610-230-7027 or [email protected].

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

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Benefits include but are not limited to:

• 401(k) with match
• Comprehensive medical insurance (PPO, HSA)
• Dental insurance (PPO)
• Vision assistance
• Three weeks of Paid Time Off to Start; Accumulating Structure Afterwards
• Paid Holidays Off

Available paid leave may include Paid Sick Leave, where required by law; any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law; and Holiday pays upon meeting eligibility criteria.

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