AI Engineer

Amivero

$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, or related field; master's preferred.
  • 6+ years of relevant experience in AI/ML development and data science.
  • 3+ years directly in AI/ML development, data science, or applied analytics.
  • Hands-on experience with GenAI and Bedrock services.
  • Proficient in Python, Java, or R; skills in API integration for production systems.
  • Familiar with machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch).
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with excellent communication abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models for predictive analytics and decision support.
  • Integrate AI/ML solutions into operational systems to enhance automation and efficiency.
  • Create and fine-tune algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, and recommendations.
  • Preprocess and transform data to ensure high-quality inputs for model training.
  • Build and maintain scalable data pipelines using Databricks and Hadoop/Cloudera.
  • Evaluate and improve the performance of machine learning models.
  • Mentor junior team members and contribute to knowledge sharing in AI/ML practices.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on advanced AI/ML technologies and frameworks.
  • Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams including data, product, and engineering.
  • Exposure to large-scale applications using vector technology databases.
  • Potential for professional development and mentorship opportunities.
  • Engagement with cutting-edge projects in predictive analytics and anomaly detection.
Full Job Description
Description

Special Requirements
  • US Citizenship Required to obtain Public Trust
  • Active DHS Clearance (preferred)
  • Bachelor's degree + 6 years of experience
  • 3+ years of experience developing and optimizing solutions using Python or similar, with a strong focus on performance, scalability, and efficiency
  • Extensive experience working with vector technology databases, designing and implementing solutions to efficiently store, search, and analyze high-dimensional data for real-time and large-scale applications
  • GenAI and Bedrock experience


The Gist...

We are seeking a highly skilled Generative AI Engineer to design, develop, and deploy advanced AI-powered solutions leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and modern cloud-native architectures. This role will focus on integrating LLMs into enterprise systems, building scalable GenAI applications, optimizing data retrieval pipelines, and developing intelligent solutions using vector databases and AWS-native services such as OpenSearch and Bedrock.

The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on engineering expertise in Python, experience architecting and implementing RAG systems, deep understanding of data chunking and embeddings strategies, and practical knowledge deploying production-grade GenAI solutions.

What Your Day Might Include...

  • Design, build, and deploy LLM-powered applications and intelligent automation solutions for enterprise and mission-focused environments.
  • Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into existing systems, workflows, products, and enterprise platforms using APIs, orchestration frameworks, and custom pipelines.
  • Develop scalable Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures that improve response quality, accuracy, explainability, and contextual relevance.
  • Engineer and optimize prompt orchestration, agentic workflows, and inference pipelines for production use.
  • Develop prototypes and production-grade solutions leveraging open-source and commercial foundation models.
  • Architect and implement robust RAG pipelines, including ingestion, indexing, retrieval, reranking, and response generation.
  • Design and optimize data chunking strategies (semantic, recursive, token-based, metadata-aware chunking) to improve retrieval performance and model grounding.
  • Create and manage embedding pipelines for structured and unstructured data sources.
  • Implement and optimize vector search solutions using vector databases and similarity search technologies.
  • Work with vector databases such as OpenSearch, Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, FAISS, or similar technologies for scalable retrieval systems.
  • Develop data ingestion and knowledge management pipelines to support enterprise search and GenAI applications.
  • Build and deploy GenAI solutions in cloud-native environments, with preference for AWS Bedrock, Amazon OpenSearch, and related AWS AI/ML services.
  • Integrate LLM applications with enterprise APIs, microservices, databases, and existing application ecosystems.
  • Support deployment of scalable and secure AI services using containers, serverless, and modern DevOps/MLOps practices.
  • Optimize performance, latency, scalability, and observability of GenAI systems in production.
  • Evaluate model performance, retrieval quality, hallucination reduction techniques, and system effectiveness.
  • Implement guardrails, grounding strategies, and responsible AI controls for secure and trustworthy solutions.
  • Stay current on emerging GenAI technologies, frameworks, and architectures, recommending innovations and improvements.
  • Contribute to architecture decisions, technical roadmaps, and GenAI best practices across programs and teams.


Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related technical field
  • 5+ years of software engineering or machine learning engineering experience.
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience developing Generative AI / LLM-based solutions.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and experience building production-grade applications.
  • Demonstrated experience integrating LLMs into enterprise systems or applications.
  • Hands-on experience designing and implementing RAG architectures.
  • Strong experience with data chunking strategies, embeddings, and retrieval optimization.
  • Experience with vector databases and semantic search implementations.
  • Experience with GenAI frameworks and tooling such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, or similar.
  • Experience with APIs, microservices, and scalable software architectures.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with AWS Bedrock, Amazon OpenSearch, and broader AWS AI/ML ecosystem.
  • Experience working with foundation models such as Claude, Llama, Mistral, OpenAI, or similar.
  • Familiarity with fine-tuning, model evaluation frameworks, and prompt engineering techniques.
  • Experience with MLOps/LLMOps, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud deployment patterns.
  • Knowledge of security, governance, and responsible AI considerations for enterprise GenAI implementations.
  • Experience supporting federal, regulated, or enterprise-scale environments is a plus.


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