RQ11252 - AI Engineer - Senior

Maarut, Inc.

$100K — $130K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience developing AI and ML solutions.
  • Hands-on experience with Generative AI and LLMs in enterprise settings.
  • 5+ years of experience with Amazon Connect-based contact center solutions.
  • Strong experience in designing and integrating Amazon Connect AI services.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience with JavaScript and Node.js.
  • Knowledge of AI best practices including Responsible AI principles.
  • Experience with integrating AI technologies with enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, configure, implement, and support AI solutions based on business needs and best practices.
  • Design and optimize AI-powered conversational systems and processes.
  • Maintain integrations between AI solutions and key business applications.
  • Create prompts and AI guardrails to ensure quality interactions.
  • Collaborate with various teams to ensure scalable AI solutions are implemented.
  • Develop technical documentation and operational support materials.
  • Participate in testing, deployment, and enhancement of contact center AI solutions.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.
  • Work with cutting-edge technologies in AI and cloud solutions.
  • Collaborative environment with multidisciplinary teams.
  • Participation in innovative projects that drive customer experience improvements.
Full Job Description
Job Description
Responsibilities:

  • Undertakes the development, configuration, implementation and support of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI and Conversational AI solutions based on business requirements, architecture standards, security policies, best practices and project deliverables.
  • Designs, develops and supports AI-powered conversational IVR solutions, virtual assistants, voicebots, AI agents and self-service capabilities utilizing Amazon Connect Customer AI Agents, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Lex and related technologies.
  • Develops and maintains integrations between AI solutions, contact centre platforms, enterprise applications, knowledge repositories, APIs, workflow systems and cloud services.
  • Designs, develops and optimizes prompts, prompt templates, orchestration logic, retrieval mechanisms and AI guardrails to ensure secure, accurate and effective AI interactions.
  • Develops and supports AI Agents leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, tool-calling frameworks and enterprise knowledge repositories.
  • Configures and develops Amazon Lex bots including intents, slots, utterances, fulfillment logic, conversational flows and escalation mechanisms.
  • Works closely with architects, business analysts, contact centre teams and stakeholders to implement scalable, secure and reliable AI solutions.
  • Develops technical specifications, implementation documentation, deployment procedures and operational support materials.
  • Participates in testing, troubleshooting, deployment and ongoing optimization of AI-powered contact centre solutions.
  • Ensures solutions comply with organizational standards for security, privacy, accessibility and Responsible AI.


General Skills:

  • Knowledgeof Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI, Machine Learning (ML),Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI and Conversational AItechnologies.
  • Knowledgeof Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering, vectordatabases and semantic search technologies.
  • Knowledgeof Amazon Connect, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Lex and AWS cloud services.
  • Knowledgeof MCP (Model Context Protocol) concepts, tool integration patterns and AIagent orchestration.
  • Knowledgeof cloud computing technologies, APIs, microservices and event-drivenarchitectures.
  • Abilityto gather technical requirements and translate them into scalable AIsolutions.
  • Abilityto develop technical designs, implementation specifications and supportdocumentation.
  • Knowledgeof technology trends, emerging AI capabilities and industry bestpractices.
  • Excellentanalytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
  • Excellentverbal and written communication skills, interpersonal skills and teamworkskills.
  • Ateam player with a track record for meeting deadlines.


Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

  • 5+years of experience developing Artificial Intelligence and MachineLearning solutions.
  • Hands-onexperience implementing Generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM)solutions in enterprise environments.
  • 5+years of experience implementing contact centre solutions utilizing AmazonConnect.
  • Experienceconfiguring and developing Amazon Connect Customer AI Agents.
  • Extensiveexperience designing, developing and implementing Amazon Connectcloud-based contact centre solutions.
  • Experienceintegrating Amazon Bedrock services with Amazon Connect solutions.
  • Experiencedesigning, developing and optimizing prompts for conversational AI,virtual assistants and AI agents.
  • Experiencewith AWS services including Amazon Connect, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Lex,AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, CloudWatch,EventBridge and IAM.
  • Knowledgeof Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Google Vertex AI,Gemini and equivalent AI platforms.
  • Strongexperience with Python development.
  • Experiencewith JavaScript, Node.js and related technologies.
  • 5+years of experience implementing conversational AI, IVR or contact centresolutions.


Nice to have:

  • Prior OPS or Public sector exp.


Skill Set Requirements:

Technical Skills:

AI Engineering & Generative AI:

  • 5+ years of experience developingArtificial Intelligence and Machine Learning solutions.
  • Hands-on experience implementingGenerative AI and Large Language Model (LLM) solutions in enterpriseenvironments.
  • Experience building and supporting AIAgents utilizing foundation models and agent orchestration frameworks.
  • Experience implementing RetrievalAugmented Generation (RAG) architectures utilizing enterprise knowledgerepositories.
  • Experience working with foundationmodels including Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini, Meta Llamaor equivalent technologies.
  • Experience evaluating and selecting AItechnologies, foundation models and AI services based on businessrequirements.
  • Experience designing and implementingAI-powered customer self-service and conversational solutions.
  • Experience with AI model monitoring,evaluation, optimization and performance tuning.
  • Understanding of Responsible AIpractices, AI safety controls and governance principles.

Amazon Connect, Bedrock & Lex Development:

  • 5+ years of experience implementingcontact centre solutions utilizing Amazon Connect.
  • Experience configuring and developingAmazon Connect Customer AI Agents.
  • Extensive experience designing,developing and implementing Amazon Connect cloud-based contact centresolutions.
  • Experience integrating Amazon Bedrockservices with Amazon Connect solutions.
  • Experience developing conversationalIVR, virtual assistants and voice-enabled self-service capabilities.
  • Experience developing and supportingAmazon Lex bots including intents, slots, utterances, fulfillment logicand conversational workflows.
  • Strong knowledge of Contact Lens,Contact Trace Records (CTR), reporting, dashboards, analytics andoperational metrics.
  • Experience developing contact flows,routing logic, customer journeys and escalation mechanisms.
  • Knowledge of intelligent routing,intent recognition and conversational design concepts.

Prompt Engineering, Guardrails & MCP:

  • Experience designing, developing andoptimizing prompts for conversational AI, virtual assistants and AIagents.
  • Experience creating prompt engineeringframeworks, templates and reusable design patterns.
  • Experience implementing AI guardrailsincluding content filtering, safety controls, grounding strategies,response validation and hallucination mitigation.
  • Experience developing and supportingModel Context Protocol (MCP) server integrations.
  • Experience implementing AI agenttool-calling, function-calling and orchestration capabilities.
  • Experience integrating AI agents withenterprise tools, APIs and business applications.
  • Experience evaluating AI responsequality, prompt effectiveness and conversational outcomes.
  • Experience implementing testing andmonitoring frameworks for conversational AI solutions.

AWS, Cloud & Integration Technologies:

  • Experience with AWS services includingAmazon Connect, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Lex, AWS Lambda, API Gateway,Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, CloudWatch, EventBridge and IAM.
  • Experience developing REST APIs, webservices and enterprise integrations.
  • Experience with serverless applicationdevelopment.
  • Experience developing microservices andevent-driven solutions.
  • Experience implementing CI/CD pipelinesand DevOps practices.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Codeand cloud automation tools.
  • Knowledge of AWS SageMaker for machinelearning model development, deployment and monitoring.
  • Knowledge of Azure OpenAI, Azure AIServices, Azure AI Foundry, Google Vertex AI, Gemini and equivalent AIplatforms.

Development Technologies:

  • Strong experience with Pythondevelopment.
  • Experience with JavaScript, Node.js andrelated technologies.
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQLdatabases.
  • Experience utilizing Git, GitLab,Jenkins or similar DevOps tools.
  • Experience troubleshooting andsupporting cloud-native applications.
  • Experience implementing secure softwaredevelopment practices.


Core Skills and Experience:

8+ years of experience with:

  • Software development and applicationintegration.
  • Developing and maintaining technicaldesigns, specifications and documentation.
  • Designing and implementing APIs andenterprise integrations.
  • Agile software delivery methodologies.
  • Troubleshooting and root causeanalysis.
  • Unit testing, integration testing andperformance testing.
  • Cloud-native application development.
  • Supporting production environments andoperational processes.
  • Working closely with businessstakeholders and technical teams.
  • Evaluating new technology alternativesand vendor products.
  • Providing recommendations for technicalimprovements and solution optimization.
  • Designing, maintaining and managingautomation solutions and operational processes.


AI / Contact Centre Domain Experience:

  • 5+ years of experience implementingconversational AI, IVR or contact centre solutions.
  • Experience developing AI-drivencustomer service and citizen-facing solutions.
  • Experience implementing AI Agents,virtual assistants and conversational self-service solutions.
  • Experience utilizing Amazon ConnectCustomer AI Agents in enterprise environments.
  • Experience implementing RetrievalAugmented Generation (RAG) and enterprise knowledge retrievalcapabilities.
  • Experience with speech analytics,sentiment analysis and customer experience optimization technologies.
  • Knowledge of contact centre metrics,reporting and operational analytics.
  • Experience utilizing Contact Lens andCTR reporting to analyze customer interactions and improve outcomes.
  • Experience with large, complex ITprojects.


General Skills:

  • Proven technical leadership skills withability to identify areas for improvement and recommend solutions.
  • Exceptional analytical, problem-solvingand decision-making skills.
  • Demonstrated strong troubleshooting andcritical-thinking experience.
  • Demonstrated strong interpersonal,verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
  • Ability to work independently andcollaboratively within multidisciplinary teams.
  • Strong organizational, planning andtime management skills.
  • Demonstrated commitment to innovation,continuous improvement and quality service delivery.
  • Ability to learn and adapt to emergingAI technologies and industry trends.

Public Sector Experience:

  • Knowledge of Public Sector EnterpriseArchitecture artifacts (or similar), processes and practices.
  • Experience producing technicaldocumentation that complies with industry-standard practices.
  • Knowledge and experience implementingsolutions within government or highly regulated environments.
  • Experience adopting and adhering toPublic Sector Unified I&IT Project Methodology, Public SectorEnterprise Architecture and Public Sector Standard Systems DevelopmentMethodologies.
  • Experience supporting large-scalepublic sector digital transformation initiatives.

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