AI Engineer (Chatbot/.NET)

Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers, and they are seeking an AI Engineer Consultant to enhance their innovative AI solutions. The role involves developing AI-related features, leading design discussions, and ensuring best practices in software engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain our goal: Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software
• Use Agile methodologies to deliver solutions that will support our customers, mainly using the Scrum framework to support solution development, implementation, and support
• Work in a team environment to build our solutions, and with regular retrospection, improve our team culture and processes through continuous inspection
• Lead in team AI related technical discussions where design ideas are presented and reviewed resulting in a team decision on the best approach
• Lead in AI systems design, design reviews, software development, code reviews, quality engineering, and continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Assist with the creation of necessary technical documentation in support of programming and design activities such as design diagrams, release notes, code comments, use cases, and training materials
• Provide support to internal and external clients currently utilizing software applications, including assisting with the delivery of solutions
• Assist with training, including developing training materials and delivering training to staff
• Perform knowledge transference of best AI engineering practices within the client's software engineering discipline
• Ability to research, prototype, and promote new technical approaches, designs, and tools among other new innovative concepts
• Collaborate with Architecture discipline to ensure compliance with corporate Architecture standards and to assist in extending the standards for AI enabled applications

Requirements:

• Baccalaureate degree in an appropriate IT field such as Computer Science or Computer Engineering from an accredited U.S. college or university, equivalent foreign institution, or equivalent experience
• Minimum of five years relevant work experience
• Substantial knowledge of Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services and Agent frameworks/tools such as Semantic Kernel or LangChain
• Substantial knowledge of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with embedding models and vector databases
• Substantial knowledge of Prompt Engineering techniques for response output customization
• Substantial knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Substantial knowledge of .Net Framework & .NET Core
• Substantial knowledge of Web API design and implementation
• Substantial knowledge of Software patterns (Dependency injection, MVC, etc.)
• Substantial knowledge of code management best practices and one or more tools (TFS, Git, etc.)
• Ability to function on an Agile (Scrum) team utilizing ADO for task management and source control
• Ability to independently analyze requirements to determine how applications function to build effective designs and tests
• Ability to use industry standard design patterns
• Ability to lead implementation of testing methodologies geared towards AI applications
• Ability to learn and follow client s Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Ability to grow as a subject matter expert within the solution as it relates to the business requirements, implementation and delivery of software, data within platform, and the software artifacts themselves
• Ability to monitor and check work deliverables ensuring high quality, accuracy and having a strong attention to detail
• Ability to prioritize competing demands, manage multiple concurrent tasks and adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to independently engineer a feature or epic from ideation with product owner to delivery of those specified items, while understanding the impact in relation to the rest of the software platform and associated business
• Oral Communication: Requires the ability to compose and verbally deliver information of varying levels, using appropriate grammar, tone, inflection and non-verbal cues, while also listening to and correctly deciphering verbal communication delivered by others
• Written Communication: Requires the ability and capacity to communicate ideas, facts and data in writing using appropriate grammar, syntax and sentence structure including the ability to create technical documents
• Analytical Thinking/Reasoning: Requires the ability to understand a situation by breaking it apart into smaller pieces, and/or tracing the implications of a situation in a step-by-step causal way
• Results Orientation: Requires the ability to strive for optimal results by taking responsibility for timeliness, commitment to task and adherence to performance standards
• Ethics/Integrity: Requires the ability to behave in a trustworthy & transparent manner
• Teamwork & Cooperation: Requires the ability to work cooperatively with others and be part of a team
• Self-Control: Requires the ability to keep emotions under control and to restrain from negative actions or behaviors
• Information Seeking: Requires the drive to gain a deeper understanding of work-related issues or events by making a concerted effort to gather information and seek out development opportunities
• Initiative: Requires the drive to go above and beyond to improve or enhance job results
• Concern for Order, Quality & Accuracy: Requires the ability to monitor and check work related information and deliverables ensuring high quality and accuracy
• Customer Service Orientation: Requires the ability to understand and help/assist both internal and external customers and meet their needs
• Flexibility/Adaptability: Requires the ability to adapt to and work effectively within a variety of situations, individuals or groups, as well as understand and appreciate different and opposing perspectives
• Conceptual Thinking/Critical Thinking: Requires the ability to understand a situation or problem by putting the different pieces together to see the bigger picture
• Interpersonal Understanding: Requires the ability to understand other s feelings and concerns, and to value individual differences in people
• Self-Confidence: Requires the ability to express confidence in dealing with challenging circumstances, in reaching decisions or forming opinions and in handling failures or setbacks constructively
• Organizational Commitment: Requires the ability and willingness to align his/her own behavior with the needs, priorities and goals of the organization
• Relationship Building: Requires the ability to effectively build and maintain friendly, warm relationships or networks of contacts with clients/customers
• Assertiveness: Requires the ability and intent to appropriately display assertive behaviors to ensure others follow and comply with given directions
• Preferred familiarity with, or desire and ability to learn web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Preferred familiarity with, or desire and ability to learn utilization of technologies such as C#, .Net, and MS SQL Server
• Preferred familiarity with, or desire and ability to learn Model Context Protocol implementation and usage
• Preferred familiarity with, or desire and ability to learn fine tuning using model distillation for domain specific model adaptation
• Preferred familiarity with, or desire and ability to learn tools such as Visual Studio (VS), Team Foundation Server (TFS), GIT, etc
• Preferred familiarity with, or desire and ability to learn automation testing for quality engineering disciplines such as unit testing, smoke testing, and integration tests
• Preferred familiarity with, or desire and ability to learn continuous integration and continuous delivery tools (Azure DevOps)
• Preferred familiarity with, or desire and ability to learn understanding of potential performance, security, scalability and maintainability issues