Lead AI Engineer

Immediate need for a talented Lead AI Engineer .This is a 12+ months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Atlanta, GA OR Chicago, IL OR Minneapolis, MN(Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job Diva ID: 26-11355
Pay Range: $80 - $85 /hr. (Depending upon experience). Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• AI Agent Engineering
• Design and implement AI agents, including:
• Retrieval (RAG)
• Orchestration workflows
• Tool/function invocation
• Policy-based routing
• Build evaluation frameworks for accuracy, latency, and reliability
• Implement observability and monitoring for agent lifecycle
• AI Platform Integration
• Integrate with AI providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex, open-source models)
• Build abstraction layers to support multi-model and multi-provider architectures
• Optimize model usage for performance, cost, and latency
• Cloud-Native Development
• Develop scalable services using:
• Microservices architecture
• Containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Serverless and event-driven patterns
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Helm)
• Ensure production readiness, logging, monitoring, and fault tolerance
• Application Development
• Build and deploy AI-powered applications aligned to business workflows
• Integrate AI systems into existing enterprise platforms and APIs
• Develop backend services and APIs supporting agent workflows
• Testing & Performance
• Define and execute test strategies for AI systems
• Measure system performance (latency, throughput, accuracy, cost)
• Debug and optimize production systems

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• 10 -12+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containers, serverless)
• Experience building and deploying AI/LLM-based systems in production (agents, RAG, orchestration)
• Proficiency in Python, Java, or similar backend languages
• CI/CD pipelines
• Infrastructure as code
• Monitoring and observability tools
• Hands-on experience with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, or similar)
• Experience with agent frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI)
• Experience designing multi-agent or distributed AI systems
• Familiarity with enterprise-scale system integration
• Experience optimizing AI workloads for cost and performance
• Scope & Expectations (Contractor-Specific)
• 100% hands-on engineering role (no people management)
• Deliver production-quality code and deployments
• Work within existing architecture and engineering standards
• Collaborate with client and internal engineering teams as needed
• Participate in technical design discussions (implementation-focused)

Our client is a leading IT Industry , and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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