Gen AI Engineer

BeaconFire Inc. is a company based in Central NJ, specializing in Software Development, Web Development, and Business Intelligence. They are seeking a Gen AI Engineer who will be responsible for building and productionizing Vertex AI-based RAG systems, designing reliable tool-using agents, and managing the end-to-end delivery of various AI workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the team to design and develop high quality Web applications using Python, Flask, Django, and related technologies
• Write clean and efficient code, and ensure code maintainability and reusability
• Design and implement RAG pipelines on Google Cloud / Vertex AI (chunking, embeddings, indexing, retrieval, reranking, grounding)
• Build agentic workflows (tool use, planning, reflection/guardrails, structured outputs) using Python-first frameworks
• Perform code reviews to ensure code quality and consistency
• Conduct testing to ensure application quality and reliability
• Create and maintain technical documentation for web applications
• Participate in project planning, estimation, and prioritization
• Stay up to date with the latest technologies for Python development
• Define and run evaluation (retrieval metrics, answer quality, hallucination/grounding checks), and improve system quality iteratively
• Ship to production: APIs, monitoring/observability, cost/performance optimization, CI/CD, and security best practices

Requirements:

• Experience in software development in Python3
• Decent understanding of the software development/testing life cycle
• Knowledge of relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc)
• Experience with version control tools, such as Git
• Experience building RAG solutions (hybrid search, reranking, chunking strategies, embeddings, prompt + schema design)
• Familiar with at least one agentic framework (e.g., LangGraph/LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen) and tool/function calling patterns