GenAI Programmer / AI Engineer

GenAI Programmer / AI EngineerJersey City, NJEmployment Type: Contract (12 months, likely extension) | Hybrid (3 days onsite)Pay Range: $47.49 - $67.85 HRJob SummaryA top financial services firm is seeking a hands-on GenAI Engineer for a high-visibility Generative AI initiative focused on enterprise-scale document summarization and conversational AI. The platform will support large volumes of heterogeneous documents across multiple lines of business.Required2+ years delivering end-to-end GenAI/LLM-based solutions in enterprise production environmentsStrong Python expertise: REST APIs, FastAPI, WebSocket-based applicationsLLMs (GPT, LLaMA), Agentic frameworks (LangGraph), orchestration frameworks (MCP, LangChain, LlamaIndex)Embedding models and RAG evaluation frameworks (RAGAS, LangSmith, Phoenix/Arize)Model Governance and Model Risk Management: model documentation, governance compliance, monitoring, performance controlsExcellent communication skills; ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders10+ years overall IT experience with leadership on complex enterprise initiativesPreferredJava development experienceEnterprise data stores: Redis, MongoDBDistributed/big data: Spark, Kafka, Hadoop/Hive, Neo4jML techniques, classifiers, and statistical modelingAdvanced degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or quantitative field Mitchell Martin