Senior Software Engineer (GenAI)

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (GenAI) Contract Length: 6+ Months Location: Charlotte NC 28202 (On Site Work) Ref# 246440 Key Responsibilities Lead moderately complex initiatives and technical deliverables within engineering environments Contribute to large-scale technology planning and engineering strategy initiatives Design, develop, test, debug, document, and deploy applications and services Review and evaluate technical challenges involving engineering methodologies and technologies Resolve moderately complex technical issues and support evolving business requirements Collaborate with engineering teams, product teams, and technical leadership Lead projects and provide guidance to less experienced engineers Design, develop, and deploy AI applications using: Enterprise APIs Large language models (LLMs) Agent frameworks AI orchestration technologies Implement: Prompt engineering Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) Fine-tuning Agentic AI design patterns Integrate AI models and services into enterprise systems Ensure AI applications meet governance, compliance, and security requirements Troubleshoot application and model-related issues Mentor engineers on software engineering and AI development best practices Stay current with advancements in AI, LLMs, and agentic frameworks Required Qualifications 4+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent combination of education, training, military service, or work experience 2+ years of experience working with: Generative AI Large language models (LLMs) Foundation models 2+ years of experience with at least one of the following: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Microsoft Azure Kubernetes OpenShift 2+ years of Python development experience 2+ years of experience with: REST API development Docker Kubernetes 2+ years of experience using Git for: Branching Pull requests Collaborative development workflows Desired Qualifications Understanding of cloud security principles including: Identity and access management Encryption Network security Experience working within regulated industries such as financial services Experience serving as a technical lead or architect Experience mentoring engineers Experience contributing to or integrating open-source AI/ML projects Experience integrating applications with: Enterprise APIs Data platforms Secure data pipelines Strong communication and technical documentation skills Preferred Skills & Experience Power Platform experience including: Power Apps Dataverse UiPath or enterprise automation tools Experience working with: OpenAI Anthropic Google Gemini Experience with: Agentic frameworks AI workflow orchestration Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) Fine-tuning Structured prompting Experience with vector databases and retrieval systems such as: Elasticsearch OpenSearch Pinecone Weaviate Experience with: LLM evaluation AI observability Monitoring and drift detection AI safety assessments Familiarity with: Feature stores Model registries CI/CD pipelines for AI services Responsible AI and governance processes Experience optimizing AI application performance including: Prompt efficiency Model selection Caching Batching Cost management #J-18808-Ljbffr Strategic Staffing Solutions