AI Engineer

Role: AI Engineer Duration: 6 months Location: Newark, NJ Type : Contract Rate: $60 to $62/hr Job Description: An Azure AI Foundry AI Engineer designs, builds, and deploys intelligent generative AI, agentic workflows, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) applications. This role requires coding with Python, orchestrating AI models, and adhering to responsible AI standards for enterprise scalability. Key Responsibilities AI & Agent Development: Design autonomous or semi-autonomous AI agents and RAG pipelines using Azure AI Foundry (formerly Azure AI Studio). Model Orchestration & Integration: Build and fine-tune large language models (LLMs) and integrate them with business applications, Copilot Studio, and data pipelines. Testing & Evaluation: Implement performance and evaluation tooling (such as RAGAS or TruLens) to assess grounding accuracy, reduce hallucinations, and ensure model explainability. Infrastructure Management: Develop scalable AI infrastructure and maintain reusable AI components in accordance with engineering best practices (version control, observability, CI/CD Core Requirements & Skills Technical Skills: Proficiency in Python, prompt engineering, and utilizing frameworks like LanEligible to workhain, Semantic Kernel, or crewAI. Cloud Experience: Deep understanding of the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, including Azure OpenAI Service, Azure Machine Learning, and Microsoft Fabric. AI Governance: Strong focus on Responsible AI and Model Context Protocol (MCP) to ensure security, privacy, and fairness in model outputs. Experience: Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, alongside 2-5+ years of software or AI/ML engineering experience Disclaimer: Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants and employees are evaluated without discrimination, based solely on their qualifications, ability, competence and performance. #J-18808-Ljbffr Diverse Lynx, LLC