Applied AI Engineer - New York. NY (Hybrid)

Job Description

Job Description

Role: Applied AI Engineer
Location: New York, NY (1633 Broadway)
Hybrid: 3x
Duration: 12 Month + Extension/ Contract to Hire

Interview Process: 
1.) Zoom
2.) Onsite Interview (90 Mins)

Years of experience: 5-7 Years Exp (More is Okay)

Must: (5- 7 Years Exp)

• Great hands on experience coding within Python
• Good hands on Core AI experience 
• Good GenAi and Agentic AI exp 
• How it works, how information can be extracted, prompt engineering, etc
• Practical experience building applications using Python, OpenAI or Claude Agent SDK and other agentic frameworks (comparable LLM APIs).
• Strong understanding of prompt engineering, including prompt design, prompt testing, grounding, context management, and output validation.
• Experience building AI or data-driven applications that use APIs, databases, cloud services, and enterprise data sources.
• Good exp in frontier CodingTools: ClaudeCode - Amp - CodeEx, etc
• Strong RAG Experience - What is needed to implement 
• Has working experience working on complex systems and building complex applications 
• PostGres Exp 
• Although different Vector Database will suffice 
• Fantastic Communication skills
• Curious mindset
• Strong Communication (Written and Verbal) 
• Know what they are doing, why they are doing it. 

Plusses:

• Financial Services Experience (Great if they work with Fixed Income - What is a stock, what is a bond, etc)
• Elastic Search Exp 
• Embedding Exp

 
Misc:

• Doc Central - Massive document repository within the firm 
• Becoming the FIRMS main AI solution for document extraction, summarization and search engine for internal documents 
• DocCentral is about 20% of the OpenAI traffic through MS
• Doc Central: RAG Millions of Documents 
• This person will be using RAG, but also helping build out different capabilities as they scale 
• Moved on from Trad RAG, going more Agentic 
• Evaluation is also a big component of what they do
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