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AI Developer / LLM Engineering Specialist
Role Overview
Seeking a highly skilled AI/LLM Developer with strong enterprise-level software engineering experience and hands-on expertise delivering production-grade AI solutions post-2022. This role supports ongoing AI development requests, owning end-to-end delivery of features, fixes, and enhancements using LLMs, agentic workflows, and modern ML tooling.
Ideal for someone who has transitioned from traditional software/ML engineering into building enterprise AI solutions using tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Llama, etc.
This is a contract-to-hire role operating at a senior associate / junior VP technical level.
MUST-HAVE SKILLS
Core Engineering
- 5+ years software development in Python, C/C++, Go, or Java (enterprise scale).
- Strong experience building and maintaining large-scale Python applications.
AI / LLM Engineering
- 3+ years launching production ML systems, including model deployment, monitoring, data pipelines, and fine-tuning workflows.
- Hands-on enterprise experience with LLMs, including:
- API integration
- Prompt engineering
- Fine-tuning / adaptation
- Building applications with RAG, vector retrieval, tool-using agents, and function calling
- Demonstrated use of GenAI tools post-2022 to build enterprise-grade engineering solutions.
Enterprise-Level Capability
- Experience developing AI/ML solutions within large, complex environments.
- Ability to own full lifecycle delivery: requirements discussions, solution design, coding, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Strong problem-solving skills, structured communication, and the ability to translate user needs into reliable engineering outcomes.
HIGHLY PREFERRED
- AI development experience at organizations with mature AI engineering practices.
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS preferred): Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, DynamoDB, Redshift, Step Functions, SageMaker, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation).
- Strong understanding of applied statistics, ML fundamentals, and model evaluation frameworks.
WHAT YOU WILL DO (DAY-TO-DAY)
- Handle ongoing AI development requests and deliver end-to-end fixes, enhancements, and new features.
- Build and deploy agentic AI systems, including retrieval workflows, reasoning agents, and secure tool-calling capabilities.
- Productionize LLM solutions: evaluation frameworks, prompt synthesis, response validation, self-correction loops, and pipelines.
- Integrate AI solutions with production ecosystems such as observability tools, incident response systems, deployment platforms, and automation frameworks.
- Work directly with end users to define problems, validate requirements, and deliver complete engineering solutions.
- Ensure safety, governance, and reliability standards through guardrails, policy checks, fallback strategies, and continuous evaluation.
- Optimize cost, latency, and performance through prompt engineering, context management, caching, and model routing.
- Build and maintain RAG pipelines, domain knowledge bases, and feedback loops.
Interested candidates may submit their resumes online or call at for further information regarding the position.
Beacon Hill is an equal opportunity employer and individuals with disabilities and/or protected veterans are encouraged to apply.
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Company Profile:
Beacon Hill Technologies, a premier National Information Technology Staffing Group, provides world class technology talent across all industries utilizing a complete suite of staffing services. Beacon Hill Technologies' dedicated team of recruiting and staffing experts consistently delivers quality IT professionals to solve our customers' technical and business needs.
Beacon Hill Technologies covers a broad spectrum of IT positions, including Project Management and Business Analysis, Programming/Development, Database, Infrastructure, Quality Assurance, Production/Support and ERP roles.
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Benefits Information:
Beacon Hill offers a robust benefit package including, but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, and federal and state leave programs as required by applicable agency regulations to those that meet eligibility. Upon successfully being hired, details will be provided related to our benefit offerings.
We look forward to working with you.
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