Generative AI Developer

Job#: 3049493

Job Description:
Apex Systems is hiring a Generative AI Developer for a large Healthcare client.

Location: Northern CA (Bay Area/Pleasanton) - partial remote.

This role may need to come into the office a few times a year.

Role Overview

An experienced Generative AI Developer is sought to design, build, and deploy enterprise-grade AI applications leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agentic workflows, and cloud-native architectures. The role combines software engineering expertise with modern AI technologies to deliver scalable, secure, and responsible AI solutions that create measurable business value.

Key Responsibilities

• Design effective system prompts, instructions, structured output templates, and evaluation-driven prompt improvements for accuracy, consistency, and cost efficiency.
• Implement AI guardrails, content safety controls, privacy practices, responsible AI workflows, and human-in-the-loop review patterns.
• Establish evaluation frameworks to measure accuracy, relevance, latency, cost, and user satisfaction.
• Monitor production systems and continuously optimize performance.
• Translate complex AI concepts into business-focused solutions.
• Collaborate effectively with product managers, data scientists, cloud engineers, security teams, and stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python for application development, API integrations, and AI workflow implementation.
• Experience building REST APIs, microservices, and backend services.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, version control with Git, automated testing, and CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience with LLM providers such as Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, and open-source models.
• Experience implementing chat applications, AI copilots, agents, function calling, tool integration, and multi-modal AI capabilities.
• Experience building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions and proficiency with frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, and Semantic Kernel.
• Experience with embeddings, semantic search, and knowledge of vector database platforms such as Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, Azure AI Search, and FAISS.
• Experience deploying AI applications using Microsoft Azure platform services, including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Services, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring frameworks.
• Experience integrating enterprise data sources, APIs, databases, and document repositories.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of experience building Generative AI or Machine Learning solutions.
• Experience developing enterprise AI applications in healthcare, finance, or large-scale business environments.
• Microsoft Azure certifications are preferred.
• Agentic AI development and multi-agent orchestration.
• Fine-tuning, model customization, and evaluation pipelines.
• Experience with AI observability frameworks such as LangSmith or PromptFlow.
• Knowledge of graph-based retrieval patterns.
• Experience in healthcare AI, privacy, safety, and Responsible AI.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

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