Location: Malvern, PA – 100% Onsite
Experience: 15+ Years
Job Type: Contract
Work Authorization: H1B, TN,
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly experienced AI / ML Software Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Machine Learning, Generative AI, LLMs, NLP, MLOps, and production software engineering.
The ideal candidate will bring 15+ years of engineering experience with a proven track record of designing, developing, deploying, and operating production-grade AI/ML and Generative AI solutions. This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring strong experience in architecture, coding, model optimization, cloud platforms, MLOps, and mentoring.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy, and operate production-grade ML, LLM, and Generative AI services.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, design, implementation, and production operations.
- Build and institutionalize MLOps capabilities including automated deployment, monitoring, model lifecycle management, and governance.
- Develop and optimize NLP solutions for summarization and text generation.
- Work hands-on with OpenAI APIs, GPT models, prompt engineering, model evaluation, and GenAI optimization.
- Evaluate generative models and improve quality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Implement production monitoring for AI/ML model performance and reliability.
- Design and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions.
- Work with Product Managers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and business stakeholders to prioritize and deliver AI use cases.
- Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, and mentor engineers.
- Communicate complex AI/ML concepts and technical results to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Stay current with advancements in AI/ML/LLM/GenAI and apply relevant techniques to enterprise solutions.
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of overall software/engineering experience.
- 3–5+ years of hands-on experience building, deploying, and operating production AI/ML systems.
- Strong hands-on Python development experience.
- Strong experience with Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, LLMs, and Generative AI.
- Hands-on experience with OpenAI APIs / GPT models / prompt engineering.
- Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, and/or Scikit-learn.
- Strong MLOps experience including model deployment, monitoring, lifecycle management, and governance.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices.
- Strong understanding of machine learning and statistical fundamentals.
- Experience with model optimization and fine-tuning for NLP/GenAI applications.
- Strong technical leadership, architecture, communication, and mentoring skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Financial Services / Banking / Insurance industry experience.
- Strong experience designing and implementing RAG pipelines.
- Knowledge of Chain-of-Thought, Tree-of-Thought, and Graph-of-Thought prompting strategies.
- Experience delivering successful Generative AI/NLP solutions in production.
- Portfolio demonstrating practical use of OpenAI APIs and prompt engineering.
Education
Bachelor''''s or Master''''s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field preferred.
Important
This is a 100% onsite position in Malvern, PA. Local candidates or candidates within a reasonable commuting distance are strongly preferred.
Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply with an updated resume.