AI Engineer || United States citizenship is required

Remote • Posted 2 hours ago • Updated 2 hours ago
Contract W2
Contract Independent
Remote
$60 - $60/hr
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Skills

  • OpenAI
  • Azure
  • BM25

Summary

Engineer / Search Engineer
Required qualifications
  • Four or more years in search, information retrieval, or applied machine learning, including at least one retrieval-augmented generation system that reached production and real users.
  • Working knowledge of retrieval fundamentals: inverted indexes, BM25, term analysis, and why lexical and semantic retrieval fail in different ways.
  • Vector search in practice: embedding model selection, chunking strategy, approximate nearest neighbor indexing, and hybrid fusion techniques.
  • Hands-on experience with a managed search service. Azure AI Search preferred; Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or Vespa experience transfers.
  • Large language model application engineering, including grounding, citation enforcement, structured output, and abstention behavior.
  • Rigorous retrieval evaluation. You have built a labeled question set, measured recall and precision against it, and used the results to make ranking decisions.
  • Strong Python and comfort with containerized deployment.
  • United States citizenship and eligibility for federal public trust suitability screening.

Preferred qualifications
  • Azure OpenAI and Azure Government experience, including model availability and data handling constraints in government regions.
  • Open-weight model deployment and inference optimization on GPU hardware.
  • Knowledge graph or graph traversal query experience supporting entity lineage.
  • Query-time security trimming against an external identity and permission model.
  • Prior work in a domain where a wrong answer carries consequence: legal, healthcare, regulatory, or financial.
  • Federal delivery experience.

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  • Dice Id: 91132048
  • Position Id: 9065826
  • Posted 2 hours ago
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