AI engineer with Python - Locals Only Woodlawn- MD

Job Title: AI engineer with Python

Location: Woodlawn- MD- 5 days onsite – F2F final round, only locals

Experience Level: 12+ years’ experience is must

Key Required Skills:

•             Experience building, scaling, and maintaining production-grade Python applications, AI and chatbot

Position Description:

•             Ensure chatbot reliability, safety, and compliance through moderation, guardrails, and abuse prevention.

•             Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to support production reliability and rapid issue resolution.

•             Design and analyze A/B tests to evaluate the impact of changes to chatbot prompts, models, or features.

•             Lead code reviews and enforce best practices to maintain high engineering standards.

•             Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, cloud deployments, and infrastructure decisions supporting high availability.

•             Evaluate and adopt new AI technologies and architectural improvements to support long-term scalability.

•             Be proactive, adaptable, and highly engaged – communicate clearly, raise risks early, and collaborate effectively to deliver high-quality code at speed.

•             Communicate with stakeholders and support user feedback.

•             Design, implement, and maintain relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB) to support chatbot functionality, session management, and knowledge base storage.

•             Optimize database queries and ensure data integrity, security, and scalability.

•             Manage document indexing and updates in the knowledge base to ensure accurate and efficient retrieval.

Skills Requirements:

Foundation for Success (Basic Qualifications)

•             Bachelor''s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field.

•             Masters or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience

•             10+ years of experience building, scaling, and maintaining production-grade Python applications.

Factors To Help You Shine (Required Skills)

**Selected candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance**

**Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site in Woodlawn, MD 5 days a week**

•             Deep expertise building, scaling, and maintaining production-grade Python applications.

•             Understanding of encryption, secure data storage, and transmission (SSL/TLS).

•             Experience implementing secure login systems (e.g., OAuth2, SAML, Multi-Factor Authentication).

•             Experience with testing frameworks.

•             Experience with relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or NoSQL databases (MongoDB).

•             Familiarity with automated deployment tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions).

•             Strong Python backend engineering experience including API design, asynchronous programming, and system integration.

•             Ability to write clear technical documentation for maintainability and compliance.

•             Proficiency in managing and querying both relational databases and vector databases for semantic search.

•             Hands-on experience working with AI and LLMs in production environments.

•             Solid understanding of key AI/LLM concepts, including prompt engineering, RAG, AI agents, context management, evaluation and structured outputs.

•             Understanding of how to measure LLM performance using frameworks like Ragas, TruLens, or Arize Phoenix to evaluate faithfulness, relevance, and safety.

•             Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems and make sound architectural decisions in ambiguous environments.

•             Strong communication skills with a proven ability to be vocal, engaged, collaborative, proactive, and adaptable within cross-functional teams.

How To Stand Out From The Crowd (Desired Skills)

•             Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, containerization, monitoring, and logging.

•             Prior experience building or operating public-facing, high-availability, or regulated systems.

•             Analyze logs and user interactions to identify usage patterns, common queries, and areas for improvement.

•             Provide recommendations for enhancements based on data analysis to improve chatbot reliability, accuracy, and user experience.

•             Familiarity with AI safety, moderation, and responsible AI practices.

•             Experience working in fast paced, “startup-like" environments.