AI Engineer (Entry Level) - Onsite

CGS Business Solutions is committed to helping you, as an esteemed IT Professional, find the next right step in your career. We match professionals like you to rewarding consulting or full-time opportunities in your area of expertise. We are currently seeking Technical Professionals who are searching for challenging and rewarding jobs for the following opportunity:

Our client in Orange County, CA, an innovative leader with specialty in the Military/DoD space is seeking an entry-level AI Engineer to join their team. This is a contract-to-hire role designed for someone with a strong coding foundation and a fire in the belly to grow into applied AI engineering.

We welcome candidates from non-traditional backgrounds whether you re a self-taught programmer, college student, or early-career developer as long as you can demonstrate your ability. Past projects, code samples, GitHub repos, or even a live coding demo will be part of the evaluation process.

What You ll Do

• Fine-tune and adapt models from Anthropic and open-source/local ecosystems (e.g., LLaMA, Mistral, Stable Diffusion)
• Build and optimize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines for text and image applications
• Create internal AI tools and APIs to deliver real business outcomes
• Manage training and inference workloads on cloud GPUs (Azure, AWS, etc.)
• Experiment with efficiency techniques (LoRA, quantization, adapters)
• Prepare datasets and evaluate models with a focus on applied performance

What We re Looking For

• Proven AI coding ability (Node.js or React helpful)
• Willingness to show past projects or share live code
• Exposure to (or strong interest in learning) PyTorch, Hugging Face, TensorFlow
• Curiosity about model tuning, embeddings, and RAG systems
• Familiarity with Azure cloud services or other cloud GPU platforms
• Creative problem solver who can learn fast and adapt
• A builder s mindset we value drive, not just degrees

Why This Role

• Opportunity to break into AI engineering with hands-on mentoring
• Work with both frontier AI models (Anthropic) and local open-source models
• Real-world projects across text, image, and applied tool creation
• Grow quickly in a fast-paced, outcome-driven environment

About CGS Business Solutions: CGS specializes in IT business solutions, staffing and consulting services. With a strong focus in IT Applications, Network Infrastructure, Information Security, and Engineering. CGS is an INC 5000 company and is honored to be selected as one of the Best IT Recruitment Firms in California. After five consecutive Fastest Growing Company titles, CGS continues to break into new markets across the USA. Companies are counting on CGS to attract and help retain these resource pools in order to gain a competitive advantage the rapidly changing business environments.