AI Architect – Senior Python & AI Engineer

AI Architect – Senior Python & AI Engineer
Location: Worcester ,MA Hybrid (2 days/week onsite for local candidates) | Remote candidates accepted
Job Type: Contract

Job Description:
We are looking for a Senior AI Architect with strong Python and AI/LLM expertise to enhance, debug, and support our production AI applications. This role spans backend services, LLM-driven workflows, and cloud infrastructure, delivering reliable, scalable, and secure solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and enhance backend services (Java/Python) supporting AI/ML workflows
• Troubleshoot and debug complex issues across application, integration, and production environments
• Own production support: incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements
• Improve reliability, performance, and observability (logging, tracing, metrics, alerting)
• Build and optimize LLM/GenAI integrations — prompt orchestration, response quality, cost/performance trade-offs
• Implement robust testing (unit, integration, regression) and drive code quality through reviews and standards
• Collaborate with business, product, and operations teams to prioritize enhancements and fixes
• Support CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and environment stability
• Document architecture, troubleshooting guides, and production runbooks
• Mentor junior developers and champion engineering best practices

Required Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience building and supporting production-grade APIs/microservices (FastAPI/Flask)
• Experience with AI/LLM-based applications — prompt design, orchestration frameworks, model integration
• Strong debugging skills in distributed systems and asynchronous workloads
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Strong knowledge of SQL/NoSQL data handling and API integration patterns
• Familiarity with observability tools (structured logs, tracing, monitoring dashboards, alerts)
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and CI/CD workflows
• Excellent communication skills; comfortable in a support-heavy, fast-moving environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Python strongly preferred
• Experience in underwriting/insurance, document extraction, or NLP pipelines
• Exposure to vector search, RAG, semantic retrieval, and model evaluation
• Experience with secure coding, data privacy controls, and compliance-driven systems
• Prior on-call/production support ownership in enterprise systems

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