Senior AI/ML Engineer W2 only

Location: Plano, TX (5 days Onsite)

Duration: 6 Months (Contract to hire)

Rate –  $95/hr

Visa – TN (Canadian) -EAD

Interview process: 1^st Round Zoom & (Final interview - In person). Live coding involved. Can come for an in-person interview to NY office as well, will be working from Plano, TX headquarters)

Must Have skills:

• java or python
• proficient with AI_ML architecture hands on work in production
• CICD pipeline
• API building

Job Description:

• 10 plus years of software development experience (Java or Python).
• 2 plus years of handson experience building AI/ML applications in production.
• Strong proficiency with RAG architectures — chunking strategies, embedding models, vector stores (Pinecone, OpenSearch, pgvector, FAISS).
• Experience with AI orchestration frameworks: LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or CrewAI.
• Handson experience with AWS Bedrock, Anthropic Claude models, and model invocation APIs.
• Proven prompt engineering skills — system prompts, fewshot, chain-of-thought, tool use, structured outputs.
• Experience building conversational AI: chatbots (text) and voicebots (speechto-text, text-to-speech integration).
• Proficiency with AWS services (Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, SQS).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, ECS/EKS), and infrastructureas-code.
• Strong understanding of API design (REST, GraphQL), microservices architecture, and eventdriven systems.
• Familiarity with evaluation frameworks for LLM outputs.
• Experience with guardrails, content filtering, and responsible AI practices.