Job Title: Senior AI Engineer(Java)
Location: Remote
Duration: 18 Months + Extension
Bill Rate: $70- $78/hour
Job Type: C2C/1099 Contract
Client: To Be Discussed Later
Work Authorization: US-Citizen, H-1B, OPT-EAD, GC-EAD
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable backend applications and services using Java and Spring Boot.
- Build event-driven and distributed services using Kafka, REST APIs, and microservices architecture.
- Integrate NLP, Machine Learning, and LLM capabilities into Java-based enterprise applications.
- Develop NLP solutions for text classification, clustering, intent detection, and related use cases.
- Design and deploy LLM workflows involving prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, and RAG.
- Develop integrations between Java applications and Python-based AI/ML or model-serving services.
- Contribute to agentic AI workflows, including multi-step interactions, tool execution, validation, and workflow orchestration.
- Apply production engineering practices covering scalability, resiliency, security, testing, monitoring, and performance optimization.
- Contribute to LLMOps/MLOps practices, including evaluation, monitoring, versioning, deployment, and lifecycle management.
- Collaborate with AI/ML, Product, Platform, Data, and DevOps teams.
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, technical planning, and production support.
- Mentor junior and offshore engineers and promote engineering best practices.
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of total technology/software engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on backend development experience with Java.
- Strong experience with Spring Boot, REST APIs, and Microservices.
- Experience with Kafka or comparable event-driven messaging technologies.
- Practical experience implementing or integrating AI/ML capabilities into production applications.
- Experience with NLP use cases such as text classification and clustering.
- Experience integrating ML models, NLP services, or LLM-based capabilities with enterprise applications.
- Hands-on experience with:
- Prompt Engineering
- LLM Evaluation
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Strong SQL and relational database experience.
- Experience with software testing, CI/CD, security, monitoring, and production support.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
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