Senior AI Engineer (Contract & FTE)-3

Lake Mary, Florida, United StatesOnsiteFull TimeSenior$180,000–$180,000 /yrPosted 2 months ago

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Role summary

We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer with 10-12+ years of experience for a full-time, onsite role in Lake Mary, FL. The ideal candidate will have advanced Python skills, experience in API development with FastAPI, and the ability to write production-grade, scalable code. Core responsibilities include working with LLM fundamentals such as prompt engineering and model selection, implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using vector databases like pgvector, and developing agentic frameworks. Experience with evaluation metrics, observability, containerization (Docker), and CI/CD pipelines is also required. This role focuses on building and deploying advanced AI solutions.

Lake Mary, Florida 32746 Posted April 4th, 2026

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Job Type: Full Time

Job Category: IT

Job Description

Role: Senior AI Engineer

Location: Lake Mary, FL (Local’s Prefers)

Contract & FTE Only

Look for Senior/Lead Engineer with 10-12+ years of genuine experience.

Core Programming

Python Intermediate/Advanced - async programming
API Development - FastAPI
Writing production-grade, scalable code
Testing (unit, integration)
Debugging complex distributed system

LLM Fundamentals

Prompt Engineering
Tokenization, context windows
Model selection
Handling hallucinations and grounding responses

Retrieval-Augmented generation (RAG)

Document Ingestion and preprocessing
Chunking Strategies (semantic, recursive, sliding window)
Embeddings
Vector database - pgvector
Hybrid search (keyword (BM25) + semantic)
Re-ranking and relevance tuning

Agentic Frameworks and Orchestration

Multi-agent coordination
Memory Management
Workflow orchestration

Evaluation and Observability

LLM Evaluation metrics (accuracy, faithfulness and relevance)
Prompt/version tracking
Logging and Tracking
Human in the loop (HITL) feedback loops

Deployment and MLOps

Containerization (Docker)
CI/CD pipelines
Monitoring

Required Skills

DEVOPS ENGINEER

SENIOR EMAIL SECURITY ENGINEER

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