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Senior AI Engineer (Contract & FTE)-4

Lake Mary, Florida, United StatesOnsiteContractSenior$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. Responsibilities include working with LLM fundamentals, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques, agentic frameworks, and evaluation/observability. Experience with containerization, CI/CD, and monitoring is also required. This role is for both contract and full-time employees.

Lake Mary, Florida 32746 Posted April 6th, 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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