AI Engineer

Kforce has a client that is seeking an AI Engineer in Jersey City, NJ.

Duties Include: * Collaborate with business partners and peers within the organization to understand and scope the problem, gather business requirements, and facilitate the data integration process * Work closely with team of data scientists to develop, implement and test Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning models to solve complex business challenges on Azure platform * Research and implement state-of-the-art modeling approaches including but not limited to zero-shot/few-shot learning, embedding techniques, fine-tuning, etc.

* Ensure high quality code that meets business objectives, quality standards and secure web development guidelines * Integrate with data/document sources using APIs and/or data pipelines * Create excellent working relationships with business partners across the organization, IT, and Analytics peer groups * Effectively communicate with key stakeholders in written, oral and presentation formats* 4+ years of experience in Machine Learning (ML), with deep expertise in writing, and reviewing production code in Python * Knowledge of ML frameworks and libraries (such as TensorFlow/Pytorch), and exposure to various ML algorithms and their practical implementation in production at large scale * Experience with designing and deploying scalable end-to-end Machine Learning/NLP systems as Databricks jobs/dockerized containers * Experience in distributed, high throughput and low latency architecture * Experience with NLP techniques around text cleaning/pre-processing, entity extraction, encoder-decoder architectures, similarity matching, etc.

* Experience with Prompt Engineering techniques * Understanding of LLM functionality and inference techniques * Experience building software on top of containerization technology (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.), and familiarity with frameworks/tools such as FastAPI, Uvicorn * Familiarity with Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins * Experience with architecting and consuming APIs in a scalable (multi-threaded/batched) fashion * Ability to multi-task, learn new things quickly, and have excellent problem solving and communication skills * A mindset for collaboration, knowledge sharing and keeping up to date on emerging industry trends * Appetite for learning and keeping up to date on the latest generative AI technologies and processes