Senior Gen AI Engineer – Freelancer

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Senior Gen AI Engineer building production AI and LLM applications for a technology, media, and information client. Delivering customer-focused solutions from prototypes through deployment and optimization.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and implement scalable AI and Generative AI solutions aligned with business and product requirements
  • Build and productionize LLM-powered applications, intelligent automation systems, and AI-driven workflows
  • Partner directly with customers, product teams, and internal stakeholders as a Forward Deployment Engineer
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into practical AI architectures, prototypes, and production implementations
  • Develop, test, deploy, and optimize AI models and applications across cloud and enterprise environments
  • Integrate foundation models and LLM APIs into scalable applications, considering performance, reliability, security, and cost
  • Evaluate emerging Gen AI technologies, frameworks, and models for business use cases
  • Troubleshoot model and application issues and improve system quality, latency, scalability, and accuracy
  • Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver end-to-end AI solutions
  • Develop reusable components, APIs, tools, and frameworks that accelerate AI application deployment
  • Establish evaluation, monitoring, and testing approaches for AI and LLM-based systems
  • Stay current with Generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, model orchestration, and enterprise AI deployment

Requirements:

  • 5–13 years of experience in software engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related technical domains
  • Strong hands-on experience in AI and Generative AI application development
  • Solid understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs), foundation models, prompt engineering, model APIs, and AI application architecture
  • Proven experience taking AI solutions from prototype to production
  • Strong Forward Deployment Engineering mindset with the ability to work directly with users or customers and rapidly build solutions around their requirements
  • Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals
  • Experience designing scalable, reliable, and maintainable AI-powered systems
  • Ability to independently investigate technical problems and deliver solutions in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, particularly when working across technical and non-technical teams
  • Experience with LangChain or similar LLM orchestration frameworks
  • Hands-on experience building Agentic AI systems, autonomous workflows, or AI agents
  • Experience implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines
  • Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, and document processing
  • Familiarity with AI evaluation frameworks, observability, guardrails, and LLM application monitoring
  • Experience with cloud platforms and modern deployment practices such as Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD
  • Exposure to multi-agent architectures, tool calling, function calling, and workflow orchestration