Lead AI Engineer
Lead AI Engineer
$75–$95 / Hour
Location
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Experience
—
Posted
Jul 14, 2026
Apply by
August 13, 2026
Applicants
0
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement end-to-end AI pipelines for document ingestion across PDFs, HTML, images, video, and audio
- Build multimodal extraction workflows using OCR, layout parsing, and vision-language models
- Develop LLM-driven compliance reasoning systems
- Build scalable retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems grounded in regulatory content
Requirements
- 8 years of experience in software engineering, machine learning, or applied AI
- Proven track record of building and deploying production-grade AI/ML systems
- Experience in regulated industries such as finance, legal, or healthcare strongly preferred
- Strong expertise in natural language processing and large language models
- Hands-on experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Experience with model evaluation, benchmarking, and performance testing
- Familiarity with multimodal AI, including text, image, and layout understanding
- Strong Python development experience
- Experience with LLM orchestration or agent frameworks such as LangChain or AWS Strands
- Experience with vector databases such as PGVector or Pinecone
- Familiarity with document processing pipelines, including OCR and PDF parsing tools
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Knowledge of MLOps, CI/CD pipelines, model monitoring, and deployment best practices
- Strong background in scalable system design and distributed architectures
- Must be authorized to work in the US: USC, GC, or EAD
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