Lead AI Engineer
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Lead AI Engineer
$75–$95 / Hour
Location
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Experience
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Posted
Jul 14, 2026
Apply by
August 13, 2026
Applicants
0
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Job Description
We are seeking a Lead AI Engineer to design and build an AI-powered compliance screening platform that evaluates communications for adherence to regulatory standards and industry guidelines. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of artificial intelligence, regulatory compliance, and risk management. The successful candidate will lead development of systems that analyze content across multiple formats, including PDFs, emails, social media, and video, and generate auditable, explainable compliance decisions. This is a 12+ month contract engagement, hybrid based out of Rockville, MD or McLean, VA, requiring 3 days onsite and 2 days remote per week. Candidates must be authorized to work in the US (USC/GC/EAD).
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
Skills Required
OCRAWSRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)PythonLarge Language Models (LLM)LangChainNatural Language Processing (NLP)Machine LearningVector DatabasesMLOps
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