AI Engineer / AI Implementation Lead

Apply now: AI Engineer / AI Implementation Lead, location is Hybrid (3 days/week onsite in Wilmington, DE). The start date is 2 weeks from offer for this permanent position.

Job Title: AI Engineer / AI Implementation Lead
Location-Type: Hybrid (Wilmington, DE)- 3 days a week
Start Date Is: 2 weeks from offer
Duration: Permanent
Salary Range: 140-150K

Job Description:
Own end-to-end design, development, and deployment of AI-powered solutions within AWS to drive business impact in a regulated financial services environment.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and deploy AI/ML and LLM-based solutions in AWS

• Translate business problems into scalable AI architectures

• Develop and optimize RAG pipelines, agents, and automation workflows

• Implement prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails

• Partner with product, engineering, risk, and business stakeholders

• Deploy and monitor production-grade AI systems

• Support CI/CD, MLOps, and AI governance best practices

• Assess legacy processes and recommend AI-driven improvements

Requirements:

• Must-Haves:

  • 5 years of software engineering, ML, or applied AI experience

  • Professional experience building and deploying AI solutions in production

  • Strong Python development experience (IDE-based development)

  • Experience deploying cloud solutions in AWS (Azure acceptable)

  • Hands-on LLM experience (OpenAI, Anthropic/Claude, or open-source models)

  • Experience working with third-party vendors

  • Ability to operate in regulated environments (financial services preferred)

  • Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders

  • Must be USC and able to pass a credit background check

• Nice-to-Haves:

  • Experience with RAG architectures, vector databases, embeddings

  • MLOps / LLMOps experience

  • Experience in financial services or other regulated industries

  • Experience transitioning legacy systems

  • Prior technical leadership or initiative ownership