Lead Consultant, Gen AI

Lovelytics • Arlington, VA

1d • $112,000 - $160,000

About The Position

Lovelytics is seeking a Lead GenAI Consultant with hands-on experience delivering client-facing projects in the Generative AI domain, particularly on the Databricks platform. As part of our growing AI & GenAI practice, this role offers an exciting opportunity to design and deploy state-of-the-art solutions that combine language models, vector databases, and cutting-edge orchestration frameworks. The Lead Consultant will play a pivotal role in delivering client engagements focused on AI Agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), LLM application development, prompt engineering / DSPy, GenAI-driven automation, and advanced NLP. Our ideal candidate blends technical depth with consulting acumen and thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
Note: This position is not eligible for work sponsorship at this time.

Requirements

• Proven hands-on experience building GenAI solutions using LLMs, RAG or broader retrieval patterns, AI agents, tool calling, prompt engineering, and orchestration.
• Solid Databricks experience across relevant capabilities such as Mosaic AI, Model Serving, MLflow, Unity Catalog, Vector Search, Databricks Apps, and Lakehouse architecture.
• Strong Python and software engineering fundamentals, including APIs, testing, Git, CI/CD, and deployment practices.
• Experience with GenAI evaluation, monitoring, guardrails, prompt optimization, and production troubleshooting.
• Ability to independently design and implement moderately complex solution components using structured and unstructured data.
• Working understanding of data engineering, ML, and cloud architecture concepts.
• Ability to lead technical discussions, working sessions, demos, and design reviews with client engineering teams.
• Ability to mentor Senior Consultants and provide constructive technical feedback.

Nice To Haves

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
• 3-5 years of experience, with meaningful experience in data, ML, AI, cloud, or software engineering.
• Demonstrated 1-2 years hands-on GenAI/LLM project experience, preferably including production implementations.
• Experience owning technical workstreams or major solution components.
• Consulting or professional services experience preferred
• Databricks certifications and broader familiarity with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
• Experience with DSPy, automated prompt optimization, fine-tuning, synthetic data generation, or advanced evaluation approaches.
• Experience with Agentic AI, multi-agent systems, MCP, human-in-the-loop workflows, or advanced orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of significant GenAI and Agentic AI workstreams on Databricks, from detailed design through production implementation.
• Own technical execution for assigned solution components, including design decisions, development, testing, deployment, and operational readiness.
• Provide day-to-day technical guidance to Senior Consultants and review code, architecture, and implementation quality.
• Work directly with client technical teams to clarify requirements, communicate progress, resolve blockers, and explain technical tradeoffs.
• Ensure solutions follow GenAI engineering standards for quality, security, evaluation, observability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Contribute to technical discovery, estimates, demos, solution design, and reusable GenAI assets.

Benefits

• Meaningful, cutting-edge projects in Generative AI with clients across industries—from Fortune 100 firms to disruptive startups.
• Rapid learning and mentorship opportunities with AI/GenAI thought leaders and practitioners.
• A culture of experimentation, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Opportunity to be a conference speaker, blogger, writer.
• A diverse, inclusive team and one of the best GenAI teams, where your voice, ideas, and contributions are highly valued.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior