Python - AI Engineer Contractor

Omm IT Solutions • Cary, NC

10d • Onsite

About The Position

This is a 100% on-site contractor position in Cary, NC, requiring 5 days/week of work. The role focuses on building GenAI applications, developing autonomous AI agents, and designing/deploying RAG and GenAI services. The engineer will build scalable REST APIs, implement LLM evaluation frameworks, apply LLMOps/MLOps practices, and develop systems leveraging embeddings, knowledge graphs, and ontology extraction. Collaboration with engineering teams, mentoring developers, and driving innovation in GraphRAG and Agentic AI architectures are key aspects of this role.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, or related field.
• 5+ years of AI/ML-focused software engineering experience.
• Production experience building LLM-based or Agentic AI systems.
• Strong expertise in Python and modern AI frameworks.
• Experience with Embeddings, knowledge graphs, ontology extraction, and advanced RAG/GraphRAG implementations.
• Full-stack development experience (Python back end + modern front end).
• Experience deploying AI workloads to AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Familiarity with LLMOps/MLOps tooling and model evaluation frameworks.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• HackerRank assessment required.

Responsibilities

• Build GenAI applications leveraging foundation models and advanced architectures such as GraphRAG.
• Develop autonomous AI agents using modern Agentic frameworks.
• Design and deploy RAG and GenAI services using Python (FastAPI), Docker, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Build scalable REST APIs that power LLM-driven applications integrated with enterprise data sources.
• Implement LLM evaluation frameworks using tools such as Ragas, LangSmith, or custom benchmarks to measure answer relevance, groundedness, and hallucination rates.
• Apply LLMOps/MLOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, prompt/version management, automated testing, and monitoring of latency, cost, and response quality.
• Develop systems leveraging Embeddings at scale, knowledge graphs, and ontology extraction.
• Collaborate across engineering teams, mentor developers, and help drive innovation in GraphRAG and Agentic AI architectures.

What This Job Offers

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