Ai Engineer

Lawrence Harvey Search & Selection; New York (NY, NJ); Hybrid; USD 157,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Lawrence Harvey is engaged to fill an Applied AI Engineer role in New York City, offering hybrid work with 4 onsite days. The candidate will build and expand production LLM/RAG applications across internal and external platforms, leveraging a mature AI platform.

Strong Python with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and vector databases is expected, along with AWS deployment experience. The role emphasizes hands-on ownership of real-world AI solutions within a collaborative Applied AI team, contributing to

Qualifications

• Strong production Python development experience with LLM/RAG apps.
• Experience deploying AI applications in AWS or similar cloud environments.
• Experience building document ingestion, chunking and retrieval pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build and expand production LLM and RAG applications across platforms.
• Develop document ingestion, chunking, retrieval and evaluation pipelines.
• Collaborate with the AI team to deliver production-grade AI solutions.

Skills

Python development

FastAPI

RAG pipelines

AWS deployment

Vector databases

Tools

PostgreSQL

Pinecone

Job description

Applied AI Engineer | New York City

Hybrid, 4 days onsite

$157,000–$200,000

Lawrence Harvey has been engaged by a global engineering and consulting organization on a position that is critical to the continued growth of its Applied AI capabilities and expansion of its AI engineering presence in New York City. They are looking for an Applied AI Engineer who will build and expand production LLM and RAG applications across internal and external platforms. You will work across document ingestion, chunking, retrieval, evaluation, APIs, and the broader application layer while leveraging an established AI platform and infrastructure. The successful candidate will be joining a highly technical and collaborative Applied AI team and will play a key role in turning LLM capabilities into reliable, production-grade applications used across the organization. This is an opportunity to join a large global organization that is actively investing in AI in a role that offers hands-on ownership of real-world LLM applications and complex applied AI problems.

The Ideal Candidate has:

• Strong software engineering experience with hands-on ownership of production RAG and LLM applications
• Strong Python development experience with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and vector databases such as Pinecone
• Experience building document ingestion, chunking, retrieval, and LLM evaluation pipelines
• Experience deploying production AI applications within AWS or similar cloud environments

Compensation & Work Arrangement

Salary: $157,000–$200,000Location: New York CityWork Arrangement: Onsite 4 days/weekWork Authorization: Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without any need for current or future employer sponsorship.

Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future employer sponsorship/visa transfer.