AI Engineer

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking an AI Engineer in San Diego for a hybrid role. The position focuses on designing intelligent AI agents, building scalable cloud-native frameworks, and delivering GenAI solutions from concept to production deployment.

The ideal candidate will have 2+ years in AI/backend development, strong Python, and experience with AI/LLM applications, RAG, and orchestration frameworks.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of AI engineering, backend development, software engineering, or AI infrastructure.
• Strong Python development experience.
• Experience building AI/LLM applications, agents, or automation workflows.
• Experience with cloud-native APIs and AWS/Azure/GCP.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop intelligent AI agents and autonomous systems.
• Build scalable, cloud-native AI frameworks and services.
• Develop GenAI and agentic AI solutions from concept through production deployment.
• Partner with AI researchers, product teams, and software engineers to deliver enterprise AI capabilities.
• Create foundational components enabling reasoning, planning, memory, automation, and orchestration in AI systems.
• Contribute to cutting-edge AI initiatives focused on intelligent automation and business transformation.

Skills

Python

AI engineering

Backend development

LLM applications

Cloud-native

CI/CD

AWS/Azure/GCP

Containers

API development

Prompt engineering

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

LLM tooling

Orchestration frameworks

Job description

San Diego, CA (Hybrid: 3 days onsite / 2 days remote) 6-Month Contract-to-Hire (W2) Immediate Hiring Need | Candidates able to start quickly preferred

What You'll Do

• Design and develop intelligent AI agents and autonomous systems.
• Build scalable, cloud-native AI frameworks and services.
• Develop GenAI and agentic AI solutions from concept through production deployment.
• Partner with AI researchers, product teams, and software engineers to deliver enterprise AI capabilities.
• Create foundational components that enable reasoning, planning, memory, automation, and orchestration within AI systems.
• Contribute to cutting-edge AI initiatives focused on intelligent automation and business transformation.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in AI engineering, backend development, software engineering, or AI infrastructure.
• Strong Python development experience.
• Experience building AI/LLM applications, agents, or automation workflows.
• Hands-on experience with: RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) Vector databases Prompt engineering LLM integration AI tooling and orchestration frameworks
• Experience building backend APIs and cloud-native applications.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with containers, CI/CD, and modern software deployment practices.

Nice to Have

• Experience with AI agents and agent-based architectures.
• Knowledge of MCP servers, graph-based memory, NLP frameworks, and AI observability.
• Experience designing agent capabilities such as memory management, context handling, identity, and governance.
• Exposure to Java, Go, or C++.
• Experience with distributed systems and large-scale production environments.

Beacon Hill is an equal opportunity employer and individuals with disabilities and/or protected veterans are encouraged to apply.

California residents: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Beacon Hill offers a robust benefit package including, but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, and federal and state leave programs as required by applicable agency regulations to those that meet eligibility.

Upon successfully being hired, details will be provided related to our benefit offerings.

We look forward to working with you.Beacon Hill. Employing the Future