AI Engineer

Eightelevengroup; Tennessee; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Eightelevengroup is seeking a Gen AI Engineer/Architect to engage in hands-on projects that deliver significant customer value. This role emphasizes technical leadership, collaboration, and advanced software solutions within a primarily remote work environment, requiring occasional travel.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in AI/ML, with excellent skills in Python and modern software development practices. Responsibilities include engineering complex solutions and fostering cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with AI/ML, last year focused on GenAI.
• Proven experience in Python, R, TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native engineering.

Responsibilities

• Engage in hands-on engineering of high-visibility projects.
• Lead requirement analysis, code reviews, and design.
• Develop engineering solutions to solve complex problems.

Skills

AI/ML technologies

Python

JavaScript frameworks (Angular, React)

Cloud-native engineering

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

AWS

GitHub

Job description

Gen AI Engineer/Architect

Direct Hire Opportunity

Location: Nashville, TN or within driving distance

Primarily Remote with 10% travel expectation

As a GenAI Engineer, you will actively engage in your engineering craft, taking a hands‑on approach to multiple high-visibility projects. Your expertise will be pivotal in delivering solutions that delight customers and users, while also driving tangible value for our client’s business investments. You will leverage your extensive GenAI & engineering craftsmanship and advanced proficiency across multiple programming languages and modern frameworks, consistently demonstrating your exemplary track record in delivering high-quality, outcome-focused solutions. The ideal candidate will be a dependable team player and mentor, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy advanced software solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Outcome-Driven Accountability: Embrace and drive a culture of accountability for customer and business outcomes. Develop engineering solutions that solve complex problems with valuable outcomes, ensuring high-quality, lean designs and implementations.
• Technical Leadership and Advocacy: Serve as the technical advocate for products, ensuring code integrity, feasibility, and alignment with business and customer goals. Lead requirement analysis, contributing to low-level architecture and component design, development, unit testing, integrations, and support.
• Engineering Craftsmanship: Maintain accountability for the integrity of code design, implementation, quality, data, and ongoing maintenance and operations. Stay hands‑on, self‑driven, and continuously learn new approaches, languages, and frameworks with significant focus on infusing AI/ML/GenAI where possible/appropriate. Create technical specifications, and write high‑quality, supportable, scalable code and review code of other engineers, mentoring them, to ensure all quality KPIs are met or exceeded. Demonstrate collaborative skills to work effectively with diverse teams.
• Customer‑Centric Engineering: Develop lean engineering solutions through rapid, inexpensive experimentation to solve customer needs. Engage with customers and product teams before, during, and after delivery to ensure the right solution is delivered at the right time.
• Incremental and Iterative Delivery: Adopt a mindset that favors action and evidence over extensive planning. Utilize a leaning-forward approach to navigate complexity and uncertainty, delivering lean, supportable, and maintainable solutions.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration and Integration: Work collaboratively with empowered, cross‑functional teams including product management, experience, and delivery. Integrate diverse perspectives to make well-informed decisions that balance feasibility, viability, usability, and value. Foster a collaborative environment that enhances team synergy and innovation.
• Advanced Technical Proficiency: Possess deep expertise in modern software engineering practices and principles, including AI/ML/GenAI, Agile methodologies and DevSecOps to deliver daily product deployments using full automation from code check‑in to production with all quality checks through SDLC lifecycle. Strive to be a role model, leveraging these techniques to optimize solutioning and product delivery. Demonstrate strong understanding of the full lifecycle product development, focusing on continuous improvement and learning.
• Domain Expertise: Quickly acquire domain‑specific knowledge relevant to the business or product. Translate business/user needs, architectures, and UX/UI designs into technical specifications and code. Be a valuable, flexible, and dedicated team member, supportive of teammates, and focused on quality and tech debt payoff.
• Effective Communication and Influence: Exhibit exceptional communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts clearly and compellingly. Inspire and influence teammates and product teams through well‑structured arguments and trade‑offs supported by evidence. Create coherent narratives that align technical solutions with business objectives.
• Engagement and Collaborative Co‑Creation: Engage and collaborate with product engineering teams at all organizational levels, including customers as needed. Build and maintain constructive relationships, fostering a culture of co‑creation and shared momentum towards achieving product goals. Align diverse perspectives and drive consensus to create feasible solutions.

The Team

Our Client’s Technology Product Engineering has modernized software and product delivery, creating a scalable, cost‑effective model that focuses on value/outcomes that leverages a progressive and responsive talent structure. As the primary internal development team, Product Engineering delivers innovative digital solutions to businesses, service lines, and internal operations with proven bottom-line results and outcomes. It helps power our client’s success. It is the engine that drives our client, serving many of the world’s largest, most respected companies. We develop and deploy cutting‑edge internal and go-to-market solutions that help our client operate effectively and lead in the market. Our reputation is built on a tradition of delivering with excellence.

Qualifications

Required

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline. An advanced degree (e.g., MS) is preferred but not required. Experience is the most relevant factor.
• Excellent software engineering foundation with deep understanding of OOP/OOD, sequence/activity/state/ER/DFD diagrams, data‑structure, algorithms, code instrumentations, etc.
• 3+ years of experience with AI/ML, with last 1 year focused on GenAI as well as technologies like OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, LangChain, Agents, Vector databases, and approaches like Prompt Engineering, fine‑tuning, etc.
• Proven experience in: Python, R, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Julia, ML libraries, NLP, etc.
• Strong understanding and experience in managing big data of various forms to generate insights and create intelligence.
• Proven experience with Angular, React, NodeJS, Python, Streamlit, C#, .NET Core, Golang, SQL/NoSQL.
• Proven experience with cloud‑native engineering, using FaaS/PaaS/micro‑services on cloud hyper‑scalers like Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Strong understanding of methodologies & tools like, XP, Lean, SAFe, DevSecOps, SRE, ADO, GitHub, SonarQube, etc. to deliver high quality products rapidly.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, with the ability to handle diverse situations, complex projects, and changing priorities, behaving with passion, empathy, and care.
• Ability to travel 10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available

Preferred

• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, with the ability to handle diverse situations, complex projects, and changing priorities, behaving with passion, empathy, and care.