AI/ML Engineer-W2 only

Steneral Consulting; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Steneral Consulting is seeking an experienced AI/ML Engineer to design, build and operate AI/ML infrastructure and agentic systems. You will design MCP servers/agents, integrate LLMs and implement RAG pipelines for production use.

The role emphasizes prompt engineering, toolchain telemetry, and scalable deployments on Kubernetes/Docker with Google Cloud. Collaboration across teams is required for reliable, cost-efficient AI workloads.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of strong software engineering (Python/NodeJS) and production services.
• 2+ years of experience with LLMs, prompts and agent frameworks.
• 2+ years implementing RAG with embeddings and vector databases.
• 2+ years using LangChain patterns and toolchain telemetry for tracing.
• 5+ years Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code.
• 2+ years Google Cloud Platform services experience.
• 2+ years observability, testing, security for distributed systems.
• Knowledge of vector stores and embedding providers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate MCP servers and MCP agents that host, orchestrate and monitor AI/agent workloads.
• Develop agentic AI, prompt engineering patterns, LLM integrations and developer tooling for production use.
• Own deployment, scaling, reliability and cost-efficiency on Kubernetes/Docker and Google Cloud with automated CI/CD
• Design and implement RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) pipelines and integrations with vector stores and retrieval tooling; use LangChain and Langfuse for orchestration, chaining, and observability.
• Implement and maintain MCP server and agent code, APIs, and SDKs for model access and agent orchestration.
• Design agent behavior, workflows and safety guards for agentic AI systems.
• Create, test and iterate prompt templates, evaluation harnesses and grounding/chain of thought strategies.
• Integrate LLMs and model providers (self hosted and cloud APIs) with unified adapters and telemetry.
• Build developer tooling: CLI, local runner, simulators, and debugging tools for agents and prompts.
• Containerize services (Docker), manage orchestration (Kubernetes/GKE), and optimize nodes, autoscaling and resource requests.
• Ensure observability: logging, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting and SLOs for model infra and agents.
• Create runbooks, playbooks and incident response procedures; reduce MTTR and perform postmortems.
• Design and maintain RAG workflows: document chunking, embeddings, vector indexing, retrieval strategies, re ranking and context injection.
• Integrate and instrument LangChain for composable chains, agents and tooling; use Langfuse (or equivalent tracing) to capture prompts, model calls, RAG traces and evaluation telemetry.

Skills

Python

NodeJS

System design

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Docker

GCP

Observability

LangChain

Prompt engineering

Tools

LangChain

Langfuse

Vector stores

CI/CD tooling

Job description

AI/ML Engineer- ** 3 OPENINGS**

HYBRID **MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

Location: Scottsdale, AZ or Dallas, TX (HYBRID) - Locals only

ROPES AI Assessment - First Step

MUST INTEVRIEW ONSITE FOR 2nd ROUND INTERVIEW

Must have a valid LinkedIn with Picture and Location

Need Genuine Visa Copy and DL

Job Description

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced AIML Engineer to design, build, and operate AI/ML infrastructure and agentic systems. This role involves developing MCP servers and agents, integrating LLMs, and implementing RAG pipelines for production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate MCP servers and MCP agents that host, orchestrate and monitor AI/agent workloads.
• Develop agentic AI, prompt engineering patterns, LLM integrations and developer tooling for production use.
• Own deployment, scaling, reliability and cost-efficiency on Kubernetes/Docker and Google Cloud with automated CI/CD
• Design and implement RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) pipelines and integrations with vector stores and retrieval tooling; use LangChain and Langfuse for orchestration, chaining, and observability.

Core Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain MCP server and agent code, APIs, and SDKs for model access and agent orchestration.
• Design agent behavior, workflows and safety guards for agentic AI systems.
• Create, test and iterate prompt templates, evaluation harnesses and grounding/chain of thought strategies.
• Integrate LLMs and model providers (self hosted and cloud APIs) with unified adapters and telemetry.
• Build developer tooling: CLI, local runner, simulators, and debugging tools for agents and prompts.
• Containerize services (Docker), manage orchestration (Kubernetes/GKE), and optimize nodes, autoscaling and resource requests.
• Ensure observability: logging, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting and SLOs for model infra and agents.
• Create runbooks, playbooks and incident response procedures; reduce MTTR and perform postmortems.
• Design and maintain RAG workflows: document chunking, embeddings, vector indexing, retrieval strategies, re ranking and context injection.
• Integrate and instrument LangChain for composable chains, agents and tooling; use Langfuse (or equivalent tracing) to capture prompts, model calls, RAG traces and evaluation telemetry.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of Strong Software Engineering (Python/NodeJS), system design and production service experience.
• 2+ years of Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and agent frameworks.
• 2+ years of Experience Practical experience implementing RAG: embeddings, vector DBs and retrieval tuning.
• 2+ years of Experience with LangChain patterns and with toolchain telemetry (Langfuse or similar) for prompt/model traceability.
• 5+ years of Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD and infrastructure as code experience.
• 2+ years of Experience with Practical experience with Google Cloud Platform services
• 2+ years of Experience with Observability, testing, and security best practices for distributed systems.
• 2+ years of Experience with evaluating and mitigating retrieval/augmentation failures, hallucinations, and leakage risks in RAG systems.
• Familiarity with vendor and open source vector stores and embedding providers