Forward-Deployed AI Engineer - Entry Level

E-emphasys Technologies

Cary (NC)

On-site

USD 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Job summary

VitalEdge is seeking an Associate Applied AI Engineer to join our growing AI team. Based in Cary, NC (or Boston, MA), you will translate business workflows into practical AI solutions, contribute production-quality code, and support deployments from prototype through adoption.

You will work alongside the Senior Applied AI Engineer, learn quickly, collaborate with business stakeholders, and build repeatable capabilities while staying current with emerging AI patterns and tooling.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree completed recently in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline.
  • Strong Python experience demonstrated through internships, research, coursework, open-source contributions, a capstone, or personal projects.
  • Understanding of algorithms, data structures, APIs, databases, testing, version control, and software development practices.
  • Foundational experience building AI-enabled applications using agents, orchestration, RAG, MCP or tool integrations, context engineering, harness engineering, loop engineering, graph engineering, and evals.
  • Demonstrated ability to learn an unfamiliar business or technical domain, ask strong questions, and turn ambiguity into structured work.
  • Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate with engineers, functional teams, and subject-matter experts.
  • Evidence of ownership, initiative, and follow-through in an academic, internship, research, or project setting.

Responsibilities

  • Translate business workflows into technical builds.
  • Build AI agents and multi-agent workflows and automation solutions under guidance.
  • Create RAG pipelines, MCP-based tool integrations, APIs, and connections to enterprise data sources.
  • Contribute across context, harness, loop, and graph engineering to improve agent performance and reliability.
  • Create and maintain evals, tests, monitoring, and documentation for production AI systems.
  • Write clean, tested code and support deployment and production operations.

Skills

Python
Algorithms
APIs
Databases
Version control
Cloud
Communication

Education

CS/AI/ML/DS/SE degree

Tools

Git
SQL
REST APIs
Cloud platforms
Containers
CI/CD

Job description

VitalEdge is seeking an Associate Applied AI Engineer to join our growing AI team. Based in Cary, NC (or Boston, MA), you will translate business workflows into practical AI solutions, contribute production-quality code, and support deployments from prototype through adoption.

You will work alongside the Senior Applied AI Engineer, learn quickly, collaborate with business stakeholders, and build repeatable capabilities while staying current with emerging AI patterns and tooling.

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