Gen AI Engineer

BeaconFire Inc.; New Jersey; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

BeaconFire Inc. in New Jersey is looking for an experienced AI developer to build and design tool-using agents and work with vector and graph databases. You will be involved in all stages from design to deployment, collaborating within a team to develop high quality web applications. Key qualifications include proficiency in Python and familiarity with RAG frameworks. This is a great opportunity for those looking to excel in a hands-on development environment.

Qualifications

• Decent understanding of the software development/testing life cycle.
• Knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Experience building RAG solutions, including hybrid search and reranking.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on designing and developing high-quality web applications.
• Write clean and efficient code and ensure maintainability.
• Design and implement RAG pipelines on Google Cloud.
• Build agentic workflows using Python-first frameworks.
• Conduct testing and create technical documentation.

Skills

Python

Flask

Django

Git

RAG frameworks

Tools

Google Cloud

Vector databases

Graph databases

Job description

BeaconFire is based in Central NJ, specializing in Software Development, Web Development, and Business Intelligence; looking for a strong agentic AI developer who can build and design reliable tool-using agents, and work comfortably with vector databases and graph databases. You’ll own end-to-end delivery: ingestion, retrieval, agent orchestration, evaluation, and deployment.

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team to design and develop high quality Web applications using
• Python, Flask, Django, and related technologies.
• Write clean and efficient code, and ensure code maintainability and reusability.
• Design and implement RAG pipelines on Google Cloud / Vertex AI (chunking, embeddings, indexing, retrieval, reranking, grounding).
• Build agentic workflows (tool use, planning, reflection/guardrails, structured outputs) using Python-first frameworks.
• Perform code reviews to ensure code quality and consistency.
• Conduct testing to ensure application quality and reliability.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for web applications.
• Participate in project planning, estimation, and prioritization.
• Stay up to date with the latest technologies for Python development.
• Define and run evaluation (retrieval metrics, answer quality, hallucination/grounding checks), and improve system quality iteratively.
• Ship to production: APIs, monitoring/observability, cost/performance optimization, CI/CD, and security best practices.

Requirements

• Decent understanding of the software development/testing life cycle.
• Knowledge of relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc)slanguage skills
• Experience with version control tools, such as Git.
• Experience building RAG solutions (hybrid search, reranking, chunking strategies,
• Familiar with at least one agentic framework (e.g., LangGraph/LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen) and tool/function calling patterns.