GenAI SDE II: Build Production-Grade AI Solutions

Maplecroft; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Verisk Maplecroft in Jersey City is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to build production-grade GenAI systems from experimentation to deployment, collaborating with senior engineers and product owners.

You will work on LLM-based features, RAG, prompt engineering, and observability, contributing to architecture decisions and mentoring junior engineers in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience in software engineering, data science, or machine learning.
• 1+ years of hands-on experience building GenAI/LLM-based features or applications, ideally in production.
• Strong Python skills and experience with modern AI/ML and GenAI frameworks and tooling.
• Working understanding of LLMs, embeddings, RAG, prompt engineering, context Engineering, and GenAI architecture patterns.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and deploying scalable applications to production.
• Understanding of GenAI evaluation, testing, monitoring, and responsible AI practices.
• Ability to work with moderate autonomy, break down ambiguous problems, and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Build features and components for production-grade GenAI products, with a focus on quality, reliability, and performance.
• Implement and iterate on LLM-based solutions, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, context Engineering, Loop Engineering and agentic workflows.
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable Python code and contribute to the broader codebase and infrastructure.
• Help build evaluation and monitoring pipelines to measure output quality, groundedness, and reliability of GenAI features.
• Work with foundation models and GenAI frameworks/tooling, evaluating tradeoffs between approaches under guidance from senior engineers.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and cross-functional stakeholders to translate requirements into working technical solutions.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and engineering best practices across the GenAI development lifecycle.
• Debug and resolve technical issues across the stack, escalating and collaborating with senior team members on complex problems.
• (SDE II) Take ownership of medium-complexity features end-to-end, mentor SDE I engineers, and contribute to architecture and design decisions for GenAI components.

Skills

Python

GenAI frameworks

Prompt engineering

RAG

Cloud-native

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/ML/Data Science or related field

Tools

LLM tooling

Cloud platforms

Job description

Verisk Maplecroft in Jersey City is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to build production-grade GenAI systems from experimentation to deployment, collaborating with senior engineers and product owners.

You will work on LLM-based features, RAG, prompt engineering, and observability, contributing to architecture decisions and mentoring junior engineers in a hybrid work environment.