Generative AI Engineer

BeaconFire Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

BeaconFire Inc. is seeking a skilled Python web engineer to design and build high quality web applications using Flask and Django. You will contribute to scalable backend systems, implement RAG solutions, and collaborate closely with the team to ship production-ready APIs.

You will write clean, maintainable code, conduct reviews, and participate in planning, estimation, and prioritization. The role emphasizes staying current with Python technologies and ensuring reliability and security in cloud

Qualifications

• Experience in Python3 software development.
• Understanding of the software development and testing life cycle.
• Knowledge of relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Experience with Git.
• Experience building RAG solutions.
• Familiar with agentic frameworks (LangGraph/LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel).
• Experience with cloud services and Vertex AI.

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.

Skills

Python

Flask

Django

Git

REST APIs

RAG pipelines

Vertex AI

LangGraph/LangChain

CI/CD

Documentation

Testing

Tools

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Google Cloud

Job description

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.

Requirement:

• Experience in software development in Python3.


• 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, embeddings, prompt + schema design).


• Familiar with at least one agentic framework (e.g., LangGraph/LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen) and tool/function calling patterns.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ year professional experience in Python web application development with either Flask or Django.


• Experience in RESTful API development in Python.


• Understanding of Python web application frameworks such as Flask or Django.


• Experience with Cloud services, such as AWS.


• Experience with Vertex AI and GCP fundamentals (IAM, logging/monitoring, Cloud Run/GKE, storage).


• Knowledge graphs for RAG (entity linking, graph traversal + retrieval fusion).


• Streaming/messaging (Pub/Sub, Kafka), document pipelines (Document AI), and multilingual retrieval.


• Experience with evaluation tooling (RAGAS, TruLens, custom eval harnesses), prompt/version management.


• Frontend integration (basic React/Next.js) or platform enablement (internal developer tooling).