Generative AI Tech Lead: LLMs, RAG & Scalable AI

HTC Global Services; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group Health

Paid Time Off

401(k) matching

Life and Disability Insurance

Professional Development

Job summary

HTC Global Services is seeking an AI/Generative AI Tech Lead to drive production-grade AI solutions, leveraging LLMs, RAG, and cloud platforms. The role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership across engineers, data scientists, and business teams to deliver scalable AI applications and integrate capabilities into enterprise systems.

The candidate will lead end‑to‑end AI initiatives, implement prompt engineering, build REST APIs and microservices, and collaborate with senior staff

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of software engineering/AI/ML experience.
• Experience with Machine Learning and Generative AI applications.
• Hands-on with LLMs and prompt engineering (Claude, Kiro).
• Experience building RAG applications (embeddings, vector search).
• Experience with REST APIs and microservices.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD practices.
• Understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement AI/ML solutions.
• Build Generative AI applications using LLMs.
• Develop RAG-based applications using embeddings and vector databases.
• Integrate LLMs (OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, etc.).
• Develop AI-powered chatbots, document summarization, classification, extraction, and knowledge management.
• Implement prompt engineering and evaluate LLM outputs.
• Build and expose AI capabilities via REST APIs and microservices.
• Work with structured and unstructured data; develop data pipelines.
• Apply cloud services on AWS for AI solutions.
• Collaborate with engineers and architects to deliver scalable solutions.
• Contribute to POCs and evaluate emerging AI technologies.
• Develop tests and monitoring for AI apps; ensure security and governance.
• Create technical docs, solution design, and knowledge sharing.
• Manage a team of offshore AI Engineers.

Skills

AI/ML

LLMs

Prompt engineering

REST APIs

CI/CD

Git

Agile methodology

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

LangChain

LangGraph

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

LangChain

LangGraph

OpenAI platform

Azure OpenAI

AWS Bedrock

Job description

HTC Global Services is seeking an AI/Generative AI Tech Lead to drive production-grade AI solutions, leveraging LLMs, RAG, and cloud platforms. The role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership across engineers, data scientists, and business teams to deliver scalable AI applications and integrate capabilities into enterprise systems.

The candidate will lead end‑to‑end AI initiatives, implement prompt engineering, build REST APIs and microservices, and collaborate with senior staff