Junior Python AI Engineer

BeaconFire Inc.; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

BeaconFire Inc. is looking for an Agentic AI Python Developer to own end-to-end delivery on high-impact projects. You’ll design, build, and deploy web applications using Python, Flask, and Django, with hands-on experience in RAG pipelines, vector databases, and agent frameworks.

Collaboration and growth are emphasized in a modern cloud environment. The role involves ingestion, retrieval, agent orchestration, evaluation, and deployment, along with strong focus on testing, documentation, and CI/CD

Qualifications

• Understanding of the software development/testing life cycle.
• Knowledge of relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Experience with version control tools, such as Git.
• Experience building RAG solutions and familiarity with agentic frameworks.
• Solid knowledge of vector search concepts and at least one vector DB in production.
• Reliability mindset and ability to ship end-to-end features.

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

REST APIs

Vector databases

RAG pipelines

LangChain / LangGraph

Git

Testing

CI/CD

Google Cloud

Vertex AI

SQL databases

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Git

Docker

VS Code

Job description

Rameez here from Beaconfire. I hope you're doing well! We’re currently hiring for an exciting Agentic AI Python Developer role, and I wanted to reach out to see if you or someone in your network might be interested. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on high-impact projects using modern technologies in a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.

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.

Requirement:

• 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.
• Solid knowledge of vector search concepts and at least one vector DB in production.
• reliability mindset.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 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
• Experience with evaluation tooling (RAGAS, TruLens, custom eval harnesses),
• Frontend integration (basic React/Next.js) or platform enablement (internal developer
• tooling).