Python/GenAI Developer

CAI; Hagåtña (GU); Remote; USD 90,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Job summary

CAI is seeking a Python/GenAI Developer to build and support Python-based backend services and AI solutions leveraging LLMs, RAG, FastAPI, and Google Cloud technologies. The role focuses on delivering secure, scalable, and reliable AI-enabled applications while collaborating with stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle.

This position is contract and remote. Responsibilities include designing APIs, building Generative AI workflows, implementing retrieval pipelines on Vertex AI,

Qualifications

• Minimum 4-7 years of software development experience with Python backend development.
• 1-2 years of Generative AI and LLM-based apps experience.
• 1-2 years of practical experience with RAG solutions incl. embeddings and retrieval.
• Experience building REST APIs using FastAPI or similar frameworks.
• Hands-on with Google Cloud Platform services (Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, Vertex AI, BigQuery).
• Experience with cloud-native development including Docker and CI/CD.
• Experience with Agile delivery teams and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Python-based backend services and APIs for AI-enabled apps.
• Build Generative AI workflows using LLMs and RAG pipelines.
• Develop FastAPI-based REST endpoints and integration with enterprise apps.
• Implement retrieval workflows using Vertex AI, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub and Secret Manager.
• Handle data processing for structured/unstructured inputs and downstream persistence.
• Support testing, deployment, logging, monitoring, and troubleshooting in dev/QA.
• Collaborate with architects, cloud teams, product owners to translate requirements into features.
• Contribute to prompt engineering, validation, error handling, and reliability improvements.

Skills

Python backend

Generative AI

FastAPI

API design

Cloud deployment

Data processing

LMMs integration

Distributed systems

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Vertex AI

BigQuery

Pub/Sub

Cloud Run

Docker

Git/GitHub

FastAPI

Job description

Python/GenAI Developer

Req number:

R8777

Employment type:

Full time

Worksite flexibility:

Remote

Who we are

CAI is a global services firm with over 9,000 associates worldwide and a yearly revenue of $1.3 billion+. We have over 40 years of excellence in uniting talent and technology to power the possible for our clients, colleagues, and communities. As a privately held company, we have the freedom and focus to do what is right—whatever it takes. Our tailor-made solutions create lasting results across the public and commercial sectors, and we are trailblazers in bringing neurodiversity to the enterprise.

Job Summary

As a Python/GenAI Developer, you will Build and enhance enterprise AI applications through Python development, Generative AI integration, API design, data processing, and cloud-based deployment.

Job Description

CAI is seeking a Python/GenAI Developer to build and support Python-based backend services and AI solutions leveraging LLMs, RAG, FastAPI, and Google Cloud technologies. The role focuses on delivering secure, scalable, and reliable AI-enabled applications while collaborating with business and technical stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle. This position is contract and remote.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain Python-based backend services and APIs for AI-enabled applications, with strong emphasis on clean, modular, production-ready code

• Build and integrate Generative AI workflows using LLMs, RAG pipelines, prompt orchestration, and structured-output processing

• Develop FastAPI-based REST endpoints to support file processing, pipeline execution, asynchronous workflows, and integration with external enterprise applications

• Implement retrieval workflows using GCP services such as Vertex AI, Vertex AI Search, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Secret Manager, and Cloud Run

• Develop data-processing logic for structured and unstructured inputs, including document parsing, metadata generation, validation, transformation, and downstream persistence

• Support integration testing, debugging, deployment, logging, monitoring, and troubleshooting of AI applications across development and QA environments

• Collaborate with solution architects, cloud infrastructure teams, product owners, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into working AI features and scalable backend components

• Contribute to prompt engineering, output validation, error handling, retry logic, and guardrails to improve reliability of AI pipeline responses

• Maintain technical documentation, API contracts, configuration files, deployment artifacts, and reusable engineering components

What You'll Need

Required:

• Minimum 4-7 years of software development experience, with strong hands-on experience in Python backend development; programming fundamentals, object-oriented design, modular coding, exception handling, testing, and package management

• Minimum 1-2 years of practical experience with Generative AI and LLM-based applications including prompt engineering, structured outputs, model invocation, response validation, token usage, and basic evaluation concepts

• Minimum 1-2 years of practical experience RAG solutions including document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector retrieval, metadata filtering, reranking, and grounding

• Experience building REST APIs using FastAPI, Flask, or similar Python frameworks; endpoint development, request/response models, authentication, async processing, status handling, and API integration

• Hands-on experience working with Google Cloud Platform, especially Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, Vertex AI, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, IAM, and Secret Manager

• Experience integrating AI/ML services into enterprise applications using APIs, authentication, asynchronous processing, and cloud-native services

• Experience with cloud-native development including Docker, service accounts, environment variables, secrets, CI/CD, deployment, and runtime troubleshooting

• Experience processing structured and unstructured data formats such as JSON, JSONL, Excel, CSV, PDF, Word documents, and text

• Experience with source control, CI/CD, containerization, and deployment workflows using Git, Docker, GitLab/GitHub, and cloud deployment pipelines

• Exposure to debugging distributed or cloud-hosted applications using logs, monitoring, request tracing, and error analysis

• Experience working in Agile delivery teams and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders

Preferred:

• Experience with Agentic AI frameworks or multi-step AI orchestration

• Familiarity with Vertex AI Vector Search, Graph RAG, or knowledge graph concepts

• Experience with Pub/Sub-based asynchronous processing and event-driven architectures

• Understanding of OAuth, service-to-service authentication, IAM, signed URLs, and secure API integration

• Exposure to React or frontend integration is useful but not mandatory

• Familiarity with AI evaluation metrics such as groundedness, relevance, completeness, coherence, and confidence scoring

• Healthcare-domain exposure is beneficial, especially where the solution involves enterprise workflow, requirements, or document intelligence

Physical Demands

• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA and other federal, state and local standards

• Sedentary work that involves sitting or remaining stationary most of the time with occasional need to move around the office to attend meetings

• Ability to conduct repetitive tasks on a computer, utilizing a mouse, keyboard, and monitor

Reasonable accommodation statement

If you require a reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employment selection process, please direct your inquiries to [e-mail] or (888) 824 – 8111.

EEO Statement

It is the policy of Computer Aid, Inc.(CAI) not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or because he or she is a protected veteran. It is also the policy of CAI to take affirmative action to employ and to advance in employment, all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.

Employees and applicants of CAI will not be subject to harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or because he or she is a protected veteran. Additionally, retaliation, including intimidation, threats, or coercion, because an employee or applicant has objected to discrimination, engaged or may engage in filing a complaint, assisted in a review, investigation, or hearing or have otherwise sought to obtain their legal rights under any Federal, State, or local EEO law is prohibited.

$65-$70 per hour

The pay range for this position is listed above. Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including location, experience, and education. Benefit packages include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as 401k retirement account access. Employees in this role may also be entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.