Senior AI Software Engineer — Production AI & LLM Deployment

Associate Staffing; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Associate Staffing seeks a Senior AI Software Engineer to join an innovative product team building AI-enabled Decision Intelligence solutions. You will design, develop, and deploy production-ready AI products while collaborating with engineers, data scientists, architects, product managers, and designers through continuous Product Discovery and Product Delivery cycles.

In this senior contract role, you’ll implement agent deployment, LLM integration, and RAG patterns, ensure cloud-based

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering delivering AI/ML in production
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline (or equivalent practical experience) preferred

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy production-ready AI products
• Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, engineers, product managers and designers
• Work through discovery-to-delivery cycles to ship AI capabilities at scale
• Ensure observability and production readiness of AI applications

Skills

AI/ML deployment

agent deployment

LLM integration

RAG patterns

Azure AI/ML deployment

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

NoSQL databases

MLOps pipelines

Job description

Associate Staffing seeks a Senior AI Software Engineer to join an innovative product team building AI-enabled Decision Intelligence solutions. You will design, develop, and deploy production-ready AI products while collaborating with engineers, data scientists, architects, product managers, and designers through continuous Product Discovery and Product Delivery cycles.

In this senior contract role, you’ll implement agent deployment, LLM integration, and RAG patterns, ensure cloud-based