Senior GenAI Engineer — LLM Apps & RAG

Lovelytics; Chicago, Arlington (IL, VA); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Lovelytics is seeking a Generative AI Engineer (Senior Consultant) to design and deliver client-facing GenAI solutions on the Databricks platform. You will build AI Agents, RAG systems, and end-to-end pipelines, working with language models, vector stores, and orchestration frameworks in a fast-paced consultancy setting.

The ideal candidate has 2–3 years in ML/NLP with 1–2 years on LLMs, strong Databricks experience, and excellent communication to collaborate with business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
• 2–3 years of experience in Machine Learning or NLP; at least 1–2 years working with LLMs or Generative AI systems, preferably on Databricks.
• Proficiency with open‑source LLM tooling such as Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, or similar orchestration libraries.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Databricks (Unity Catalog, MLFlow, Delta Tables, etc.).
• Familiarity with GenAI‑specific challenges including hallucination mitigation, grounding techniques, and evaluation frameworks.
• Experience designing and deploying applications with security, compliance, andscalability in mind.
• Excellent communication skills and a strong ability to engage with technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver client-facing engagements independently or lead workstreams under supervision.
• Build and optimize LLM applications, including AI Agents, RAG systems, evaluation pipelines, prompt chaining, and output refinement.
• Design, implement, and deploy GenAI pipelines using DSPy, MLFlow, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Databricks Mosaic AI.
• Work hands-on with models like OpenAI GPT, LLaMA, Claude; fine-tuning or prompt-tuning as required.
• Ingest and process unstructured and structured data for GenAI systems; vectorization and retrieval.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build UI and API integrations and GenAI-powered experiences.
• Implement security, compliance, evaluation, and governance in GenAI projects.
• Develop evaluation frameworks using MLFlow, Mosaic AI Eval tools, and standard metrics.
• Support CI/CD and DABs for AI applications and promote code and model artifacts across environments.
• Contribute to internal accelerators and reusable GenAI components; design architecture with leadership.
• Work closely with senior leadership to design architecture and delivery plans tailored to client needs.

Skills

LLM tooling

LangChain

Hugging Face Transformers

Databricks

NLP

Communication

Security & Compliance

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Databricks

MLFlow

Delta Tables

Job description

Lovelytics is seeking a Generative AI Engineer (Senior Consultant) to design and deliver client-facing GenAI solutions on the Databricks platform. You will build AI Agents, RAG systems, and end-to-end pipelines, working with language models, vector stores, and orchestration frameworks in a fast-paced consultancy setting.

The ideal candidate has 2–3 years in ML/NLP with 1–2 years on LLMs, strong Databricks experience, and excellent communication to collaborate with business stakeholders.