Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Providence - Rag/LLM/Ai

Kelly Services; Providence (RI); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance options

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time away from work

401(k) plan with company matching

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for its Providence, RI team on a hybrid schedule. You will lead technical efforts turning emerging AI concepts into durable, large-scale product capabilities.

You will focus on generative AI, semantic search, and multi-step agent workflows, combining hands-on development with technical leadership to establish reusable platform patterns and governance across a global product portfolio.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering applied ML solutions in production.
• Experience with LLMs, AI agents, and retrieval pipelines.
• Strong Python programming ability.
• Experience deploying on AWS and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• 100% hands-on technical contribution.
• Develop and release AI features that improve how professionals discover, evaluate, and use complex information.
• Create scalable services and shared infrastructure for distributed machine learning applications.
• Implement retrieval pipelines, agent orchestration, and supporting components for generative AI products.
• Coordinate with application, cloud, data, and security teams to meet performance, reliability, and governance requirements.

Skills

Applied ML design

LLMs & AI agents

Retrieval-augmented generation

MLOps practices

Python programming

AWS & Kubernetes

Education

PhD preferred or equivalent

Computer science / ML degree

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

$80 - $90

Job Description

A well-established enterprise information and analytics organization is adding a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to its Providence team. Working on a hybrid schedule, this person will lead technical efforts that turn emerging AI concepts into durable, large-scale product capabilities.

You will focus on intelligent tools built for research-intensive professional users, with an emphasis on generative AI, semantic search, retrieval frameworks, and multi-step agent workflows. The role blends hands-on development with technical leadership: evaluating new approaches, shaping reusable platform patterns, and establishing standards that help AI solutions operate consistently across a global product portfolio.

Required Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience designing and delivering applied machine learning solutions
• Proven ability to build systems powered by large language models and AI agents
• Strong understanding of retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, and vector-based search
• Experience supporting model delivery through MLOps tooling and production practices
• Advanced Python programming ability
• Experience deploying cloud-native services with AWS and Kubernetes

Desired Skills & Experience

• Prior work in legal technology, knowledge management, publishing, or another information-rich industry
• 12 or more years of software development experience, or at least 8 years plus a doctorate
• Degree in computer science, machine learning, engineering, or a comparable technical field

What You Will Be Doing

Daily Responsibilities

• 100% hands-on technical contribution
• Develop and release AI features that improve how professionals discover, evaluate, and use complex information
• Create scalable services and shared infrastructure for distributed machine learning applications
• Implement retrieval pipelines, agent orchestration, and supporting components for generative AI products
• Coordinate with application, cloud, data, and security teams to meet performance, reliability, and governance requirements

The Offer

Performance bonus eligibility

You will receive the following benefits

• Medical insurance options
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Paid time away from work
• 401(k) plan with company matching when applicable

This opportunity follows a hybrid work model in Providence, Rhode Island.

Applicants must have unrestricted authorization to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer.