Senior Network Automation & AI Engineer

BlackCube Labs; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 88,000 - 98,000; Full time

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Job summary

Genesis10 is seeking a Senior Network Automation Engineer for a hybrid contract-to-hire role in Jersey City, NJ (also supported in Charlotte, NC and Chandler, AZ). The role focuses on building automation, AI, and ML-enabled solutions to improve network event handling, self-healing capabilities, and automated diagnostics across enterprise networks.

The ideal candidate will design backend services in Python/Django, work with Redis, and collaborate with Network Operations, Monitoring, and Data

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 8–12 years of experience in network engineering, automation, telemetry, data engineering, or applied analytics
• Demonstrated experience delivering AI/ML-enabled solutions into production
• Strong software development experience in Python, including REST APIs, message queues, or workflow engines
• Experience building backend services using Django or similar frameworks
• Hands-on experience using Redis or equivalent in-memory data stores
• Solid understanding of enterprise network operations (routing, switching, wireless, SD-WAN)
• Strong understanding of supervised and unsupervised machine learning, time-series analysis, anomaly detection, and forecasting
• Hands-on experience with Python data and ML libraries such as pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, and PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Experience developing and consuming generative AI solutions, including prompt engineering, embeddings, and vector search
• Experience with AI/ML development tooling such as Jupyter, MLflow, containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of responsible AI, secure AI engineering, data privacy, and model governance

Responsibilities

• Design and develop network automation services for event correlation, intelligent troubleshooting, and automated remediation
• Build automation that supports self-healing use cases, such as automated checks, safe remediation actions, and guided recovery steps
• Develop backend automation services using Python and Django, with supporting data stores (e.g., Redis)
• Integrate automation services with monitoring, telemetry, and alerting systems
• Partner with Network Operations teams to identify repeatable operational patterns suitable for automation
• Ensure automation workflows include guardrails, validation, and rollback logic for safe use in production
• Design and productionize machine learning solutions for anomaly detection, event correlation, and root-cause analysis
• Engineer and curate network telemetry datasets for model-ready transformation
• Develop AI-assisted troubleshooting capabilities using large language models and retrieval-augmented generation
• Build and maintain MLOps pipelines for experiment tracking, model validation, deployment, and monitoring
• Implement responsible AI controls covering explainability, privacy, security, and auditability

Job description

Genesis10 is seeking a Senior Network Automation Engineer for a hybrid contract-to-hire role in Jersey City, NJ (also supported in Charlotte, NC and Chandler, AZ). The role focuses on building automation, AI, and ML-enabled solutions to improve network event handling, self-healing capabilities, and automated diagnostics across enterprise networks.

The ideal candidate will design backend services in Python/Django, work with Redis, and collaborate with Network Operations, Monitoring, and Data