Senior Python & GenAI Engineer: RAG & Platform Expert

BC Forward; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 101,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

BCforward seeks a Senior Python + Generative AI Engineer to join Bank of America Global Markets AI initiatives in Jersey City, NJ. The role focuses on building secure, scalable GenAI platforms and reusable tooling to support production-grade AI solutions.

The ideal candidate has strong Python experience, MLOps and RAG architecture expertise, plus API development with FastAPI, JWT, and CI/CD workflows in multi-repo environments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of object-oriented Python development with strong software engineering practices.
• Hands-on experience across the AI/ML and GenAI lifecycle, including MLOps, fine-tuning, and inference frameworks.
• Proficiency with RAG architectures and components such as chunking, embeddings, retrieval, reranking, and summarization.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reusable tools and frameworks for Generative AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
• Develop secure, scalable, and high-performance services that meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements.
• Implement RAG pipelines including chunking, embeddings, retrieval, reranking, and summarization.
• Build API-based applications with FastAPI, JWT integration, and API Gateway patterns.
• Engineer inference platforms using open-source toolsets, including AI gateway, policy store, and observability for RAG and related use cases.
• Develop utilities, automation frameworks, and shared data science platforms for AI/ML and GenAI teams.
• Collaborate in large teams using multi-repo workflows, IDE-based development, CI/CD, and continuous testing.
• Drive process adherence, quality, and experimentation across the development lifecycle.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and platform issues with root-cause analysis.

Skills

Python

MLOps

RAG pipelines

API Development

FastAPI

JWT

API Gateway

MongoDB

Redis

Angular

React

CI/CD

Git

Jenkins

SonarQube

pytest

Artifactory

Ansible

VS Code

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

VS Code

Job description

BCforward seeks a Senior Python + Generative AI Engineer to join Bank of America Global Markets AI initiatives in Jersey City, NJ. The role focuses on building secure, scalable GenAI platforms and reusable tooling to support production-grade AI solutions.

The ideal candidate has strong Python experience, MLOps and RAG architecture expertise, plus API development with FastAPI, JWT, and CI/CD workflows in multi-repo environments.