Software Engineer - AI Concepts

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC in Charlotte, NC is seeking a Software Engineer for a long-term contract opportunity in a hybrid arrangement. This role supports a major financial services leader with a 12-month duration, offering competitive benefits and exposure to enterprise-grade cloud and AI initiatives.

You will work on multi-cloud environments (Azure, GCP, OpenShift), implement cloud-native development, and contribute to RAG and agentic workflows within generative AI, while maintaining

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, in either direct work or equivalent.
• Hands-on cloud-native development and cloud migration experience.
• Knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic workflows in generative AI.
• Experience with Python and potentially Java-to-Python transitions.
• Familiarity with SDLC and secure coding practices.

Responsibilities

• Consult on complex software engineering initiatives with broad impact.
• Analyze large-scale challenges requiring cross-factor evaluation.
• Contribute to compliant and secure delivery meeting requirements.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders to align priorities.
• Advance AI-driven business use cases using ADK and LangChain.
• Demonstrate strong MLOps and LLMOps foundations.
• Ensure architecture alignment and migration path planning.

Skills

5+ years software engineering

Cloud (Azure/GCP/OpenShift)

RAG / generative AI workflows

Python development

SDLC

Java to Python transition experience

Tools

Azure

GCP

OpenShift

Job description

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Software Engineer in Charlotte, NC (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially.

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.
• 2+ years of strong understanding of multi-cloud environments (Azure, GCP, OpenShift) and hands-on experience with cloud-native development and/or Cloud migration of applications
• 1+ years knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and/or agentic workflows in generative AI
• Applications
• 5-10 years of engineering experience (could be Java Engineers who transitioned to Python)
• 2+ years of Python engineering
• AI concepts (know frameworks for building agents, tech agnostic)
• SDLC

Desired Skills & Experience

• Proficiency in DevOps tools and practices, including infrastructure as code.
• Strong experience collaborating with product and business stakeholders to deliver valuable and user-centric solutions.
• Financial industry experience or familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to balance technical excellence with business priorities.
• Expertise in test-driven development methodologies.
• Cybersecurity and Risk Mindset: proactively identifies risks and integrates secure practices into development workflows.
• End-user experience focused: delivers intuitive, valuable solutions that align with employee needs.
• Mission-aligned: shares Client’s vision of transforming the employee experience through generative AI

What You Will Be Doing

• Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Software Engineering.
• Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale or longer-term Software Engineering challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors including intangibles or unprecedented factors.
• Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables.
• Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel.
• Accelerate business use cases via Agentic AI with focus on using frameworks like Agent Development Kit (ADK) and LangChain.
• Have strong background in MLOps and LLMOps.
• Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture and meeting non-functional requirements with each release.
• Engage with architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Client’s technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architectures to enable application migration paths to target architecture. For example, Mainframe to Java migration; or .Net and Java version migration.
• Identify and recommend opportunities for driving resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards.
• Conduct peer reviews to evaluate quality and solution alignment to technical direction.
• Interpret, develop, and ensure security, stability, and scalability within functions of technology with low to moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk.
• Influence technology requirements and priorities in the product roadmaps.