Job Title: Junior AI Engineer
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Contract to hire role
Description:
Junior AI Engineer
Position Description
Ready to take your career to the next level? CGI is seeking a Junior AI Engineer to design, build, and scale AI-powered product features from concept to production.
In this role, you will work as a consultant supporting enterprise clients, solving complex business and technical challenges. You’ll collaborate with a high-performing team, contribute to impactful client solutions, and gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI and cloud-native technologies.
This position is based onsite at a client location in the Salt Lake City, UT area!
Your future duties and responsibilities
How you'll make an impact
• Design and develop AI-driven product features using ML, GenAI, and LLMs
• Build and deploy scalable AI systems using cloud-native architectures
• Implement RAG pipelines, vector databases, and conversational AI systems
• Develop RESTful APIs and microservices (e.g., FastAPI) for model serving
• Containerize and orchestrate applications using Docker and Kubernetes
• Ensure system reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business teams
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
What you'll bring
• Up to 2 years of experience in engineering or related roles
• Familiarity with AI agents and agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph)
• Understanding of agent design patterns and evaluation techniques
• Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Hands-on experience with:
o AI/ML and Generative AI
o Large Language Models (LLMs) and prompt engineering
o RAG architectures and vector databases
o MLOps practices
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of microservices architecture and API development
• Knowledge of serverless design, 12-factor apps, autoscaling, and high availability
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills
Every day, System One focuses on services and solutions that require a high degree of specialization, in-demand technical skills, and large-scale operational expertise. We are essential partners to those on the front lines of our nation’s most critical infrastructure, technology, and life sciences initiatives.
Founded more than 40 years ago as a staffing partner to the engineering industry, today System One is a diversified organization operating in over 50 locations and putting more than 9,000 people to work in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.