AI Engineer

Job Title: AI Engineer

Location: Washington, DC 20433 (Onsite)

Duration: 6+ Months Long Term

Client: Mindlance/World Bank

Pay rate: $35/hr on W2

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced *AI Engineer with strong expertise in Python, Agentic AI, LLMs, LangGraph, and Microsoft Azure*. The ideal candidate must have hands-on experience building, testing, deploying, and supporting production-grade AI applications, with a strong focus on clean, reliable, scalable, and maintainable code.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and deploy production-ready AI applications using Python.
• Build agentic AI workflows and LLM-powered applications using LangGraph and related frameworks.
• Develop RAG solutions involving document chunking, embeddings, retrieval, and evaluation.
• Integrate LLMs, AI services, MCP tools, and RESTful APIs into enterprise applications.
• Deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, and support AI applications in Microsoft Azure environments.

Required Skills:

• Strong hands-on Python development experience, including type annotations, OOP, and modular application design.
• Proven experience developing and deploying production-grade applications.
• Hands-on experience with Agentic AI, LLMs, LangGraph, and multi-agent workflows.
• Experience building RAG pipelines, including chunking, embeddings, retrieval, and evaluation.
• Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol), tool integration, and API development.
• Strong experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, and Microsoft Azure application deployment.
• Solid understanding of software engineering best practices, testing, debugging, and production support.