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Lead AI Engineer

Eliassen Group

Rockville, MD

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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$99–$110 Per Hour
SKILLS
Adobe Acrobat, Advertising, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Audiovisual, Benchmarking, Best Practices, Biology, Cloud Computing, Coding Standards, Computer Science, Consulting, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Dental Insurance, Distributed Computing, Finance, Financial Compliance, Genetics, HTML (HyperText Markup Language), Healthcare, Legal, Machine Learning, Maintain Compliance, Marketing, Mentoring, Metrics, Microsoft Windows Azure, Military, Modeling Languages, Multimedia, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Production Machining, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Regulations, Regulatory Compliance, Reliability Engineering, Risk Management, Risk Modeling, Software Engineering, Strategic Analysis, Strategic Planning, Systems Scalability, Team Player, Technical Strategy, Test Case, Use Cases, Yahoo!
LOCATION
Rockville, MD
POSTED
Today
Description:
Hybrid 3 days onsite / 2 days remote in Rockville, MD

Our client seeks a Lead AI Engineer to design and deliver an AI-powered compliance screening platform for regulated communications across text and multimedia. The role will architect multimodal ingestion, retrieval-augmented generation, and LLM-driven reasoning with robust explainability and auditability. The engineer will set technical strategy, establish evaluation and risk controls, and mentor a team while collaborating with compliance, legal, and product stakeholders. The work will advance reliable compliance intelligence for financial use cases.

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $99.00 to $110.00/hr. w2

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Responsibilities:
  • Design and implement end-to-end AI pipelines for document ingestion across PDFs, HTML, images, audio, and video.
  • Build multimodal extraction using OCR, layout parsing, and vision-language models.
  • Develop LLM-driven compliance reasoning and scalable RAG grounded in regulatory content.
  • Translate regulatory frameworks into machine-interpretable logic.
  • Create rule classifiers, risk scoring models, and violation detection workflows.
  • Evaluate LLMs for action-specific tasks and implement prompt engineering and tool usage.
  • Apply fine-tuning strategies, guardrails, and hallucination mitigation techniques.
  • Integrate multimodal models for charts, images, and disclosures.
  • Deliver explainable, regulator-ready outputs with evidence-backed decisions and linked text spans.
  • Ensure full audit trails for all AI decisions and outputs.
  • Define and track precision, recall, and false-negative metrics with human-in-the-loop reviews.
  • Conduct adversarial and edge-case testing to improve reliability.
  • Establish best practices for architecture, coding standards, and MLOps.
  • Collaborate with compliance, legal, and product teams.
  • Mentor engineers on AI and ML best practices.

Experience Requirements:
  • 8+ years in software engineering or machine learning with production AI/ML delivery.
  • Experience in regulated industries such as finance, legal, or healthcare.
  • Strong expertise in NLP and large language models.
  • Hands-on experience with retrieval-augmented generation.
  • Proficiency in model evaluation and benchmarking, including LLM-specific evaluation.
  • Familiarity with multimodal AI across text, image, and layout.
  • Proficiency in Python and LLM orchestration or agent frameworks such as LangChain or AWS Strands.
  • Experience with vector databases such as PG Vector or Pinecone.
  • Background in document processing pipelines, including OCR and PDF parsing.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure.
  • MLOps, CI/CD, model monitoring, and scalable distributed system design.
  • Experience with explainable AI and understanding of auditability and governance requirements.
  • Exposure to industry regulations and compliance frameworks (preferred).
  • Experience building legal or compliance-focused AI systems (preferred).
  • Familiarity with marketing or advertising review processes (preferred).
  • Experience analyzing structured and unstructured documents, including charts and disclosures (preferred).
  • Background in hybrid AI systems combining rules and machine learning (preferred).

Education Requirements:
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, or related field.
  • PhD preferred but not required.


Recruitment Transparency Notice



Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (, ) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group's use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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About the Company

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Eliassen Group

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company that provides business and IT services for our clients as they seek to transform and execute strategies that will drive exceptional outcomes. Leveraging over 30 years of success, we focus on professional services, talent solutions, and life sciences. Eliassen Group offers local community presence and deep networks. We are committed to positively impacting the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which we operate.

 

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

COMPANY SIZE
2,500 to 4,999 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
1989
WEBSITE
http://www.eliassen.com/

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