Machine Learning / AI Contractor: 6-9 years (Advanced)

Apolis

Charlotte, NC

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$55–$58 Per Hour
SKILLS
Application Programming Interface (API), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Cognitive Science, Communication Skills, Computer Science, Consulting, Cross-Functional, Customer/Client Research, Decision Support, Environmental Compliance, Financial Services, Information Technology & Information Systems, Linguistics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Product Design, Product Engineering, Professional Services, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Quality Management, Quality Metrics, Risk Modeling, SQL (Structured Query Language), Software Development, Software Engineering, Team Building, Technical Leadership, Test Design, Test Tools, Use Cases, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), Wealth Management
LOCATION
Charlotte, NC
POSTED
10 days ago
GenAI Prompt Engineering
(6-9 years experience)
Charlotte, NC (hybrid)
Pay range - $55-58/hour

Additional Details for Role:
We are seeking a AI prompt engineer to join an innovative and high-impact team building AI capabilities within enterprise systems for a leading wealth management client. In this role, you will help design and optimize prompt-driven experiences that make AI assistants, automation workflows, and decision-support tools more effective, reliable, and scalable across the business. This is an opportunity to shape the next generation of enterprise AI in a highly visible environment, where innovation, rigor, and business value all matter. You’ll contribute to prompt design, testing, evaluation, optimization and governance while helping establish repeatable patterns for responsible AI use in a regulated financial services setting. The ideal candidate is curious, hands-on, and energized by solving real-world problems at the intersection of AI, enterprise technology, and wealth management

This role partners with product, engineering, UX, data, and domain teams to translate user needs into effective instructions, guardrails, and interaction patterns that drive high-quality model outputs. The position requires strong judgment, experimentation discipline, and a practical understanding of LLM behavior, context management, and evaluation.

Key Responsibilities
Design and refine prompts, prompt chains, and prompt templates for enterprise AI use cases
Develop instructions, examples, guardrails, and system messages to improve response quality and consistency
Test model behavior across scenarios, edge cases, and failure modes
Create and apply evaluation criteria for relevance, accuracy, tone, safety, and task completion
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to embed prompts into production workflows
Analyze user feedback, logs, and output quality to identify prompt improvements
Support retrieval-augmented generation workflows by optimizing context selection and prompt grounding
Establish prompt versioning, testing, documentation, and governance practices
Work with domain experts to encode business logic, policy requirements, and domain terminology

Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Information Systems, or related field
6+ years of experience in AI, NLP, conversational design, product writing, software engineering, or related discipline
Hands-on experience designing and testing prompts for LLM-based applications
Strong understanding of prompt patterns, context windows, hallucination risks, and model limitations
Experience with AI evaluation methods, experimentation, and quality measurement
Ability to communicate technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with RAG, vector databases, semantic search, or AI orchestration frameworks
Familiarity with Python, SQL, APIs, or workflow automation
Experience in large enterprise environments, consulting / professional services, regulated, or high-compliance environments
Knowledge of prompt testing tools, observability, or LLMOps practices
Background in UX writing, conversation design, or content strategy

Core Competencies
Precision in language and instruction design
Analytical thinking and experimentation
Cross-functional collaboration
Strong attention to quality and consistency
Comfort with ambiguity and rapidly changing AI capabilities
Practical problem solving with a bias toward measurable outcomes
 

About the Company

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Apolis

Since 1996, RJT has provided successful SAP, Oracle, and IT consulting solutions and staffing services to clients around the world. The new Apolis brings you the same personalized service fortified with a greater array of IT solutions, global expertise, and cost-management strategies.

We are a global IT consultancy that seamlessly integrates experts and leading-edge solutions into your organization so you can focus on what really matters.

COMPANY SIZE
500 to 999 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Paid Sick Days, Employee Referral Program, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans
WEBSITE
https://www.apolisrises.com/