AI Engineer (contract)

Location: 550 S Tryon St Charlotte, NC | Duration: 12 months | Work Engagement: W2 | Work Schedule: hybrid

About the role

We are seeking an experienced AI Engineer to design, develop, and deploy AI agents that automate business processes, enhance decision-making, and improve operational efficiency across collateral and lending workflows. The ideal candidate has practical experience building agentic AI solutions, integrating AI into enterprise systems, and delivering production-ready applications in a regulated environment. Banking or financial services experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI agents and multi-step agentic workflows.
• Develop retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions using enterprise knowledge sources.
• Integrate AI agents with internal applications, databases, and APIs.
• Monitor and improve agent accuracy, reliability, and performance.
• Build production-grade applications using large language models.
• Develop reusable prompts, workflows, and AI components.
• Collaborate with business and technology teams to identify and implement AI use cases.
• Support deployment, testing, and operationalization of AI solutions.
• Ensure AI solutions comply with security, privacy, and governance requirements.
• Implement monitoring, traceability, and responsible AI controls.
• Participate in model governance and validation activities.

Qualifications

• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or related technical disciplines.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing Generative AI solutions.
• Proven experience designing, building, and deploying AI agents or agentic workflows.
• Strong Python development experience.
• Strong SQL and data querying skills.
• Experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs) and related AI technologies.
• Experience building APIs and integrating enterprise applications and data sources.
• Experience with source control tools such as Git and modern software development practices.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and solution-design capabilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Banking, Commercial Lending, Financial Services, or Collateral Management experience. (preferred)
• Experience with agent frameworks such as: LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Similar agentic AI platforms.
• Experience designing and implementing RAG architectures.
• Knowledge of data governance, metadata management, and data quality frameworks.
• Exposure to semantic technologies, including: Ontologies, Knowledge Graphs, RDF, OWL.
• Experience supporting AI solutions in highly regulated environments.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Life insurance
• 401K
• Voluntary Benefits