Engineer 5 - Contingent

Title: Sr. AI/ML Engineer Location: Charlotte, NC Duration:6 Months+ Mode: Hybrid Job Description: • Client is seeking a Senior Prompt Engineer to support enterprise AI initiatives by standardizing and optimizing prompt engineering practices across business units. • This contingent role is based on site in Charlotte, NC. The core competencies are: Understanding of LLM Behavior: • How large language models process tokens, context windows, and temperature settings. • Knowledge of prompt injection risks and mitigation strategies. Prompt Design & Optimization: • Techniques like few-shot prompting, chain-of-thought, role prompting, and zero-shot learning. • Ability to structure prompts for clarity, specificity, and adaptability. Natural Language Processing (NLP) Fundamentals: • Tokenization, embeddings, semantic similarity. • Understanding of text generation, summarization, and classification. Critical Thinking & Creativity: • Ability to break down complex tasks into smaller steps. • Crafting prompts that balance constraints and flexibility. Evaluation & Iteration: • Designing A/B tests for prompt performance. • Using metrics like BLEU, ROUGE, or human evaluation for quality. Ethics & Safety: • Awareness of bias, fairness, and responsible AI principles. • Techniques for avoiding harmful or sensitive outputs. Basic Programming Skills: • Python for automation and API integration. • Familiarity with JSON for structured outputs. Required Qualifications: • 3 plus years of experience in AI/ML, NLP, or related fields, with hands-on exposure to Generative AI systems. • 7 plus years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education. • Strong understanding of LLMs, prompt-response dynamics, and model limitations. • Proficiency with platforms like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex AI, or similar. • Excellent analytical and communication skills to bridge technical and non-technical teams. • Ability to document and standardize processes for scalability. Preferred Qualifications: • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Data Science, Linguistics, or related discipline. • Experience with advanced prompt techniques (e.g., chaining, RAG, context injection). • Familiarity with enterprise AI governance frameworks and risk mitigation strategies. • Prior experience in regulated industries such as finance or healthcare. In this contingent resource assignment, candidate may: • Consult as an expert to develop or influence initiatives and resources for highly complex business and technical needs across Engineering. • Consult on the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking. • Provide expertise to client senior leadership on innovative Engineering business solutions. • Strategically engage with client personnel. Note: PART OF THE PILOT PROGRAM • Duration: 6 months with potential to extend or convert • Location: Charlotte • 3 days a week in office • Interview process: 30 minutes teams call Pay Range: $100-105/hr The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by appliable state or localities where you reside or work.