Qvest US · 1 day ago
Staff Engineer (Applied AI / ML)
Austin, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$80K/yr - $400K/yr
8+ years expQvest US is the global leader in technology and business consulting for the Media & Entertainment and Consumer Packaged Goods & Retail industries. As a Staff Engineer in the Applied AI / ML practice, you will mentor team members, influence engineering practices, and lead projects by proposing technologies and defining team structures.
Information Technology & Services
Responsibilities
As a mentor and an engineering leader in the Applied AI / ML practice, you will help grow the careers of other team members, have the opportunity to participate in the hiring process, participate in the annual review cycle, and shape and contribute to the engineering culture as a place to learn and grow
As a technology Leader, you’ll work directly with Qvest leadership to impact projects, teams and the Qvest organization by creating, shaping, proposing and presenting engineering practices, architectures, and tech stacks. You will influence business development through your expertise by creating content and contributing to proposals. You will extract reusable components, patterns, concepts and lessons learned to be leveraged across the organization
As a project leader, you’ll help propose technologies to be used on specific projects, and define the shape of the team to build them. As a part of that team, you’ll help the team gather, translate and refine business requirements into deployable systems, extracting and leveraging repeatable design strategies, and creating reference implementations. You will lead by example through the code you contribute, the continuous improvement you foster, and the quality of documentation, architecture, code, and tests you and your teams will deliver
Qualification
Required
8-12+ years in software development, including working in teams
Experience with agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban or XP
Expertise in ML / Applied AI tools and patterns including LLM, MLOps, RAG
Experience using different models (OpenAI, ChatGPT, Claude, Amazon Bedrock, LLaMA etc..) and understanding applicability to purpose / use case balancing cost vs. functionality
Experience developing copilots
Experience developing RAG applications
Experience with and around discussing enterprise deployments, knowing the landscape of enterprises, (their API's, systems etc..) and the ability to communicate with client leadership in this area
Experience with Vector Database and Embeddings
Experience with Graph Databases
Definition, utilization and implementation of CI/CD pipelines
Familiarity with SOA, Microservices, or similar architectural patterns
Experience constructing systems by utilizing a separation of concerns (good OOP, FP design, etc)
Experience with enterprise application integration, including defining the integration architecture, integration data flows and interfaces, integration mechanisms (e.g., async vs. synchronous), middleware, etc
Experience with typical AuthN/AuthZ methods and products
Experience managing data, including the selection of persistence product, design of database schema, constraints and transaction boundaries, read/write design trade-off decisions and how it relates to mutable vs. immutable data state
Experience balancing feature development vs. technical debt accumulation in order to deliver business needs while also maintaining quality over time
Bachelor's degree in engineering, information systems, computer science, business administration, or other related fields
Benefits
Medical, dental & vision
401k matching
Flexible vacation
Sponsor training to advance our teams’ skill sets
Company
Qvest US
Qvest is a global leader in media-focused practices and services.
201-500 employees
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