66degrees · 2 weeks ago
Senior AI Engineer, Contract To Hire
United States
Contract
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years exp66degrees is an end-to-end AI transformation partner that guides enterprises from complex business challenges to clear, quantifiable outcomes. We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer who is passionate about building production-ready AI applications and focused on designing, developing, and deploying AI solutions that solve meaningful business and clinical problems.
Enterprise SoftwareCloud ComputingBig DataBusiness Information SystemsCloud Data ServicesCloud InfrastructureData Management
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain production-grade Generative AI, Agentic AI, and machine learning applications
Develop evaluation and testing approaches to measure model performance, identify regressions, and improve solution quality
Apply LLMs, multimodal models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), structured extraction, and tool calling to solve real-world healthcare workflows
Partner with Engineering, Product, Data, and Operations teams to integrate AI capabilities into client’s systems
Improve the reliability, observability, guardrails, and monitoring of production AI applications
Stay current with advancements in AI technologies and apply them pragmatically to deliver business value
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree – Required
5+ years of software engineering, applied AI, machine learning, or related technical experience, including at least 1 year of recent experience designing and delivering production-grade Generative AI solutions
Hands-on experience with modern AI systems, including LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agents, structured extraction, classification, or workflow automation
Proficiency in Python, with experience building cloud-native applications on AWS or GCP and working with relational and/or NoSQL databases
Practical experience with prompt engineering, tool calling, retrieval, model selection, context management, and AI application debugging
Experience evaluating AI system quality using metrics, test datasets, human review, and error analysis
Strong software engineering fundamentals, including system design, testing, scalability, and maintainability
Hands-on experience building retrieval-augmented AI applications using vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search
Preferred
Master's degree
Experience working in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or another regulated industry
Familiarity with AI evaluation, prompt optimization, guardrails, or human-in-the-loop workflows
Company
66degrees
66degrees is a leading google cloud premier partner that specializes in business consulting and services.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Ben Kessler
CEO & Board Member
Alex Voorhees
SVP Cloud and Software Engineering
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