AI Engineer

Job Title: AI Engineer
Location: Newark, NJ (hybrid 3 days onsite)
Duration: 6 months
Payrange: $60-65/hr C2C

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate or the Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate will be given priority compared to other candidates. If the candidate is certified, request to include the respective Microsoft Certification link in the resume (without that certificate credentials are not accepted).

Role Overview
An Azure AI Foundry AI Engineer designs, builds, and deploys intelligent generative AI, agentic workflows, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) applications. This role requires coding with Python, orchestrating AI models, and adhering to responsible AI standards for enterprise scalability

Key Responsibilities
AI & Agent Development: Design autonomous or semi-autonomous AI agents and RAG pipelines using Azure AI Foundry (formerly Azure AI Studio).
Model Orchestration & Integration: Build and fine-tune large language models (LLMs) and integrate them with business applications, Copilot Studio, and data pipelines.
Testing & Evaluation: Implement performance and evaluation tooling (such as RAGAS or TruLens) to assess grounding accuracy, reduce hallucinations, and ensure model explainability.
Infrastructure Management: Develop scalable AI infrastructure and maintain reusable AI components in accordance with engineering best practices (version control, observability, CI/CD