The work Generative AI Engineers build production applications around foundation models and large language models. They turn model capabilities into tools for search, drafting, summarization ...
The work Generative AI Engineers build production applications around foundation models and large language models. They turn model capabilities into tools for search, drafting, summarization ...
The work Generative AI Engineers build production applications around foundation models and large language models. They turn model capabilities into tools for search, drafting, summarization ...
The work Generative AI Engineers build production applications around foundation models and large language models. They turn model capabilities into tools for search, drafting, summarization ...
Senior AI Engineer - Generative AI / RAG
Chantilly, VA · On-site
$57 - $73.75/hr
We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer with strong expertise in Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to build enterprise AI knowledge platforms and ...
Senior AI Engineer - Generative AI / RAG
Chantilly, VA · On-site
$57 - $73.75/hr
We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer with strong expertise in Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to build enterprise AI knowledge platforms and ...
The Generative and Agentic AI Engineering Department works across the full range of US Government agencies to develop, engineer, and deploy advanced AI capabilities that address complex mission needs ...
The Generative and Agentic AI Engineering Department works across the full range of US Government agencies to develop, engineer, and deploy advanced AI capabilities that address complex mission needs ...
The Generative and Agentic AI Engineering Department works across the full range of US Government agencies to develop, engineer, and deploy advanced AI capabilities that address complex mission needs ...
The Generative and Agentic AI Engineering Department works across the full range of US Government agencies to develop, engineer, and deploy advanced AI capabilities that address complex mission needs ...
Generative AI Engineer (Clearance Required)
Arlington, VA · On-site
$60.75 - $83/hr
... engineering strategies, guardrails, and model evaluation techniques. Requirements * Active Top Secret Clearance * 5+ years of software development experience. * 2+ years developing Generative AI or ...
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Generative AI Engineer (Clearance Required)
Arlington, VA · On-site
$60.75 - $83/hr
... engineering strategies, guardrails, and model evaluation techniques. Requirements * Active Top Secret Clearance * 5+ years of software development experience. * 2+ years developing Generative AI or ...
Generative AI Engineer (Clearance Required)
Arlington, VA · On-site
$60.75 - $83/hr
... engineering strategies, guardrails, and model evaluation techniques. Requirements * Active Top Secret Clearance * 5+ years of software development experience. * 2+ years developing Generative AI or ...
Generative AI Engineer (Clearance Required)
Arlington, VA · On-site
$60.75 - $83/hr
... engineering strategies, guardrails, and model evaluation techniques. Requirements * Active Top Secret Clearance * 5+ years of software development experience. * 2+ years developing Generative AI or ...
Generative AI Engineer (Clearance Required)
Arlington, VA · On-site
$60.75 - $83/hr
... engineering strategies, guardrails, and model evaluation techniques. Requirements * Active Top Secret Clearance * 5+ years of software development experience. * 2+ years developing Generative AI or ...
Generative AI Engineer (Clearance Required)
Arlington, VA · On-site
$60.75 - $83/hr
... engineering strategies, guardrails, and model evaluation techniques. Requirements * Active Top Secret Clearance * 5+ years of software development experience. * 2+ years developing Generative AI or ...
AI engineer
Reston, VA · On-site
The AI Engineer will work closely with data scientists, software engineers, business stakeholders ... Design and develop Generative AI applications using Large Language Models. Build Retrieval ...
AI engineer
Reston, VA · On-site
The AI Engineer will work closely with data scientists, software engineers, business stakeholders ... Design and develop Generative AI applications using Large Language Models. Build Retrieval ...
AI Engineer
Reston, VA · On-site
The AI Engineer will work closely with data scientists, software engineers, business stakeholders ... Design and develop Generative AI applications using Large Language Models. * Build Retrieval ...
AI Engineer
Reston, VA · On-site
The AI Engineer will work closely with data scientists, software engineers, business stakeholders ... Design and develop Generative AI applications using Large Language Models. * Build Retrieval ...
AWS AI Engineer
Herndon, VA · On-site
Onsite About the Role We are seeking a highly skilled AWS AI Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Kubernetes, EKS, and Generative AI systems. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in ...
AWS AI Engineer
Herndon, VA · On-site
Onsite About the Role We are seeking a highly skilled AWS AI Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Kubernetes, EKS, and Generative AI systems. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in ...
Lead Generative AI Engineer with Security Clearance
Annapolis Junction, MD · On-site
$112K - $148K/yr
The Generative and Agentic AI Engineering Department works across the full range of US Government agencies to develop, engineer, and deploy advanced AI capabilities that address complex mission needs ...
Lead Generative AI Engineer with Security Clearance
Annapolis Junction, MD · On-site
$112K - $148K/yr
The Generative and Agentic AI Engineering Department works across the full range of US Government agencies to develop, engineer, and deploy advanced AI capabilities that address complex mission needs ...
Lead Generative AI Engineer with Security Clearance
Fairfax, VA · On-site
$104K - $138K/yr
The Generative and Agentic AI Engineering Department works across the full range of US Government agencies to develop, engineer, and deploy advanced AI capabilities that address complex mission needs ...
Lead Generative AI Engineer with Security Clearance
Fairfax, VA · On-site
$104K - $138K/yr
The Generative and Agentic AI Engineering Department works across the full range of US Government agencies to develop, engineer, and deploy advanced AI capabilities that address complex mission needs ...
Senior AI Engineer - Generative AI & Cloud Solutions-Hybrid
Washington, DC · On-site
$92K - $110K/yr
The AI Engineer will play a critical role in developing and implementing AI-powered solutions, including generative AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini, to support various initiatives within the ...
Senior AI Engineer - Generative AI & Cloud Solutions-Hybrid
Washington, DC · On-site
$92K - $110K/yr
The AI Engineer will play a critical role in developing and implementing AI-powered solutions, including generative AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini, to support various initiatives within the ...
Generative AI Cloud Operations Engineer - Evinova Location: Gaithersburg, MD At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious ...
Generative AI Cloud Operations Engineer - Evinova Location: Gaithersburg, MD At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious ...
Generative AI Cloud Operations Engineer - Evinova Location: Gaithersburg, MD At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious ...
Generative AI Cloud Operations Engineer - Evinova Location: Gaithersburg, MD At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious ...
Generative AI Cloud Operations Engineer - Evinova Location: Gaithersburg, MD At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious ...
Generative AI Cloud Operations Engineer - Evinova Location: Gaithersburg, MD At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious ...
Senior AI/ML Engineer
Herndon, VA · On-site +1
$107K - $147K/yr
Experience with generative AI models and frameworks (LLMs, RAG architectures, prompt engineering, model fne-tuning) * Hands-on exp with OCR, ICR and OMR technologies is a must * Good programming ...
Senior AI/ML Engineer
Herndon, VA · On-site +1
$107K - $147K/yr
Experience with generative AI models and frameworks (LLMs, RAG architectures, prompt engineering, model fne-tuning) * Hands-on exp with OCR, ICR and OMR technologies is a must * Good programming ...
Senior AI/ML Engineer
Herndon, VA · On-site
$140 - $190/hr
Experience with generative AI models and frameworks (LLMs, RAG architectures, prompt engineering, model fne‑tuning) * Hands‑on exp with OCR, ICR and OMR technologies is a must * Good programming ...
Senior AI/ML Engineer
Herndon, VA · On-site
$140 - $190/hr
Experience with generative AI models and frameworks (LLMs, RAG architectures, prompt engineering, model fne‑tuning) * Hands‑on exp with OCR, ICR and OMR technologies is a must * Good programming ...
Senior AI/ML Engineer
Herndon, VA · On-site
$107K - $147K/yr
Experience with generative AI models and frameworks (LLMs, RAG architectures, prompt engineering, model fne-tuning) * Hands-on exp with OCR, ICR and OMR technologies is a must * Good programming ...
Senior AI/ML Engineer
Herndon, VA · On-site
$107K - $147K/yr
Experience with generative AI models and frameworks (LLMs, RAG architectures, prompt engineering, model fne-tuning) * Hands-on exp with OCR, ICR and OMR technologies is a must * Good programming ...
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What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a generative AI engineer?
To thrive as a Generative AI Engineer, you need a deep understanding of machine learning, deep learning architectures (such as GANs and transformers), and proficiency in programming languages like Python, along with a degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field. Familiarity with frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and relevant cloud platforms, as well as certifications in AI or ML, are highly valuable. Strong problem-solving skills, creativity, and effective communication help engineers collaborate and innovate within diverse, multidisciplinary teams. These skills are critical for developing advanced AI models, driving continuous improvement, and successfully translating complex research into practical applications.
What does a generative AI engineer do?
As a Generative AI Engineer, your typical responsibilities involve designing, developing, and optimizing generative models for tasks such as image synthesis, natural language generation, or data augmentation. You will often collaborate closely with data scientists, researchers, and product teams to translate business or research goals into scalable AI solutions. Day-to-day work may include experimenting with different neural network architectures, optimizing model performance, and deploying models to production environments. Many roles also offer opportunities to contribute to publications or open-source projects, and there is strong potential for career growth into lead engineering or research positions as you gain experience.
What is a generative AI engineer?
A Generative AI Engineer is a specialized software engineer who designs, develops, and optimizes AI models that generate content such as text, images, audio, or video. They work with deep learning frameworks, train large-scale models, and fine-tune pre-trained architectures to improve performance. Their role involves data preprocessing, model deployment, and continuous optimization to enhance AI-generated outputs. Generative AI Engineers typically collaborate with data scientists, researchers, and product teams to integrate AI solutions into applications and services.

Full-time
Posted 6 days ago
Job description
Generative AI Engineers build production applications around foundation models and large language models. They turn model capabilities into tools for search, drafting, summarization, information extraction, multimodal work, and guided action, with the controls and evidence needed to understand how those tools behave.
The role concentrates on application and context engineering. Generative AI Engineers connect models to authoritative knowledge, tools, and workflows; design prompts and structured outputs; evaluate quality, grounding, safety, security, latency, and cost; and monitor the application after release. They treat fluent output as something to test, not proof that the system is correct.
What you'll build
• Grounded assistants and knowledge applications with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), hybrid or vector search, citations, metadata filtering, and source-level access controls.
• Drafting, summarization, classification, extraction, and transformation services exposed through user interfaces or APIs.
• Agents and multistep workflows with defined tool schemas, constrained permissions, approval gates, memory boundaries, replay, and exception handling.
• Evaluation systems with curated test cases, task-specific rubrics, retrieval measures, grounding checks, safety and security tests, and regression thresholds.
• Operational pipelines for versioning prompts and configurations, comparing models, tracing execution, monitoring quality and cost, collecting feedback, and responding to incidents.
Who you are
You are an application engineer who can work with fast-moving model capabilities without chasing every new release. You choose architectures by evidence, make uncertainty visible, and separate a convincing demonstration from a dependable service.
You think in complete workflows: sources, context, models, tools, permissions, people, and failure paths. You collaborate with domain experts, data and software engineers, security and privacy specialists, and accountable owners to decide where generation helps and where deterministic methods or human judgment should remain in control.
What you bring
• A strong application-engineering foundation, including programming, APIs, testing, version control, service integration, and production debugging.
• Practical experience with foundation-model integration, prompt and context design, structured outputs, model selection, and failure analysis.
• Working knowledge of retrieval systems, embeddings, search, knowledge stores, document ingestion, and data-access controls.
• Evaluation discipline across answer quality, retrieval relevance, grounding, safety, security, latency, cost, and user outcomes.
• The judgment to constrain tools and agents, design human-review paths, document limitations, and respond when production behavior changes.
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Requirements
What openings may require
An opening may emphasize enterprise search, document intelligence, multimodal applications, code generation, contact-center support, agent workflows, model adaptation, synthetic data, or evaluation and red-team engineering. Building or training a foundation model from scratch is not a universal requirement.
Specific openings may name a model provider, cloud platform, vector or search service, agent framework, observability stack, programming language, model-evaluation approach, content-safety service, or security and governance framework. OPEN Data Jobs will state which capabilities are required and which are preferred.
Benefits
Compensation, benefits, work location, and employment terms are set for each specific opening and will be stated with that opening