Job Description
Position : Senior AI Engineer
Location : Charlotte, NC (hybrid)
Duration : Long Term Contract
MOI : Video
Must have:
- Senior AI Engineer with strong Python and 5+ years building AI/ML solutions, including architecture ownership and mentoring.
- Deep NLP and LLM expertise covering text classification, clustering, intent detection, prompt engineering, RAG, and LLM evaluation.
- Hands-on voice and data experience including IVR or conversational AI systems, large-scale SQL analysis, and production deployment practices
Description
Client’s customer is looking for a senior AI Engineer to lead IVR and Conversational AI initiatives, designing scalable LLM and NLP solutions for high-volume customer interactions. This role will drive architecture, best practices, and innovation across voice AI systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and develop AI-driven IVR and conversational systems using Python
- Build NLP models for text classification and clustering to support intent detection and call routing
- Perform data analysis using SQL on large-scale IVR and interaction datasets
- Design and deploy LLM workflows (prompt engineering, RAG, evaluation) for voice and chat use cases
- Lead development of agentic AI workflows for multi-step customer interactions
- Establish LLMOps best practices, including monitoring, evaluation, and lifecycle management
- Partner with IVR platform, speech engineering, and product teams
- Mentor offshore and junior AI engineers
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of experience in AI / ML
- Very strong proficiency in Python
- Proven expertise in NLP, including:
- Text classification
- Clustering
- Strong experience in data analysis using SQL
- Hands-on experience with LLMs:
- Prompt engineering
- Evaluation frameworks
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Good to Have
- Experience with Agentic AI and multi-agent orchestration
- Experience with LLMOps / MLOps in production environments
- Familiarity with IVR platforms and speech technologies (ASR, NLU, TTS)
Libraries & Tools
- Python / ML: NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, XGBoost
- NLP: spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers, NLTK, Sentence-Transformers
- LLM Frameworks: LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI SDK
- Agentic AI (Good to Have): LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI
- Data & SQL: Oracle, MySQL, SQLAlchemy
- Vector Databases: FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant
- LLMOps / MLOps (Good to Have): MLflow, Weights & Biases, BentoML, Airflow
Thanks & Regards
Gunjan Sharma
Sr. Technical Recruiter
Email: Gunjan@kanakits.com
Kanak IT is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to citizenship, immigration status, race, gender, disability, or any other protected category.