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AI/ML Engineer

Encora Inc.
Scottsdale, AZ Contractor
POSTED ON 4/14/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/6/2026
We are seeking an AI/ML Engineer – Agents to help build the core intelligence layer of our AI-powered MarTech and AdTech platform. This role will focus on designing, developing, and deploying agentic AI systems, LLM-powered applications, and real-time inference pipelines that drive intelligent automation, personalization, and decision-making at scale.

This is a high-impact, hands-on engineering role for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments and wants to help shape next-generation AI products from the ground up.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and deploy agentic AI systems using frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar.
  • Build and scale LLM/GenAI applications for MarTech and AdTech use cases, including content generation, campaign optimization, audience segmentation, personalization, and workflow automation.
  • Fine-tune and optimize LLMs/SLMs for domain-specific tasks such as classification, extraction, recommendation, and intent understanding.
  • Develop and manage training and inference pipelines for production-scale ML systems.
  • Build scalable infrastructure for real-time and batch inference, experimentation, and deployment.
  • Implement best practices for evaluation, A/B testing, model monitoring, and continuous improvement.
  • Partner closely with product, data, and engineering teams to turn prototypes and research into production-ready AI services.
  • Rapidly prototype and apply emerging research to practical product use cases.

Qualifications

  • 3 years of experience in AI/ML engineering, machine learning, or applied NLP roles.
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required; PhD preferred.
  • Hands-on experience with agent-based AI frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar.
  • Strong expertise in deep learning and natural language processing using frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Experience fine-tuning and deploying foundation models such as LLaMA, Mistral, or similar.
  • Strong experience with Hugging Face, LoRA, PEFT, and modern fine-tuning workflows.
  • Experience with RAG pipelines, vector databases, semantic search, and embedding optimization tools such as FAISS, Pinecone, or PGVector.
  • Experience deploying ML systems in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Strong software engineering skills in Python, APIs, microservices, and containerized environments such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Solid understanding of GPU optimization, distributed training, and inference performance tuning.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in MarTech, AdTech, personalization, targeting, or attribution systems.
  • Experience with real-time decisioning or ad-serving systems.
  • Contributions to open-source AI/LLM frameworks or published research.
  • Prior experience in a startup or high-growth environment.

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