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Artificial Intelligence Engineer

firstPRO US
Boston, MA Contractor
POSTED ON 5/22/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/20/2026

firstPRO is now accepting resumes for a AI Engineer in Boston, MA. This is a 6 month contract and onsite 4 days per week. Local candidates only.


Seeking a highly skilled AI Engineer to design and build Generative and Agentic AI systems that transform how our company operates and serves customers. This role focuses on developing AI applications powered by large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and Agentic AI across the enterprise for internal and customer facing use cases.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with a modern AI/ML stack, including a profound Python experience, including AI relevant packages and tools, LLM architectures and frameworks, RAG, MCP, prompt engineering, use of AI tools, budling teams of AI agents, and production-grade AI systems design and development.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and deploy scalable LLM-powered applications, solutions, and digital products for customer support, business use cases, and internal productivity.
  • Develop AI agents, Agentic Platforms, and Agentic AI systems capable of reasoning, planning, and executing multi-step workflows.
  • Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and pipelines to leverage proprietary data, and internal knowledge bases.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, or related field.
  • 2 years of software engineering experience, including work with machine learning (ML) or AI systems.
  • Hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications in production environments.

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