Senior AI Engineer

Job Title: Senior AI Engineer

Location: New York City, NY

Duration: 6 Months Extension

Bill Rate: $87/hour

Job Type: C2C/1099 Contract

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Work Authorization:

• USC
• GC
• H-1B
• OPT-EAD
• GC-EAD

Job Description:

As part of the Video platforms and Development team, Senior Staff AI
Engineers are responsible for the design and maintenance of AI
Engineering initiatives. This includes internal workflows, new
technology initiatives, and consumer-facing systems. The successful
candidate will work closely with clients (users) to complete the
analysis and design of systems and follow the implementation to
completion. Senior Staff AI Engineers expected to lead other AI
Engineers and develop standards and best practices across the AI
Engineering landscape.


Responsibilities

Provides, guides and uses professional concepts in developing
resolution to critical issues.
Train and fine-tune models using LoRA and other parameter-efficient
techniques
Design, train, and evaluate multimodal models from scratch
Apply reinforcement learning techniques to model development and
optimization
Experience with audio/speech ML tasks such as speaker diarization
and speaker identification
Deploy, debug, and maintain distributed systems in cloud
environments
Optimize inference pipelines using tools and techniques such as
TensorRT, quantization, and pruning
Monitor and maintain models in production, including handling data
drift and system failures
Perform data gathering, cleaning, and curation to build high-quality
training and evaluation datasets
Comfortable working with a gated, continuous deployment workflow
that requires unit, component, and integration tests

Applies extensive knowledge of theories, practices and design
matters.
Works on issues that impact program success or addresses future
concepts and products. Implementation of solutions requires a
longer-term view which impacts strategic goals and objectives spanning
several functions.
Exercise a wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to
critical assignments.
Knowledge of media management strategies and distribution workflows
Work closely with Product and Operations to design and optimize
workflows
Apply broad expertise and knowledge in highly specialized fields or
several related disciplines
Contributes to development of company objectives across and
principles to achieve goals
Work on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations
or data requires an evaluation of intangibles

Equal opportunity Employer : We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Salary : $80 - $90