What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Engineer (Applied AI / ML) position at Qvest US?
Who We Are
Qvest US is the global leader in technology and business consulting for the Media & Entertainment and Consumer Packaged Goods & Retail industries. We strategize, advise, design, develop and implement future-forward business & technology solutions. With expertise in digital media supply chain, data & analytics, IP & rights management, broadcast transformation, Salesforce and applied AI, our exceptionally talented teams partner with Fortune 1,000 companies to revolutionize markets and set new industry standards.
About The IDC
The IDC is our I nnovation and D evelopment C enter. We build custom software using modern technologies to solve complex business problems for our clients. We believe the best products and services are realized by knowledgeable, tight-knit teams aligned to a shared purpose and understanding. We're honored to be recognized by Fortune magazine and Great Place to Work as a Best Workplace in Texas!
Who We're Seeking
As a Senior Engineer, you enjoy solving problems and thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments. You are looking for a role where you can work on varied projects, and influence technologies and solutions for both Qvest internal and client external projects. You thrive in environments where you're able to demonstrate technical competency while working individually, closely with team members, or directly with our clients.
Specifically working in our Applied AI / ML practice, you are a self driven engineer who loves to identify and experiment with new approaches, technologies, or tools which will impact our projects or industry. Examples could include emergent architectural approaches, new cloud provider offerings, or productivity enhancers (new tooling, Chat-GPT, Copilots, or similar).
What You'll Do
We were founded on a culture of collaboration and inclusiveness, and this permeates each of our initiatives, both client-facing and internal. We offer a wide selection of benefits including medical, dental & vision, 401k matching and flexible vacation; we sponsor training to advance our teams’ skill sets and we prioritize our employees’ professional growth paths. Qvest US is currently 300 people strong and we’ve been recognized as a “Best Place to Work,” a “Great Place to Work,” “Fastest Growing,” and “A Jewel."
Equal Employment Opportunity
Qvest is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Qvest applies this stance to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including internships, at all levels of employment.
Qvest US is the global leader in technology and business consulting for the Media & Entertainment and Consumer Packaged Goods & Retail industries. We strategize, advise, design, develop and implement future-forward business & technology solutions. With expertise in digital media supply chain, data & analytics, IP & rights management, broadcast transformation, Salesforce and applied AI, our exceptionally talented teams partner with Fortune 1,000 companies to revolutionize markets and set new industry standards.
About The IDC
The IDC is our I nnovation and D evelopment C enter. We build custom software using modern technologies to solve complex business problems for our clients. We believe the best products and services are realized by knowledgeable, tight-knit teams aligned to a shared purpose and understanding. We're honored to be recognized by Fortune magazine and Great Place to Work as a Best Workplace in Texas!
Who We're Seeking
As a Senior Engineer, you enjoy solving problems and thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments. You are looking for a role where you can work on varied projects, and influence technologies and solutions for both Qvest internal and client external projects. You thrive in environments where you're able to demonstrate technical competency while working individually, closely with team members, or directly with our clients.
Specifically working in our Applied AI / ML practice, you are a self driven engineer who loves to identify and experiment with new approaches, technologies, or tools which will impact our projects or industry. Examples could include emergent architectural approaches, new cloud provider offerings, or productivity enhancers (new tooling, Chat-GPT, Copilots, or similar).
What You'll Do
- You will provide leadership within software teams; as a mentor, team-lead, trusted client-facing technologist and/or as a hands-on contributor
- You will impact all phases of our projects and all phases of the SDLC
- You will leverage your existing depth of knowledge to maximize your impact
- You will grow into new and/or adjacent technologies and domains to broaden your impact
- Present solutions to clients as well as Qvest team members
- Shape the kind of technologies that we are going to be using
- 4-6 years in software development, including working in teams
- Experience with agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban or XP
- Experience in ML / Applied AI tools and patterns including LLM, MLOps, RAG
- Experience using different models (OpenAI, ChatGPT, Claude, Amazon Bedrock, LLaMA etc..) and understanding applicability to purpose / use case balancing cost vs. functionality
- Experience developing copilots
- Experience developing RAG applications
- Experience with and around discussing enterprise deployments, knowing the landscape of enterprises, (their API’s, systems etc..) and the ability to communicate with client leadership in this area
- Experience with Vector Database and Embeddings
- Experience with Graph Databases
- Definition, utilization and implementation of CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with SOA, Microservices, or similar architectural patterns
- Experience constructing systems by utilizing a separation of concerns (good OOP, FP design, etc)
- Experience with enterprise application integration, including defining the integration architecture, integration data flows and interfaces, integration mechanisms (e.g., async vs. synchronous), middleware, etc.
- Experience with typical AuthN/AuthZ methods and products
- Experience managing data, including the selection of persistence product, design of database schema, constraints and transaction boundaries, read/write design trade-off decisions and how it relates to mutable vs. immutable data state
- Experience balancing feature development vs. technical debt accumulation in order to deliver business needs while also maintaining quality over time
We were founded on a culture of collaboration and inclusiveness, and this permeates each of our initiatives, both client-facing and internal. We offer a wide selection of benefits including medical, dental & vision, 401k matching and flexible vacation; we sponsor training to advance our teams’ skill sets and we prioritize our employees’ professional growth paths. Qvest US is currently 300 people strong and we’ve been recognized as a “Best Place to Work,” a “Great Place to Work,” “Fastest Growing,” and “A Jewel."
Equal Employment Opportunity
Qvest is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Qvest applies this stance to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including internships, at all levels of employment.