Senior Engineer, Data and AI

Posted Yesterday
Hiring Remotely in Maryland, USA
Remote
Senior level
HR Tech • Professional Services • Security
The Role
Design and build data infrastructure and AI/ML systems—extracting, cleaning, moving, and storing data; develop, deploy, and monitor ML and LLM-based products; build APIs; collaborate with stakeholders and manage projects to meet business needs.
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  • Job Description Summary
    This position has a wide range of responsibilities that includes both data and AI engineering. They will be responsible for designing and implementing data infrastructure to extract, clean, move and store data. They will need the ability to independently develop AI/ML systems and products for both internal and external use. They will communicate with business stakeholders to understand their needs and develop solutions to address them.
  • Job Description

    Scope of Position
    This position has a wide range of responsibilities that includes both data and AI engineering. They will be responsible for designing and implementing data infrastructure to extract, clean, move and store data. They will need the ability to independently develop AI/ML systems and products for both internal and external use. They will communicate with business stakeholders to understand their needs and develop solutions to address them.

    Essential Job Duties

    • Communication: Strong communication skills to learn and collaborate with stakeholders across the organization.

    • Independent Problem-Solving: Strong, independent analytical and problem-solving abilities, and the internal drive to execute projects to completion.

    • Project Management: Ability to manage projects, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines.

    • Adaptability: Willingness to learn and adapt to changing business needs, requirements, and emerging technologies.

    AI/ML Engineering

    • Machine Learning & AI Systems: Strong Python skills for building, training, and deploying both traditional ML models and modern AI applications — including LLM-based systems, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows. Proficiency in feature extraction/transformation and model selection, training, and evaluation.

    • GenAI Tooling: Experience with LangChain and LangGraph for building agentic/AI workflows, and working with LLM APIs such as the Claude and OpenAI SDKs. Experience self-hosting and serving models with vLLM is a plus.

    • API Development: Proficiency building and serving APIs with FastAPI, using Pydantic for data validation and schema enforcement.

    • Statistical & Mathematical Rigor: Solid grounding in statistical methods and experimental design (e.g., hypothesis testing, regression, causal inference) to validate models and ensure sound decision-making.

    • MLOps/LLMOps: Experience deploying, monitoring, and maintaining models and AI systems in production, using tools such as MLflow (experiment tracking) and LangSmith/LangFuse (LLM tracing and evaluation).

    Data Engineering

    • Data Modeling: Discover and characterize source data systems, understand and model the underlying business concepts, and build data models that organize data to meet operational and reporting needs.

    • Database Development & Optimization: Proficiency with databases (T-SQL, NoSQL) — writing and optimizing tables, queries, and indexes for scalability, reliability, and performance.

    • ETL/ELT Pipelines: Design and implement pipelines to move and transform data between systems.

    • Big Data / Data Warehousing: Experience with data warehousing concepts and platforms like Databricks; familiarity with Spark and Python for large-scale data processing.

    • Cloud Platforms: Knowledge of cloud services, particularly Azure, for scalable data storage and processing.

    • Data Governance & Security: Awareness of data quality, privacy, security, and compliance best practices.

    Education & Qualification Requirements

    • Degree in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or a similar field; Master's degree a plus.

    • 3–5 years of experience as a data engineer, ML engineer, AI engineer, AI infrastructure engineer, or in a similar role.

Skills Required

  • Degree in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or similar
  • Master's degree
  • 3-5 years experience as a data engineer, ML engineer, AI engineer, or similar
  • Strong Python skills for building, training, and deploying ML/AI systems
  • Experience building/training/deploying ML models including LLM-based systems, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows
  • Experience with LangChain and LangGraph
  • Experience with Claude and OpenAI SDKs
  • Experience self-hosting and serving models with vLLM
  • Proficiency building and serving APIs with FastAPI using Pydantic
  • Solid grounding in statistical methods and experimental design (hypothesis testing, regression, causal inference)
  • Experience deploying, monitoring, and maintaining models in production using MLflow and LLM tracing tools
  • Experience with LangSmith or LangFuse (LLM tracing/evaluation)
  • Data modeling skills and ability to discover and characterize source data systems
  • Proficiency with databases (T-SQL, NoSQL) including query and index optimization
  • Design and implement ETL/ELT pipelines
  • Experience with data warehousing concepts and platforms like Databricks; familiarity with Spark and Python for large-scale processing
  • Knowledge of cloud services, particularly Azure
  • Awareness of data governance, privacy, security, and compliance best practices
  • Strong communication, independent problem-solving, and project management skills
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The Company
787 Employees
Year Founded: 1977

What We Do

Cisive is a global provider of compliance-driven human capital and risk management solutions. The company delivers employee onboarding and pre-employment background screening, employment intelligence, and industry-specific data services to large enterprises, particularly in regulated and risk-sensitive sectors. Its offerings support clients in healthcare, financial services, transportation, telecommunications, utilities, and home services, with dedicated in-country account management focused on accuracy, compliance, and customer satisfaction.

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