Mastech

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Covington, KY • Posted Yesterday
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🚀 Hiring: Principal AI Engineer | Covington, KY | Onsite


We’re looking for a hands-on Principal AI Engineer to join a brand-new AI engineering organization building innovative GenAI/LLM solutions for a leading financial services organization.


This is a greenfield opportunity where you’ll help shape the technical strategy, architecture, engineering standards, and AI capabilities from the ground up.


📍 Location: Covington, KY

🏢 Work Model: Onsite (5 Days in a week)

📌 Experience: 8+ years of software engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience


🔥 What You'll Do

• Architect and build production-grade AI/GenAI applications from concept through deployment

• Develop solutions using LLMs, AI agents, RAG, semantic search, and workflow automation

• Design scalable enterprise AI platforms and distributed systems

• Partner with product, business, data science, architecture, and engineering teams to identify high-value AI use cases

• Establish engineering best practices and technical standards for a new AI organization

• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across teams

• Build secure, reliable, cloud-native applications at enterprise scale

• Translate emerging AI capabilities into practical business solutions that improve productivity and automate workflows


🧠 Top Skills

1️⃣ AI & LLM Engineering

  • OpenAI
  • Claude / Anthropic
  • Gemini
  • AWS Bedrock
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • CrewAI
  • Python
  • AI Agents / Agentic AI
  • RAG
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Workflow Automation

2️⃣ Data Engineering & AI Data Foundations

  • Snowflake
  • Databricks
  • Data Pipelines
  • ETL / ELT
  • Pinecone
  • Weaviate
  • Chroma
  • Semantic Search
  • Knowledge Retrieval
  • Enterprise Data Architecture

3️⃣ Cloud Architecture, Scale & Security

  • AWS / Azure
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Microservices
  • Cloud-Native Architecture
  • Distributed Systems
  • Security & Scalability


⭐ Ideal Background

We’re looking for someone who is more than an AI developer — you should be a Principal-level technical leader who can architect, build, and take AI solutions into production.


The ideal candidate brings:

✅ Strong GenAI/LLM engineering experience

✅ Hands-on experience building RAG and agentic AI solutions

✅ Strong Python/software engineering background

✅ Enterprise data engineering experience

✅ Cloud architecture and distributed systems expertise

✅ Experience with containers, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code

✅ Strong architecture and system-design skills

✅ Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction

✅ Ability to work directly with business and product stakeholders

✅ Experience taking AI solutions from POC → production

💡 Example AI Use Cases


The team will work on solutions such as:

• Automated meeting preparation and research

• Intelligent call summarization and insight generation

• Automated follow-up and workflow orchestration

• Enterprise knowledge retrieval and recommendation systems

• AI-assisted decision support

• Productivity and workflow automation using enterprise data


📞 Interview Process

2–3 rounds

  1. Initial Zoom/phone screen
  2. Technical interview with engineering/architecture team
  3. Product/business discussion
  • If you're a Principal/Staff-level AI Engineer who wants to help build an AI organization from the ground up, I'd love to connect.


    📩 Interested? Send me your resume on abhishek.bisht@mastechdigital.com or apply on this job post.


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