AI Engineer (contract)

**Title****:** AI Engineer **Location****:** 550 S Tryon St Charlotte, NC **Duration****:** 12 months **Work Engagement****:** W2 **Work Schedule**: hybrid **Benefits on offer for this contract position**: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits **Summary:** We are seeking an experienced AI Engineer to design, develop, and deploy AI agents that automate business processes, enhance decision\-making, and improve operational efficiency across collateral and lending workflows. The ideal candidate has practical experience building agentic AI solutions, integrating AI into enterprise systems, and delivering production\-ready applications in a regulated environment. Banking or financial services experience is strongly preferred. **Responsibilities:** **Agent Development** * Design and implement AI agents and multi\-step agentic workflows. * Develop retrieval\-augmented generation (RAG) solutions using enterprise knowledge sources. * Integrate AI agents with internal applications, databases, and APIs. * Monitor and improve agent accuracy, reliability, and performance. **AI Engineering** * Build production\-grade applications using large language models. * Develop reusable prompts, workflows, and AI components. * Collaborate with business and technology teams to identify and implement AI use cases. * Support deployment, testing, and operationalization of AI solutions. **Governance \& Risk** * Ensure AI solutions comply with security, privacy, and governance requirements. * Implement monitoring, traceability, and responsible AI controls. * Participate in model governance and validation activities. **Qualifications****:** * Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. * 5\+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or related technical disciplines. * 2\+ years of hands\-on experience developing Generative AI solutions. * Proven experience designing, building, and deploying AI agents or agentic workflows. * Strong Python development experience. * Strong SQL and data querying skills. * Experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs) and related AI technologies. * Experience building APIs and integrating enterprise applications and data sources. * Experience with source control tools such as Git and modern software development practices. * Strong problem\-solving, analytical, and solution\-design capabilities. * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. * Banking, Commercial Lending, Financial Services, or Collateral Management experience. (preferred) * Experience with agent frameworks such as: + LangChain + LangGraph + CrewAI + AutoGen + Similar agentic AI platforms * Experience designing and implementing RAG architectures. * Knowledge of data governance, metadata management, and data quality frameworks. * Exposure to semantic technologies, including: + Ontologies + Knowledge Graphs + RDF + OWL * Experience supporting AI solutions in highly regulated environments.