AI Cloud Engineer
jsr tech consultingNewark, NJ
$55.00 - $65.00 per hour
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AI Cloud Engineer
About the Role
Position: AI Cloud Engineer
Location: Hybrid in Newark, NJ
Type: Right to Hire (RTH)
Experience: 3-5 years
Pay: $55-$65 per hour on W2, depending on experience (No C2C)
Build and deploy enterprise-scale agentic AI solutions supporting business workflows, decision support, operational intelligence, and customer engagement Hands-on engineering role delivering production-grade AI agents using AWS Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and governed cloud-native architectures Partner with architects, data teams, product owners, and Responsible AI stakeholders
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop cloud-native microservices, APIs, and event-driven components using Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, FastAPI, AWS Lambda, and EventBridge
- Build and deploy enterprise AI agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Bedrock models, AgentCore Gateway, and agent-to-agent communication
- Implement data ingestion, embeddings, vector search, semantic retrieval, knowledge graph, and memory pipelines
- Develop intent classification, tool routing, workflow orchestration, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop escalation patterns
- Integrate agents with enterprise systems such as Salesforce, Genesys, Denodo, APIs, MCP tools, and event streams
- Build evaluation, monitoring, and tracing for agents, including quality metrics, hallucination and safety checks, latency, and cost
- Uphold enterprise standards for security, IAM, data protection, auditability, Responsible AI, and production reliability
- Lead implementation of specific agent workstreams and mentor associate and mid-level engineers
Required Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of software engineering experience delivering cloud-native applications or AI/ML-enabled platforms
- Strong proficiency in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript, including API development, async processing, test automation, and production debugging
- Experience with microservices, APIs, event-driven workflows, and secure enterprise integrations
- Hands-on AWS experience: serverless, containers, messaging/eventing, IAM, observability, and cloud-native deployment
- Recent experience building enterprise GenAI or agentic AI solutions, including agents, agentic RAG, and multi-step orchestration
- Experience with Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, or comparable LLM and agent runtime platforms
- Experience with LangGraph, LangChain, Strands, MCP, A2A protocols, or comparable multi-agent frameworks
- Experience with model evaluation, prompt engineering, agent quality testing, and LLM-as-judge patterns
- Experience with vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, knowledge bases, and memory stores
- Experience implementing AI guardrails, safety controls, access controls, audit logging, and human escalation paths
- Strong understanding of application security, data governance, scalability, and production operations
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with AWS EventBridge, MSK, SNS/SQS, Step Functions, API Gateway, and container services
- Experience delivering AI or data products in financial services, insurance, or other regulated environments
- Familiarity with enterprise data products, semantic layers, Denodo, knowledge graphs, and Neptune/OpenSearch
- Experience integrating agents with CRM, service, telephony, or workflow platforms such as Salesforce or Genesys
Ideal Candidate:
- Strong software engineer with recent enterprise GenAI and agentic AI experience
- Enjoys turning ambiguous business use cases into reliable, governed, production-ready agents
- Comfortable working across cloud architecture, data integration, AI orchestration, and production operations
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