AI Development Engineer - contractual role

1 week, 1 day ago
Contract
Senior
Software Development
Proximity Works

Proximity Works

Proximity Works specializes in developing innovative technology solutions by leveraging a diverse team of coders, designers, and product managers to address complex challenges at scale.

Internet Software & Services
51-250
Founded 2019

Description

  • Translate ambiguous product or business needs into clear technical specifications, system designs, and validation plans.
  • Build, maintain, and scale AI-powered production systems and agentic applications.
  • Design workflows that combine LLMs, VLMs, tools, APIs, retrieval systems, and microservices reliably.
  • Use AI-assisted development tools while preserving code quality, security, performance, and maintainability.
  • Prevent AI-generated code bloat, dead code, and unnecessary complexity.
  • Build observability, evaluation, testing, and monitoring systems for AI-generated outputs.
  • Optimize prompts, model selection, workflows, and inference costs.
  • Apply Responsible AI principles, including safety, privacy, fairness, transparency, and accountability.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, security, data, and design teams.
  • Mentor engineers on AI-first engineering practices and system orchestration.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience building production-grade systems.
  • Experience in one or more modalities such as vision/images, video, text, audio, or speech.
  • Deep hands-on experience with LLMs, VLMs, multimodal AI systems, and foundation model architectures.
  • Ability to find, read, understand, and implement ideas from AI research papers.
  • Experience building or integrating agentic applications, AI copilots, RAG systems, workflow automation, or multimodal GenAI systems.
  • Strong understanding of system design, APIs, data flows, testing, observability, security, and production reliability.
  • Practical experience with prompt engineering, context engineering, model evaluation, benchmarking, and AI workflow orchestration.
  • Ability to convert ambiguous requirements into structured specs, implementation plans, and validation frameworks.
  • Strong debugging, problem-solving, communication, ownership, and learning agility.
  • This is a 6-month contractual role with the possibility of extension based on performance and business requirements.

Benefits

  • Best-in-class salary with compensation aligned to strong talent.
  • Proximity Talks with designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners.
  • Continuous learning with a world-class team and exposure to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development.
  • High-impact work building AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients.
  • Opportunity to work with a trusted technology, design, and consulting partner to major Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies.
  • Global team environment with offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

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