[Hiring] Lead AI Engineer @Jahnel Group

Role Description

We're in search of a Lead AI Engineer to join our team right away. Our ideal candidate brings hands-on experience building and deploying AI solutions and a strong understanding of the rapidly evolving AI landscape. We value engineers who pair strong technical foundations with curiosity, creativity, and the ability to quickly prototype innovative AI-powered applications.

• Design, build, and deploy AI-powered applications and services that integrate with existing systems and workflows.
• Prototype and iterate on AI solutions rapidly, translating business needs into functional AI features within short development cycles.
• Develop and implement agentic AI workflows (e.g., planning, reflection, tool use) using modern orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph.
• Apply prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) techniques to improve model accuracy, reliability, and performance.
• Prepare and manage multimodal datasets by cleaning, transforming, and structuring complex data sources including documents, PDFs, and images.
• Stay current with the evolving AI ecosystem—evaluating new models, benchmarking performance, and selecting the right tools for each use case.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building, deploying, and maintaining AI-powered solutions in production environments.
• Strong understanding of modern AI/LLM ecosystems, including model evaluation, benchmarking, and selecting models for specific tasks.
• Experience implementing agentic workflows (e.g., planning, reflection, tool use) and orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph or similar systems.
• Proficiency with web application development using Next.js, React, and Python backend frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask.
• Experience with prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and integrating AI capabilities via REST APIs.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), Databricks, Oracle ERP and agentic AI frameworks.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Requirements

• Location: Schenectady, New York
• 100% Remote for the right candidate

Benefits

• Salary Range: $120,000 - $175,000+
• Salary is negotiable and the range can be increased based on qualifications, certifications and experience.
• Free Health Insurance Option for all (Single, 2 - Party and Family).
• 401k Safe Harbor Plan.
• Generous PTO - Maternity / Paternity Leave.
• Revenue Sharing Incentive.
• Certification Reimbursement and Bounty Programs.

Other Information

• The work hours will be approximately 9:00 am to 5:00 pm EST, depending on workload, with the occasional late night when a tight deadline calls for it.
• We work for security-conscious clients, thus background checks will be required.
• Salary dependent upon experience.