Senior AI Engineer (contract)

Capgemini’s customer is looking for a senior AI Engineer to lead IVR and Conversational AI initiatives, designing scalable LLM and NLP solutions for high-volume customer interactions. This role will drive architecture, best practices, and innovation across voice AI systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and develop AI-driven IVR and conversational systems using Python
• Build NLP models for text classification and clustering to support intent detection and call routing
• Perform data analysis using SQL on large-scale IVR and interaction datasets
• Design and deploy LLM workflows (prompt engineering, RAG, evaluation) for voice and chat use cases
• Lead development of agentic AI workflows for multi-step customer interactions
• Establish LLMOps best practices, including monitoring, evaluation, and lifecycle management
• Partner with IVR platform, speech engineering, and product teams
• Mentor offshore and junior AI engineers

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in AI / ML

• Very strong proficiency in Python

• Proven expertise in NLP, including:

• Text classification

• Clustering

• Strong experience in data analysis using SQL

• Hands-on experience with LLMs:

• Prompt engineering

• Evaluation frameworks

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Good to Have

• Experience with Agentic AI and multi-agent orchestration
• Experience with LLMOps / MLOps in production environments
• Familiarity with IVR platforms and speech technologies (ASR, NLU, TTS)

Libraries & Tools

• Python / ML: NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, XGBoost
• NLP: spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers, NLTK, Sentence-Transformers
• LLM Frameworks: LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI SDK
• Agentic AI (Good to Have): LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI
• Data & SQL: Oracle, MySQL, SQLAlchemy
• Vector Databases: FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant
• LLMOps / MLOps (Good to Have): MLflow, Weights & Biases, BentoML, Airflow

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $47.34/hour - $73.96/hour. Our offered benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

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