AI Data Engineer Jobs in North Carolina

Role: Gen AI Data Engineer

Location: Charlotte, NC (Onsite from Day 1)

Job Type: Contract (W2)

NOTE: This Role Requires NATIVE SPANISH SPEAKER

Job Summary

Seeking an AI Engineer to support our IVR and Conversational AI platforms, with a strong focus on building LLM powered voice and chat experiences.
This role involves designing and developing prompt driven and RAG based AI solutions that enhance customer interactions across IVR channels.
The ideal candidate will have hands on experience with large language models, vector databases, and conversational AI frameworks.
As this position supports both English and Spanish customer experiences, the candidate must be a native Spanish speaker to ensure high quality prompt design, linguistic accuracy, and culturally aligned conversational flows.

Experience

Overall 10 Plus years.
3+ years of experience in AI / ML development.
Strong proficiency in Python.
Hands-on experience with LLMs, including:
- Prompt engineering
- Model evaluation
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
* Experience working in enterprise or customer-facing systems is a plus.

Nice To Have Skills

NLP experience related to conversational AI.
Develop and maintain AI solutions for IVR and conversational platforms.
Implement LLM-based workflows including prompt engineering, evaluation, and RAG.
Build knowledge retrieval pipelines to support IVR use cases (FAQs, troubleshooting, account queries).
Collaborate with IVR, speech, and platform teams to integrate AI models into production systems.
Evaluate model performance for accuracy, latency, and conversational quality.
Assist in continuous improvement of AI-driven voice experiences.
Python / ML: NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn.
LLM Frameworks: LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face Transformers.
Vector Databases: FAISS, Chroma, Pinecone, Qdrant.
NLP (Good to Have): spaCy, NLTK, Sentence-Transformers.
LLM Evaluation: TruLens, DeepEval, OpenAI Evals.