Generative AI Engineer Jobs for OPT Students
Generative AI Engineer jobs are among the most actively sponsored OPT roles in tech right now. Employers filing H-1B petitions for this title have surged over the past two years, making it a strong fit for F-1 students on STEM OPT extensions. Most roles qualify under computer science or electrical engineering degree fields.
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Please contact Renu Goel 857-207-2676 renu.goel@yoh.com W2 only no corps Lead AI Enablement Engineer with a strong background in Programming, Investment & Asset Management domain.
LOCATION: Ability to work onsite in Boston 4 days a week – NYC may be an option but Boston is the preference.
Keys to the Position
- Must have a strong background in Investment & Asset Management as well as Computer Science.
- Demonstrated experience applying Generative AI or LLM tools in professional analytical or investment research workflows.
- Strong understanding of the investment research process, including company analysis, financial modeling, market sizing, earnings analysis, and ongoing model maintenance.
- Programming proficiency sufficient to support and teach AI assisted workflows, with Python strongly preferred, including familiarity with basic web data collection concepts.
- Post graduate degree with meaningful depth in both finance and computer science or closely related fields.
POSITION
Client continues to see rapid adoption of artificial intelligence across research, modeling, data synthesis, and idea generation. Investors are already using AI as a high leverage research and analytical tool, often acting as self-directed data scientists within their own workflows. To build on this momentum Wellington is seeking an Investment AI Enablement Lead to help systematize, scale, and upskill AI usage across the Investment team. This individual will be responsible for defining and teaching best practices for applied AI in investment research, while remaining closely grounded in how investors actually work day to day. This role is expected to be part-time or consultant based and highly collaborative, working directly with investors, analysts, and existing technology partners. The focus is practical impact, not centralized model building or infrastructure ownership.
Responsibilities
- Assess current state AI usage across investment teams and identify repeatable best practice workflows for research, modeling, synthesis, ongoing model maintenance, and data collection.
- Design and deliver live and asynchronous training sessions on applied AI usage for investors, including prompting techniques, iterative refinement, validation methods, and responsible automation.
- Develop reusable playbooks, templates, and example workflows for high impact use cases such as company primers, TAM construction, earnings call distillation, qualitative pricing research, AI assisted updating of analyst financial models, and structured data gathering via web-based sources.
- Train investors on effective use of AI for non-obvious and hard to find information, including synthesizing insights from forums, filings, customer commentary, and improving the cleaning, structuring, and aggregation of data from third party vendors and unstructured public sources.
- Provide guidance on AI assisted data science, modeling, and web scraping workflows, including the use of AI to help generate, explain, and maintain Python scripts for data collection, cleaning, normalization, and organization, while maintaining appropriate human oversight.
- Educate teams on known limitations of LLMs, including numerical accuracy issues, logic errors, scraping reliability, and establish clear validation standards.
- Partner with internal stakeholders as needed to align AI enablement with governance, data handling, and responsible usage expectations.
Estimated Min Rate: $70.00
Estimated Max Rate: $95.00
What’s In It for You?
We welcome you to be a part of the largest and legendary global staffing companies to meet your career aspirations. Yoh’s network of client companies has been employing professionals like you for over 65 years in the U.S., UK and Canada. Join Yoh’s extensive talent community that will provide you with access to Yoh’s vast network of opportunities and gain access to this exclusive opportunity available to you. Benefit eligibility is in accordance with applicable laws and client requirements. Benefits include:
- Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Benefits (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
- Health Savings Account (HSA) (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
- Life & Disability Insurance (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
- MetLife Voluntary Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 401K Retirement Savings Plan
- Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll
- Referral Bonus Programs
- Certification and training opportunities
Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations. Actual pay is determined by an applicant's experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description. All qualified applicants are welcome to apply.
Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Visit https://www.yoh.com/applicants-with-disabilities to contact us if you are an individual with a disability and require accommodation in the application process. For California applicants, qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. All of the material job duties described in this posting are job duties for which a criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
By applying and submitting your resume, you authorize Yoh to review and reformat your resume to meet Yoh’s hiring clients’ preferences. To learn more about Yoh’s privacy practices, please see our Candidate Privacy Notice: https://www.yoh.com/privacy-notice
INTRODUCTION
Please contact Renu Goel 857-207-2676 renu.goel@yoh.com W2 only no corps Lead AI Enablement Engineer with a strong background in Programming, Investment & Asset Management domain.
LOCATION: Ability to work onsite in Boston 4 days a week – NYC may be an option but Boston is the preference.
Keys to the Position
- Must have a strong background in Investment & Asset Management as well as Computer Science.
- Demonstrated experience applying Generative AI or LLM tools in professional analytical or investment research workflows.
- Strong understanding of the investment research process, including company analysis, financial modeling, market sizing, earnings analysis, and ongoing model maintenance.
- Programming proficiency sufficient to support and teach AI assisted workflows, with Python strongly preferred, including familiarity with basic web data collection concepts.
- Post graduate degree with meaningful depth in both finance and computer science or closely related fields.
POSITION
Client continues to see rapid adoption of artificial intelligence across research, modeling, data synthesis, and idea generation. Investors are already using AI as a high leverage research and analytical tool, often acting as self-directed data scientists within their own workflows. To build on this momentum Wellington is seeking an Investment AI Enablement Lead to help systematize, scale, and upskill AI usage across the Investment team. This individual will be responsible for defining and teaching best practices for applied AI in investment research, while remaining closely grounded in how investors actually work day to day. This role is expected to be part-time or consultant based and highly collaborative, working directly with investors, analysts, and existing technology partners. The focus is practical impact, not centralized model building or infrastructure ownership.
Responsibilities
- Assess current state AI usage across investment teams and identify repeatable best practice workflows for research, modeling, synthesis, ongoing model maintenance, and data collection.
- Design and deliver live and asynchronous training sessions on applied AI usage for investors, including prompting techniques, iterative refinement, validation methods, and responsible automation.
- Develop reusable playbooks, templates, and example workflows for high impact use cases such as company primers, TAM construction, earnings call distillation, qualitative pricing research, AI assisted updating of analyst financial models, and structured data gathering via web-based sources.
- Train investors on effective use of AI for non-obvious and hard to find information, including synthesizing insights from forums, filings, customer commentary, and improving the cleaning, structuring, and aggregation of data from third party vendors and unstructured public sources.
- Provide guidance on AI assisted data science, modeling, and web scraping workflows, including the use of AI to help generate, explain, and maintain Python scripts for data collection, cleaning, normalization, and organization, while maintaining appropriate human oversight.
- Educate teams on known limitations of LLMs, including numerical accuracy issues, logic errors, scraping reliability, and establish clear validation standards.
- Partner with internal stakeholders as needed to align AI enablement with governance, data handling, and responsible usage expectations.
Estimated Min Rate: $70.00
Estimated Max Rate: $95.00
What’s In It for You?
We welcome you to be a part of the largest and legendary global staffing companies to meet your career aspirations. Yoh’s network of client companies has been employing professionals like you for over 65 years in the U.S., UK and Canada. Join Yoh’s extensive talent community that will provide you with access to Yoh’s vast network of opportunities and gain access to this exclusive opportunity available to you. Benefit eligibility is in accordance with applicable laws and client requirements. Benefits include:
- Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Benefits (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
- Health Savings Account (HSA) (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
- Life & Disability Insurance (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
- MetLife Voluntary Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 401K Retirement Savings Plan
- Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll
- Referral Bonus Programs
- Certification and training opportunities
Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations. Actual pay is determined by an applicant's experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description. All qualified applicants are welcome to apply.
Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Visit https://www.yoh.com/applicants-with-disabilities to contact us if you are an individual with a disability and require accommodation in the application process. For California applicants, qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. All of the material job duties described in this posting are job duties for which a criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
By applying and submitting your resume, you authorize Yoh to review and reformat your resume to meet Yoh’s hiring clients’ preferences. To learn more about Yoh’s privacy practices, please see our Candidate Privacy Notice: https://www.yoh.com/privacy-notice
How to Get Visa Sponsorship as a Generative AI Engineer
Target companies with active LCA filings
Employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for AI or machine learning roles in the past 12 months are far more likely to sponsor again. This filing history is public record and signals genuine sponsorship infrastructure, not just intent.
Lead with your model fine-tuning experience
Hiring managers for generative AI roles prioritize hands-on work with large language models. Specify the models you've fine-tuned, the frameworks you used, and the downstream tasks your work improved. Vague AI experience won't move your resume forward.
Prioritize startups backed by major AI investors
Well-funded AI startups often move faster on sponsorship decisions than large enterprises. Companies backed by established venture firms typically have legal counsel already familiar with H-1B filings for engineering roles.
Build a public portfolio of generative AI projects
A GitHub repository or demo application showing retrieval-augmented generation, prompt engineering, or multimodal model work gives hiring managers something concrete to evaluate before your interview, which reduces perceived sponsorship risk.
Frame your degree field precisely on applications
Generative AI Engineer roles qualify as specialty occupations under computer science, electrical engineering, or mathematics. State your degree field explicitly on applications and in interviews so employers understand the OPT authorization is already well-established for this role.
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Do Generative AI Engineer roles qualify for STEM OPT extension?
Yes. Generative AI Engineer positions fall under CIP codes tied to computer science, electrical engineering, and related STEM fields, which are all on the STEM OPT designated degree program list. If your degree is in one of those fields, you're eligible for the 24-month STEM OPT extension on top of your initial 12-month OPT period, giving you up to three years of work authorization.
How hard is it to find a Generative AI Engineer job that sponsors OPT?
Generative AI is one of the fastest-growing engineering disciplines, and employer demand has outpaced domestic supply consistently over the past two years. Many companies actively recruiting for these roles already have H-1B sponsorship infrastructure in place. Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically for OPT-sponsoring employers, so you're not wading through postings that will reject you at the authorization question.
What degree fields support OPT authorization for Generative AI Engineer roles?
Computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, statistics, and data science degrees all commonly support OPT authorization for generative AI positions. USCIS evaluates whether a direct relationship exists between your degree field and the job duties. For generative AI roles involving model training, fine-tuning, and deployment, computer science and electrical engineering degrees have the clearest precedent.
Can I work as a Generative AI Engineer at a startup on OPT?
Yes, with one important caveat: the employer must sign your STEM OPT I-983 training plan and meet the E-Verify requirement. Startups are eligible sponsors as long as they're enrolled in E-Verify. Many well-funded AI startups already meet this requirement. Confirm E-Verify enrollment before accepting an offer, because without it your STEM OPT extension cannot be authorized.
What should I look for in a Generative AI Engineer job posting to assess sponsorship likelihood?
Look for explicit H-1B or OPT sponsorship language in the posting, E-Verify enrollment, and prior LCA filings for similar roles. Companies that mention visa sponsorship availability, even briefly, are signaling existing infrastructure. Postings that say 'must be authorized to work without sponsorship' are disqualifying. Filtering by sponsorship-open employers from the start saves significant time.
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