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About This Role
Why work with us?
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Proven people.
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Everyone on our team has earned a CPC (Certified Personnel Consultant) or CTS (Certified Temporary Staffing Specialist) accreditation from the National Association of Personnel Services. We are experts at staffing and recruiting with more than 16 years of experience serving employers.
Proven process.
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Our approach to staffing isn’t just a little bit different; it’s a whole different ball game. While most staffing firms emphasize transactional services (taking and filling job orders), BTI Solutions focuses on providing more strategic solutions.
By acting as workforce consultants, we are able to find innovative and intelligent strategies for improving productivity, meeting project deadlines, improving hiring quality, decreasing turnover, and reducing total labor costs.
Our recruiting and candidate assessment process assures the highest quality matches between job seeker and employer, so you will get people who not only have the right qualifications but who also have the appropriate personality fit for your organization.
Proven results.
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More than anything, the biggest difference with BTI Solutions is the one that matters most: bottom\-line results.
- 95% client satisfaction rate – measures client satisfaction vs. expectations.
- Our clients have worked with us for over 10 years, on average.
- BTI Solutions counts 4 Global Telecommunication companies as clients.
- Client referrals are BTI Solutions’ largest source of new clients.
- Google Review 4\.4, Facebook Review 4\.8
Sr. Gen AI EngineerWhat You’ll Do
- Design and develop algorithms for generative models using deep learning techniques
- Design and build LLM\-powered applications for internal and/or customer\-facing use cases
- Develop and productionize RAG pipelines using enterprise data sources, vector databases, and retrieval systems
- Build and optimize AI agents / agentic workflows for task automation, reasoning, and orchestration
- Integrate model providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, and open\-source models where appropriate
- Create robust evaluation frameworks for response quality, factuality, latency, safety, and reliability
- Implement prompt engineering, structured outputs, tool calling, and model optimization strategies
- Deploy scalable AI services to cloud environments using modern software engineering and MLOps practices
- Build monitoring, observability, and feedback loops for model and application performance in production
- Establish and maintain guardrails, responsible AI practices, and security controls for enterprise AI systems
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and business stakeholders to identify high\-impact AI opportunities
- Mentor other engineers and contribute to architecture, technical direction, and engineering best practices
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related field
- 5\+ years of software engineering, machine/deep learning engineering, or applied AI experience
- 2\+ years of hands\-on experience building and deploying Generative AI / LLM\-based systems in production
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience with backend/API development
- Experience with LLM application development, including prompt engineering, RAG, tool use, and structured output design
- Experience in optimizing RAG pipelines using both structured and unstructured data
- Experience with orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or equivalent
- Experience in generative AI techniques such as GANs, and VAEs
- Hands\-on experience with vector databases / retrieval systems such as Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, FAISS, Elasticsearch, or Azure AI Search
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and production deployment practices
- Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, reliability, and distributed systems
- Experience building evaluation, testing, and monitoring for AI systems
- Strong communication skills and ability to work closely with technical and non\-technical stakeholder
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience fine\-tuning or adapting open\-source LLMs
- Advanced knowledge of natural language processing for text generation tasks
- Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, or related ML frameworks
- Experience with MLOps tools such as MLflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML, Kubeflow, or similar
- Experience building multi\-agent systems or advanced orchestration workflows
- Experience with AI safety, guardrails, red\-teaming, privacy, and governance
- Familiarity with search, ranking, recommendation, conversational AI, or enterprise knowledge systems
- Experience in customer\-facing or enterprise SaaS products
- Experience in semiconductor/manufacturing, retail and e\-commerce sectors
What Success Looks Like
- Deliver production\-ready GenAI features that improve user experience and business outcomes
- Build reliable and scalable AI systems with strong quality, latency, and cost performance
- Establish best practices for evaluation, observability, and responsible AI development
- Help define the company’s long\-term Generative AI architecture and roadmap
Compensation \& Benefits
- Opportunity to shape the company’s GenAI strategy and core platform
- Work on high\-impact, real\-world AI products with ownership from design to deployment
- Collaborative environment with strong technical autonomy and room for growth
Role Details
About This Role
AI/ML Engineers build and deploy machine learning models in production. They work across the full ML lifecycle: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure. The role has evolved significantly over the past two years. Where ML Engineers once spent most of their time on model architecture, the job now tilts heavily toward inference optimization, cost management, and integrating LLM capabilities into existing systems. Companies want engineers who can ship production systems, and the experimenter-only role is fading fast.
Day-to-day, you're writing training pipelines, debugging data quality issues, setting up evaluation frameworks, and figuring out why your model performs differently in staging than it did on your dev set. The best ML engineers are obsessive about reproducibility and measurement. They instrument everything. They know that a model is only as good as the data feeding it and the infrastructure serving it.
Across the 26,159 AI roles we're tracking, AI/ML Engineer positions make up 91% of the market. At BTI Solutions, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
What the Work Looks Like
A typical week might include: debugging a data pipeline that's silently dropping 3% of training examples, running A/B tests on a new model version, writing documentation for a feature flag system that lets you roll back model deployments, and reviewing a junior engineer's PR for a new evaluation metric. Meetings tend to be cross-functional since ML touches product, engineering, and data teams.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
Skills Required
Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.
Beyond the core stack, employers increasingly want experience with experiment tracking tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases), feature stores, and vector databases. Fine-tuning experience is valuable but less common than you'd think from reading Twitter. Most production LLM work is RAG and prompt engineering, not fine-tuning. If you have both, you're in a strong position.
Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
Compensation Benchmarks
AI/ML Engineer roles pay a median of $166,983 based on 13,781 positions with disclosed compensation. Senior-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $227,400.
Across all AI roles, the market median is $184,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $244,000. The 90th percentile reaches $309,400. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Engineering Manager ($293,500) and AI Architect ($292,900). By seniority level: Entry: $76,880; Mid: $131,300; Senior: $227,400; Director: $244,288; VP: $234,620.
BTI Solutions AI Hiring
BTI Solutions has 3 open AI roles right now. They're hiring across AI/ML Engineer. Positions span Santa Ana, CA, US, Ridgefield Park, NJ, US, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US.
Location Context
Across all AI roles, 7% (1,863 positions) offer remote work, while 24,200 require on-site attendance. Top AI hiring metros: Los Angeles (1,695 roles, $178,000 median); New York (1,670 roles, $200,000 median); San Francisco (1,059 roles, $244,000 median).
Career Path
Common paths into AI/ML Engineer roles include Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Research Engineer.
From here, career progression typically leads toward ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer.
The fastest path into ML engineering is through software engineering with a self-directed ML education. A CS degree helps, but production engineering skills matter more than academic credentials. Build something that works, deploy it, and measure it. That portfolio project is worth more than a Coursera certificate. For career growth, the fork comes around the senior level: go deep on technical complexity (staff/principal track) or move into managing ML teams.
What to Expect in Interviews
Expect system design questions around ML pipelines: how you'd build a training pipeline for a specific use case, handle data drift, or design A/B testing infrastructure for model deployments. Coding rounds typically involve Python, with emphasis on data manipulation (pandas, numpy) and algorithm implementation. Take-home assignments often ask you to build an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw data to deployed model.
When evaluating opportunities: Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
AI Hiring Overview
The AI job market has 26,159 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 2,416 entry-level, 16,247 mid-level, 5,153 senior, and 2,343 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 7% of the market (1,863 positions). The remaining 24,200 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.
The market median for AI roles is $184,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $244,000. The 90th percentile reaches $309,400. Highest-paying categories: AI Engineering Manager ($293,500 median, 28 roles); AI Architect ($292,900 median, 108 roles); AI Safety ($274,200 median, 19 roles).
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
The AI Job Market Today
The AI job market spans 26,159 open positions across 15 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (23,752), AI Software Engineer (598), AI Product Manager (594). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.
The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (2,416) are outnumbered by mid-level (16,247) and senior (5,153) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 2,343 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.
Remote work availability sits at 7% of all AI roles (1,863 positions), with 24,200 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.
AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $184,000. Top-quartile roles start at $244,000, and the 90th percentile reaches $309,400. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.
Category matters for compensation. AI Engineering Manager roles lead at $293,500 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $122,200. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.
The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Rag (16,749 postings), Aws (8,932 postings), Rust (7,660 postings), Python (3,815 postings), Azure (2,678 postings), Gcp (2,247 postings), Prompt Engineering (1,469 postings), Openai (1,269 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.
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