Senior AI Engineer

Power Staffing Solutions is hiring a Senior AI Engineer for the AI & Emerging Technologies team at a large broadcasting television network. This onsite contract role in New York focuses on researching, prototyping, evaluating, and deploying AI, ML, and agentic applications, with a pathway to scale proven work into production.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform research and development across AI/ML technologies, architectures, and emerging capabilities.
• Design, prototype, and deploy AI, LLM, and agentic applications for proof-of-concept demonstrations and experimentation.
• Identify AI solutions that demonstrate success and support transition and scaling into production environments.
• Advance capabilities across Traditional AI, Generative AI, and Agentic AI.
• Track emerging AI trends, technologies, tools, and industry developments, and support organizational adoption.
• Evaluate and pilot third-party AI solutions for technical fit, scalability, security, and business value.
• Build AI prototypes that inform future product development and commercialization.
• Contribute to data preparation, data strategy, and synthetic data generation for AI experimentation and model development.
• Evaluate AI models and solutions for performance, safety, reliability, and operational readiness prior to production hand-off.
• Support architecture, design, and technical direction for AI-powered systems.
• Deploy, manage, and optimize AI workflows in cloud environments.
• Collaborate with AI Business Partners and cross-functional stakeholders to develop and implement AI initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Strong programming experience with Python, APIs, machine learning frameworks, and AI development tools.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and development tools, including GitHub Copilot, Codex, Claude Code, ChatGPT, or Microsoft Copilot.
• Experience building AI applications using LangChain and/or ADK.
• Hands-on experience with LLM platforms and models, including OpenAI GPT, Google AI, and Claude.
• Strong understanding of embeddings, vector databases, and retrieval-based AI architectures.
• Experience designing, developing, managing, and integrating APIs.
• Strong knowledge of prompt engineering and optimization techniques.
• Experience with AI model evaluation, testing, experimentation, and model design.
• Solid understanding of AI architecture, system design, and scalable AI application development.
• Experience with data preparation, transformation, generation, and synthetic data strategies.
• Experience working with cloud platforms, particularly AWS and/or GCP.

Technologies

• Python, APIs
• GitHub Copilot, Codex, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot
• LangChain, ADK
• OpenAI GPT, Google AI, Claude
• Embeddings, vector databases, retrieval-based AI architectures
• Prompt engineering
• AWS, GCP

Contract Details and Location

• Location: New York, NY (onsite)
• Job Type: Contract
• Compensation: USD 130 - 200 per hourly

Benefits

• Duration: 6-month contract with a strong possibility of becoming permanent
• Pay: 130/hr - 200/hr
• Work Location: In person