AI Engineer

Location:Dallas TX. 2-3 days on-site.
Employment Type: Contractor
Compensation: $50 - $70/hr.Compensation will be determined based on relevant experience skills and overall qualifications.
Requirements: Must be authorized to work legally in the US without sponsorship now or in the future.

About Us

Concord isnt your typical consulting firm; we are an execution company with a passion for making things happen. Our mission is to help clients enhance customer experiences optimize operations and revolutionize their product offerings through seamless integration optimization and activation of technology and data.

We are purpose-built merging the industrys top specialty companies to amplify our Innovation Capabilities in analytics & AI data management & engineering UX and digital experience and technical platform integration automation & security engineering.

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled AI Engineer to join a client engagement focused on building and deploying intelligent production-ready AI solutions. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives at the intersection of large language models applied ML and real-world system design. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to implement AI-driven features that deliver measurable business impact.

• Design develop and optimize LLM-powered applications using prompt engineering fine-tuning and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures.
• Build and maintain agentic workflows and multi-step AI pipelines using frameworks such as LangChain LlamaIndex or AutoGen.
• Evaluate select and integrate appropriate LLMs (OpenAI Anthropic Mistral Llama Gemini etc.) based on use case requirements.
• Collaborate with data product and engineering teams to move AI solutions from prototype to production.
• Continuously monitor model performance identify failure modes and implement improvements
  Document architecture decisions and maintain clean scalable Python codebases.

ExperienceandSkills

Required Experience:

• 47 years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years focused on AI/ML or LLM development.
• Strong Python proficiency.
• Hands-on experience with prompt engineering techniques (chain-of-thought few-shot system prompting etc.).
• Experience fine-tuning LLMs (LoRA PEFT instruction tuning or similar approaches).
• Solid understanding of RAG architecture chunking strategies embedding models retrieval optimization.
• Experience designing and implementing agent workflows (tool use memory planning loops).
• Familiarity with multiple LLM providers and the ability to evaluate trade-offs across models

• Experience with vector databases (Pinecone Weaviate Chroma pgvector).
• Cloud platform experience AWS Azure or GCP.
• MLOps exposure: model versioning deployment pipelines monitoring (MLflow Weights & Biases etc.).
• Background in the retail industry personalization engines recommendation systems inventory/demand forecasting or customer-facing AI features is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with LLM evaluation frameworks (Ragas DeepEval etc.).
• Experience with multimodal models or vision-language applications.

• Technically fluent but able to communicate clearly in business terms comfortable presenting architecture decisions to both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.
• Strategic thinker who operates well in high-stakes environments and can drive clarity.
• Collaborative leader who thrivesin building alignment across cross-functional teams.
  

WhatWeOffer(only for W-2Employment)

• HealthDentalandVisionInsurance:Comprehensivecoveragetosupportyouroverallwell-being.
• EmployerContributionstoHealthSavingsAccounts(HSA):ForemployeesenrolledinHighDeductibleHealthPlansConcordcontributestowardyourHSA.
• FlexibleSpendingAccounts(FSA):OptionsforhealthcareanddependentcareexpensesplusaLifestyleSpendingAccount(LSA)forwellnessandpersonaldevelopment.
• DisabilityInsurance:Short-term(upto12weeks)andlong-termcoveragefullypaidbytheemployer.
• LifeandAD&DInsurance:Employer-providedcoveragewithoptionsforadditionalvoluntarycoverage.
• EmployeeAssistanceProgram(EAP):Supportforlegalfinancialandpersonalchallenges.
• 401(k)RetirementSavings:1%employermatch.
• CareerGrowthOpportunities:Pathwaysforadvancementandskilldevelopment.
• TeamEngagementActivities:Regularteam-buildingeventsandcompany-sponsoredactivitiestofostercollaborationandconnection.

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Concord is an execution partner helping organizations drive digital transformation modernization and scalable technology solutions. We deliver results that solve real business challenges. We operate globally and are growing fast shaping the future of technology. Join a team trusted by top companies to drive strategic growth and operational excellence!