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Senior AI Engineer

New York City Part-time Hybrid $20 — $25 hourly 10/01/2026 Job ID: 000336
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Python FastAPI SQL PostgreSQL Redis

Summary

What you’ll impact

Our organization is seeking a senior AI/Software Engineer in New York City to develop a large‑scale document intelligence platform using Python, OCR, LLMs, and GPU infrastructure. The role involves building production services, data pipelines, and hybrid on‑prem/cloud solutions, with a part‑time commitment of about 20 hours per week and potential for more hours based on performance.

Responsibilities

What you'll do

  • Build production Python services, APIs, and data-processing pipelines
  • Process large volumes of PDFs, HTML, images, scans, and structured/unstructured data
  • Build OCR, extraction, parsing, normalization, and document-classification pipelines
  • Extract tables, entities, relationships, metadata, citations, and structured records
  • Build ETL and high-volume batch-processing systems
  • Develop hybrid search, embeddings, vector search, RAG, reranking, and evidence retrieval
  • Integrate Claude, Qwen, OpenAI, Gemini, and open-source models
  • Deploy and serve local LLMs on NVIDIA H100/H200 GPUs
  • Work with vLLM, PyTorch, Hugging Face, CUDA, quantization, batching, and GPU inference optimization
  • Build and maintain the AWS/cloud deployment
  • Work with PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, S3, Redis, queues, and related data infrastructure
  • Build APIs, webhooks, Stripe integrations, authentication, and third-party integrations
  • Write automated tests covering OCR, extraction, retrieval, data pipelines, and AI outputs
  • Debug complex AI, data, backend, and infrastructure issues
  • Document architecture and implementation decisions

Requirements

What you’ll bring

  • Education: If you did your undergrad in India, save your time and DO NOT APPLY
  • You will have to submit a W-9 when hired, no OPT, W-8, or other types of sponsorship
  • Work Authorization: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States under an arrangement compatible with a W-9 contractor engagement. NextGen Coding Company cannot provide OPT or employment/visa sponsorship for the role.
  • Location: New York City — Hybrid / In-Person Required
  • Strong Python engineering experience
  • Strong backend and data-engineering fundamentals
  • Experience building production software
  • OCR / document intelligence experience
  • Experience processing PDFs, images, and large datasets
  • Production experience with LLMs, RAG, embeddings, and vector search
  • Experience deploying open-source models on NVIDIA GPU infrastructure
  • Understanding of H100/H200-class inference environments
  • Strong AWS experience
  • PostgreSQL / SQL
  • Docker and Linux
  • REST APIs and third-party integrations
  • Ability to independently own difficult engineering problems
  • Applicants should provide: Resume or LinkedIn
  • Applicants should provide: GitHub and/or technical portfolio
  • Applicants should provide: Examples of production AI/data systems built
  • Applicants should provide: Experience with Python, OCR, LLMs, AWS, and GPU infrastructure
  • Applicants should provide: Specific NVIDIA GPU/model deployment experience, if applicable

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Equal Opportunity Employer

Intelatek is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration based on qualifications, merit, and business need, without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. Need an accommodation? Email accommodations@intelatek.co.