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This role contributes to the development and production deployment of GenAI-enabled applications, including LLM-powered workflows, RAG pipelines, and AI-driven user experiences. \nThis role supports SDLC documentation across all phases, with a focus on deployment, evaluation, observability, safety, and monitoring. It also interacts with users to define requirements and support applications in production.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDevelop and modify application modules, including GenAI components. \nBuild prompt workflows, retrieval layers, APIs, and cloud services. \nTroubleshoot production issues, including latency, hallucinations, and errors. \nProvide Level II production support for deployed systems. \nDesign components, including LLM integrations and RAG pipelines. \nImplement CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and release processes. \nDevelop RAG pipelines with embeddings, chunking, and vector search. \nApply prompt engineering techniques, including few-shot prompting and structured outputs. \nEvaluate models for accuracy, relevance, and hallucination risk. \nImplement safety guardrails, including PII protection and prompt-injection defense. \nExecute testing, including unit, integration, and GenAI evaluation testing. \nMonitor production systems for latency, cost, usage, and errors. \nSupport incident management with fallback and recovery strategies. \nWhat You’ll Need\n4+ years of experience in IT or a related field. \n2+ years of software engineering experience. \n1+ year of experience in GenAI deployment. \nExperience with AI coding agent-augmented development. \nExperience with cost optimization, including token and caching strategies. \nExperience with Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, or SQL. \nExperience building and deploying applications. \nKnowledge of cloud platforms, containers, and CI/CD. \nUnderstanding of SDLC, APIs, and system architecture. \nKnowledge of databases and data integration. \nUnderstanding of LLM fundamentals and token behavior. \nExperience with LLMOps/MLOps, including versioning and experiment tracking. \nExperience with prompt engineering techniques. \nExperience with RAG pipelines, including embeddings and vector search. \nFamiliarity with evaluation metrics, including accuracy and hallucination risk. \nKnowledge of GenAI debugging and safety mechanisms. \nKnowledge of deployment governance, including access control and compliance. \nExperience with observability, including logging, tracing, and monitoring. \nExperience with Azure, AWS, or GCP. \nStrong communication and requirements-gathering skills. \nPreferred Generative AI Skills\nExperience with model orchestration, including multi-step workflows and agents. \nExperience with LangChain, Semantic Kernel, or AutoGen. \nExperience designing embeddings and semantic search solutions. \nExperience with experimentation and A/B testing of prompts and models.\nExperience with conversational UX and human-AI interaction design. \nExperience with incident handling, including retries and graceful degradation. \nThe typical annual salary range for this position is shown below and is negotiable depending upon experience and location. The position is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus.\n$85,000.00 - $124,000.00We offer exceptional earning potential and a competitive benefits package, including group health insurance benefits (medical, vision, dental), FSA and HSA healthcare accounts, life and accident insurance, adoption and fertility assistance, paid parental leave of up to 6 weeks, and short/long term disability. Robert Half provides paid time off for vacation, personal needs, and sick time. The amount of Choice Time Off (CTO) our people receive varies based on their years of service and is pro-rated based on the hours worked per week. A new hire earns up to 17 days of CTO per calendar year. Our people also receive up to 11 paid holidays per calendar year. We also offer the opportunity to contribute to our company 401(k) savings and investment plan or deferred compensation plan (if eligible), with an employer match of 100% on the first 3% of your contributions for eligible employees. Learn more at https://roberthalfbenefits.com.\nRobert Half Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/Disability/Veteran\nAs part of Robert Half’s Corporate Services facility employment process, any offer of employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.\nOur recruiters use their expertise and may utilize AI to help with their evaluation of candidates.\nRobert Half is committed to being an equal employment employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us by sending an email to  or call 1.855.744.6947 for assistance.\nIn your email please include the following:\nThe specific accommodation requested to complete the employment application.\n\nThe location(s) (city, state) to which you would like to apply.\n\nFor positions located in San Francisco, CA: Robert Half will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.\nFor positions located in Los Angeles County, CA: Robert Half will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5696,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Health insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-13T14:06:48Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":0,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 19 · green card filings: 11","filings_12m":19,"filings_prev_12m":28,"green_card_filings_12m":11,"median_offered_wage_usd":153833,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-11-12T07:36:15+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":12}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":25,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-13T16:33:37Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/robert-half-ai-engineer-ii","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/robert-half-ai-engineer-ii.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-13T16:33:37Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":33196,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-14T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":179772},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=179772"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Frobert-half-ai-engineer-ii"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Frobert-half-ai-engineer-ii"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Frobert-half-ai-engineer-ii"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/robert-half-ai-engineer-ii\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Frobert-half-ai-engineer-ii"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4251187}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"roberthalf.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4251187},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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