# AI Developer III

Overview We are seeking a high-impact Senior AI Developer who combines hands-on GenAI development expertise with deep curiosity and a strong focus on business outcomes. This role centers on building and evolving Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications that integrate knowledge from documents, databases, and services to solve real problems across the enterprise. The ideal candidate will have full-stack development experience, with strong proficiency in Python, SQL, and React. Deep familiarity with LLM prompting best practices is expected. They are driven by an instinct to explore-constantly staying attuned to evolving capabilities such as Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), Gemini, or OpenAI's expanding toolsets and quickly translating that insight into tangible experiments and working features. Success in this role requires close engagement with business partners to extract and shape problems, the ability to mentor and elevate junior developers through shared practices and design patterns, and a strong sense of ownership from prototype through to production. This is a role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, delivers with intent, and believes GenAI can change how p

- **Id**: 990076
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/western-southern-ai-developer-iii>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cincinnati, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-17T02:02:28Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-20
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T05:50:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 53
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4244
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Asset Management & Funds

## Company

- **Id**: 1881179
- **Name**: Western & Southern
- **Domain**: westernsouthern.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/western-southern>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: iCIMS

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 105000
- **Max usd**: 203000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 508

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Anthropic** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **Gemini** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 53

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-17T02:02:28Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 18
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.526
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 53
- **Expected fill days**: 18
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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