AI Engineer

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for an AI Engineer for a contract assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in Philadelphia, PA
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Responsibilities :

• MCP Server Platform (30%)
  • Deploy, configure, and manage MCP servers (tools/providers, resource access, authentication/secrets, observability).
  • Integrate MCP with internal services and APIs while ensuring compliance with Gov Cloud security standards.
• Conversational AI (10%)
  • Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using Gov Cloud-compatible services (e.g., Open Search Service) for grounded responses.
• Agentic AI & Orchestration (20%)
  • Develop agentic workflows for task decomposition, planning, tool use, and multi-agent coordination.
  • Implement AWS Bedrock guardrails, fallback strategies, and audit trails for safe execution.
• Quality Engineering & Testability (10%)
  • Extend modern test frameworks (e.g., Playwright) to automate UI and API testing using GenAI capabilities.
  • Integrate MCP tools and agentic AI into test automation for dynamic test generation, intelligent validation, and adaptive error handling.
  • Ensure structured logging, correlation IDs, and compliance-ready audit records for all test executions.
• Gov Cloud Architecture (20%)
  • Map prototypes to AWS Gov Cloud managed services (API Gateway, Lambda, S3, Open Search, Cloud Watch, KMS).
  • Deliver solutions fully compatible with AWS Gov Cloud to maintain zero egress.
• Security & Compliance (10%)
  • Apply least-privilege IAM, KMS-backed secrets, and token scoping for MCP tools.

Required
Skills
:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Machine Learning, or related field OR equivalent professional experience
• 3+ years in AI/ML or software engineering
• 1 year setting up and operating MCP servers
• 1 year developing and deploying bots to optimize business processes
• Strong Python skills; familiarity with AI/ML frameworks (PyTorch, Tensor Flow)
• MCP architecture expertise (providers/tools, resource servers, authentication/secrets)
• Hands-on experience with GenAI and agentic AI systems
• RAG implementation
• AWS operations (API Gateway, Lambda, S3, Open Search, Cloud Watch, KMS) or equivalent experience in Azure/Google Cloud
• Robotic Process Automation (RPA) development experience
• CI/CD pipelines with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Structured logging and compliance-driven design

Preferred
Skills
:

• Experience mapping prototypes to cloud architectures
• Familiarity with Open Search Serverless in Gov Cloud
• Certifications:
  
  AWS ML Specialty, AWS Security Specialty
• Prior work in air-gapped environments with zero public egress
• Ability to design and implement LLM-based bots with robust dialog management and context handling
• Hands-on UiPath development experience
• Strong interpersonal skills for collaboration across internal and external stakeholders

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SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do.

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