Lead AI Engineer
Charlotte, NC
Category: Development
Industry: Communications
Standard Hours: Open
Reference ID: JN -082026-108270
Date Posted: 09/11/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/TncV2d
Description:
Hybrid 4/1 in Charlotte, NC
Our client seeks a Lead AI Engineer to guide IVR and conversational AI initiatives and to design scalable LLM and NLP solutions for high-volume customer interactions. The role will drive architecture, best practices, and innovation across voice AI systems while contributing as an individual contributor and mentoring a distributed team.
This is a contract to hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $70.00 to $80.00/hr. w2
Responsibilities:
- Architect and develop AI-driven IVR and conversational systems using Python.
- Build NLP models for text classification and clustering to support intent detection and call routing.
- Perform data analysis using SQL on large-scale IVR and interaction datasets.
- Design and deploy LLM workflows, including prompt engineering, RAG, and evaluation for voice and chat use cases.
- Lead development of agentic AI workflows for multi-step customer interactions.
- Establish LLMOps best practices for monitoring, evaluation, and lifecycle management.
- Partner with IVR platform, speech engineering, and product teams.
- Mentor offshore and junior AI engineers.
Experience Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in AI and ML with pre-LLM era exposure.
- Strong proficiency in Python.
- Proven expertise in NLP, including text classification and clustering.
- Strong experience in data analysis using SQL.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, including prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
- Good to have: experience with agentic AI and multi-agent orchestration.
- Good to have: experience with LLMOps or MLOps in production environments.
- Good to have: familiarity with IVR platforms and speech technologies such as ASR, NLU, and TTS.
- Tools and libraries: NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers, NLTK, Sentence-Transformers, LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI SDK, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Oracle, MySQL, SQLAlchemy, FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, MLflow, Weights & Biases, BentoML, Airflow.
Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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