Artificial Intelligence Engineer

AI Engineer | Charlotte | Onsite 4 days per week.$150,000Take ownership of a live conversational AI system used every day by real customers, and shape where it goes next.My client is an established fleet management software company. Their AI assistant answers plain-English questions about vehicles, drivers and safety events, built on a LangGraph agent running on Azure.What you'll doOwn and extend the chat pipeline: guardrails, tool routing, the agent and responsesSupport the system in production and improve latency, quality and telemetryImprove retrieval with PostgreSQL and pgvectorBuild evaluation, cost controls and security guardrailsWhat you'll bring3+ years building backend services in productionAt least one LLM feature shipped to real usersStrong async Python, with strict typingLangChain, LangGraph or a similar agent framework, with tool callingSolid PostgreSQLExperience diagnosing live issues from traces and metricsNice to haveAzure, Terraform, NeMo Guardrails, RAG at scale, React and TypeScriptApply below or message me directly.