Job Description
An AI Consulting firm is looking for an GenAI Innovation Engineer/GenAI Forward Deployed Engineer for greenfield product development. They will be building industry-specific AI solutions (Healthcare, BFSI) from scratch. The goal is to create reusable frameworks that the company can coinvest in with pilot customers. This team is building a “start up” within the company to be the GenAI brains of Perficient. They are hiring the smartest, most creative, “out of the box” thinkers, and passionate AI individuals to join their “incubator” team. This will be an “incubator” filled with GenAI engineers, GenAI Product Managers, etc. that will research and brainstorm the latest and greatest GenAI technologies and services so that they can recommend what Perficient should go to market with. There will be a lot of brainstorming, prototyping, and fun conversations. Personality is KEY here. They will also be joining customer meetings as the technical POC to help solve customers’ problems. The day to day will be 60% Hands-on Engineering: Building production-grade AI/ML pipelines and reusable frameworks, 20% Research, 20% Architecture & Strategy: Designing for scalability—turning a specific client solution into a reusable products.
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Required Skills & Experience
• 1-10 years of experience within Data Science and more recent experience with GenAI
• Soft skills: adaptable, creative, determined, pragmatic, curious, external passion, entrepreneurial, scrappy, non-traditional thinker, positive temperament, comfortable wearing multiple hats, dreamer, emotional intelligence.
• Ability to: Rapidly prototype and build agentic solutions, Co-develop code with client engineering teams, Translate abstract requirements into functional software, Integrate AI models into business workflows, Refine solutions based on real-time feedback, Rapid delivery of functional AI MVPs, High-value, scalable intellectual property assets, Validated technical feasibility of AI concepts, Client readiness for operational ownership.
• Day-To-Day Responsibilities:
o 60% Hands-on Engineering: Building production-grade AI/ML pipelines and reusable frameworks
o 20% Research
o 20% Architecture & Strategy: Designing for scalability—turning a specific client solution into a reusable product
o Note: We need builders, not requirements gatherers and this is a 100% client facing role
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
• Github that shows what personal coding projects they do on free time
• Masters or PHD in Data Science
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.