Sr. AI Engineer (Contract, Part-time)

Lapis AI Consults is seeking a Sr. AI Engineer (contract, remote, Part-Time).

You will be responsible for maintaining existing complex ML and LLM-based applications, as well as developing and maintaining new ones.

Qualifications

• Strong background in Computer Science and Software Development
• Experience with complex RAG pipelines (without using Langchain or LlamaIndex)
• Tech stack includes: Foundation and open-source LLMs, vector databases (Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate), embeddings, Next.js, Vercel, MongoDB, Cohere reranking, multimodal parsing (e.g., Unstructured.io)

This is a project-based, part-time, contract role.

Must provide work samples (GitHub).

Must be based in US, UK, CA, or EU, and able to work EST and PST hours.

Responsibilities

• Work with the latest AI tools and technologies, including LLMs, MLLMs, voice and vision models, and more.
• Stay updated on AI trends and incorporate new approaches.
• Build new AI applications and maintain existing RAG-based applications built on a proprietary RAG pipeline.

About Lapis

Lapis is a full-service AI consultancy that builds products with a business-first mindset, offering opportunities to understand client challenges and contribute to impactful solutions.