Senior Software Engineer

4 days ago


Boston, MA, United States Saviance Full time
Senior Software Engineer - AI & Data Engineering
Location: Boston, MA (Onsite every Thursday)

About BigRio

BigRio is a Boston-based technology consulting firm specializing in AI/ML, data engineering, custom software development, and digital transformation, with a strong focus on the healthcare and life sciences domains. We partner with leading organizations to deliver cutting-edge, secure, and scalable solutions that drive innovation, improve efficiency, and create measurable business impact. Our team brings deep expertise in emerging technologies such as Generative AI, cloud platforms, and data-driven automation, helping clients transform their operations while ensuring compliance with industry regulations.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with strong expertise in AI and Data Engineering. This position emphasizes hands-on technical execution, contributions to team success, cross-functional collaboration, and mentorship, with a strong focus on Generative AI, LLM integrations, and AI-enhanced workflows.

Responsibilities

50% - Technical Execution
  • Contribute to clear and precise technical design specifications, focusing on GenAI system integration and AI-driven workflows.
  • Deliver high-quality AI-powered components and services while ensuring security, performance, scalability, and automation best practices.
  • Estimate development tasks in story points, factoring in LLM inference latency and API rate limits.
  • Adhere to coding conventions, architectures, and best practices for GenAI applications, prompt engineering, and RAG models.
  • Write, debug, and deploy production-ready code, ensuring quick fixes for GenAI APIs, embeddings, and microservices.
  • Integrate and optimize tools/frameworks such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Hugging Face, LangChain, and LlamaIndex.
  • Utilize vector databases ( Pinecone, FAISS, ChromaDB) for similarity search and retrieval pipelines.
  • Meet sprint "Definition of Done (DOD)" including:
  • Unit and functional testing
  • LLM benchmarking (BLEU, ROUGE, cosine similarity)
  • Model validation & API optimization (temperature, top-k, tokens)
  • Code reviews, bug fixes, and documentation
  • Responsible AI & governance compliance
30% - Team Contributions
  • Learn domain-specific AI applications in automation, search, and decision support.
  • Own AI-driven product features with ongoing model improvement and fine-tuning.
  • Actively engage in agile ceremonies with an AI-first mindset.
  • Volunteer for GenAI-related backlog items, such as:
  • RAG model refinement
  • Prompt engineering enhancements
  • LLM evaluation and response tuning
  • Participate in scrum (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) with focus on iterative AI model scaling.
  • Promote self-organization and effective GenAI adoption across teams.
10% - Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Work closely with Technology, Product, AI/ML, and DevOps teams to align AI solutions with business outcomes.
  • Partner with AI engineers, data scientists, and cloud architects to optimize LLM-based solutions.
  • Ensure compliance with AI governance, privacy, HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2, and ethical AI standards.
10% - Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing
  • Train and mentor developers on GenAI integration, API usage, embeddings, and vector search.
  • Guide team members in prompt engineering, RAG optimizations, and API latency improvements.
  • Encourage use of AI-powered developer workflows (Copilot, AI-driven testing, code generation).
Education, Experience & Skills
  • 5-10 years in engineering roles with exposure to AI/ML.
  • Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • Strong background in software engineering with AI/GenAI model integration.
  • Proficiency in Python (preferred for AI work).
  • Familiarity with Unix/Linux, Big Data, SQL, NoSQL, and AI pipelines.
  • Hands-on experience with OpenAI GPT, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, LlamaIndex.
  • Exposure to RAG models, embeddings, similarity search, and vector databases (FAISS, Pinecone, ChromaDB).
  • Experience deploying AI solutions on AWS or Azure OpenAI.
  • Strong knowledge of AI evaluation metrics (BLEU, ROUGE, BERT Score, cosine similarity).
  • Agile environment experience preferred.
Behaviors & Abilities
  • Strong ability to design and implement AI-powered solutions that enhance software functionality.
  • Analytical problem-solver skilled in debugging and optimizing AI-generated responses.
  • Collaborative mindset to work across engineering, DevOps, and AI/ML functions.
  • Deep knowledge of AI-driven feature development, prompt engineering, and embedding optimizations.
  • Capable of evaluating AI outputs for bias, accuracy, and compliance.
  • Curious, eager to explore new AI models, frameworks, and best practices for scalable GenAI deployment.


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