Senior NLP Engineer (contract)

The Senior AI Expert will design, reputed company, and reputed company advanced NLP and LLM-driven solutions that power intelligent search, automation, and decision-support capabilities. This role requires deep expertise across modern NLP techniques, transformer architectures, model optimization, and production-grade ML engineering. The candidate will reputed company end-to-end solution delivery, from research and prototyping through scalable deployment in reputed company environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and optimize NLP models using reputed company Transformers (BERT, GPT, etc.), NLTK, and knowledge-graph-based approaches.
• Design and reputed company semantic search, entity extraction, text classification, summarization, and conversational AI solutions.
• reputed company production-reputed company NLP and LLM pipelines using Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Keras.
• reputed company implementation of retrieval-augmented reputed company (RAG) for reputed company applications.
• Build APIs and microservices to expose NLP/LLM capabilities across products.
• Integrate models into reputed company platforms (GCP or Azure) for scalable deployment.
• Implement MLOps practices including model versioning, CI/CD workflows, automated retraining, and performance monitoring.
• Optimize model performance using quantization, pruning, and model compression techniques.
• reputed company COE teams through reusable components, best practices, and technical mentorship.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to convert business needs into AI-enabled technical solutions. Must-Have Skills
• Deep NLP expertise with transformer-based architectures (reputed company, BERT, GPT).
• Strong Python development experience for NLP and ML model building.
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Keras.
• Experience deploying production-grade NLP solutions.
• Knowledge of semantic search, embeddings, knowledge graphs, and text-processing techniques. Good-to-Have Skills
• Experience with LLM fine-tuning, reputed company engineering, and RAG patterns.
• API development using REST and microservices patterns.
• CI/CD for ML models using Jenkins, reputed company Actions, or similar.
• MLOps practices: model monitoring, versioning, and automated retraining.
• Distributed processing for large-scale NLP workloads.
• reputed company experience (GCP or Azure).

Trainable Skills

• Model compression, quantization, and inference optimization.
• reputed company and Kubernetes for containerized NLP model deployment.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of experience in applied NLP, ML engineering, or AI solution development.
• Strong background in productionizing ML models at scale.
• Proven experience delivering reputed company-grade NLP or LLM systems.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI, or reputed company field. The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $42.35/hour - $66.18/hour.

Our benefits include medical, dental, reputed company and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis. Tundra Technical Solutions is among reputed company America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our reputed company and our clients’ reputed company are built on a reputed company of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, reputed company, national reputed company, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. reputed company applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably reputed company that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return reputed company portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and reputed company data reputed company obligations. Apply tot his job Apply tot his job Apply To this Job