Contract role
Job Title: AI/ML & Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Experience: 8+ Years
Employment Type: C2C (Corp-to-Corp)
Work Mode: Onsite – 5 Days/Week
Locations: Minneapolis, MN / Chicago, IL / New York, NY / Texas / Tampa, FL (Candidate can be based at any of these TCS office locations)
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced AI/ML & Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) with 8+ years of experience to design, develop, and deploy enterprise-scale AI/ML and GenAI solutions. The ideal candidate will combine strong software engineering skills with AI/ML expertise and work closely with business stakeholders to deliver production-ready AI solutions.
The role requires working onsite from any of the TCS office locations in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, Texas, or Tampa, five days a week.
Key Responsibilities
Forward Deployment & Customer Engagement
Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify AI/ML opportunities.
Translate business problems into scalable AI solutions.
Lead technical discovery sessions, workshops, and solution design.
Deploy pilot solutions and continuously improve them based on customer feedback.
AI/ML Engineering
Build and optimize machine learning models for classification, regression, forecasting, NLP, and anomaly detection.
Perform feature engineering, model evaluation, hyperparameter tuning, and performance optimization.
Develop robust testing and validation strategies.
GenAI & LLM Engineering
Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.
Develop prompt engineering strategies and LLM integrations.
Implement guardrails, hallucination reduction, evaluation frameworks, and monitoring.
MLOps / LLMOps
Deploy AI solutions using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
Implement model versioning, monitoring, drift detection, and automated retraining.
Maintain production-grade AI systems.
API & Systems Integration
Develop REST APIs and microservices.
Integrate AI solutions into enterprise platforms.
Work with Azure API Management, OAuth2/JWT authentication, and enterprise integration patterns.
Technical Leadership
Mentor engineering teams.
Conduct design reviews and establish engineering best practices.
Produce architecture documentation and reusable accelerators.
Required Skills
Programming
Python
ReactJS (Primary) or Angular
REST API Development (FastAPI, Spring Boot, Node.js)
AI/ML & GenAI
Azure OpenAI/OpenAI APIs
LangChain
Semantic Kernel
RAG Architecture
Prompt Engineering
Vector Databases (Pinecone, Azure AI Search)
Cloud
Microsoft Azure
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Azure Functions
Azure App Services
Azure Storage
Cosmos DB
Databases
SQL
MongoDB / Cosmos DB
DevOps
Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Security
OAuth2
JWT
RBAC
Encryption
Secure API Design
Preferred Skills
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, Bicep)
Azure ML
MLflow
Kubeflow
Databricks
Spark
SageMaker
Vertex AI
Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
Weaviate
Milvus
Healthcare domain experience
Experience
8+ years of software engineering experience.
Hands-on experience building and deploying AI/ML and GenAI applications in production.
Strong stakeholder communication and customer-facing experience.
Experience working in Agile environments.
Job Details
Client: TCS
Employment Type: C2C
Work Location: Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, Texas, or Tampa (Any TCS office location)
Work Mode: 100% Onsite
Schedule: 5 Days a Week from Office
To apply for this job email your details to colin.i@mind-graph.com