Front End AI Engineer

Job Title: Front End AI EngineerDuration: Contract to hireLocation: RemoteRequired Pay Scale: $90-$100/hr W2 (No C2C!!)***Due to client requirements this role is only open to USC or GC candidates*** Job Summary:The AI Front End Engineer will build and support a mission‑critical agentic AI platform by developing high‑performance React/TypeScript interfaces, integrating multi‑step LLM workflows, and delivering production‑grade front‑end features that interact with Java‑based backend services. This role ensures reliability, scalability, and seamless user experience across a next‑generation AI automation environment. The engineer will design UI components, integrate AI agents, optimize front‑end performance, and work closely with AI/ML, backend, and cloud engineering teams to deliver intelligent, low‑latency workflows in a fast‑paced engineering organization.Project Details:This position supports a large‑scale AI engineering initiative focused on building an enterprise‑grade agentic automation platform. The engineer will work on front‑end architecture, LLM/agent integrations, real‑time data visualization, CI/CD deployments, and cloud‑native delivery (GCP preferred). The team is currently expanding its AI agent capabilities and needs someone with strong React/TypeScript depth, Java familiarity, and hands‑on experience creating and deploying AI‑driven workflows. The engineer will collaborate across AI, platform, and backend teams to ship new features, improve performance, and ensure stable, secure, and scalable front‑end experiences.***Due to client requirements this role is only open to USC or GC candidates***Must HavesHands‑on AI agent development — experience building agentic workflows using LangChain, LangGraph, MCP, or similar orchestration frameworks5+ years AI/ML engineering — production‑grade LLM, RAG, or ML system developmentStrong React + TypeScript engineering — modern component patterns, state management, real‑time UI, and performance optimizationJava experience — enterprise or production use (Java 18 preferred)CI/CD pipeline experience — GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent for deploying front‑end and full‑stack featuresCloud engineering experience — GCP preferred; AWS or Azure acceptableLLM integration experience — connecting front‑end workflows to LLM reasoning, retrieval, and agent outputsRAG pipeline familiarity — grounding LLM responses with vector stores, embeddings, and retrieval flowsReal‑time data visualization — WebSockets, charts, dashboards, or interactive telemetry viewsAgile engineering collaboration — working with AI/ML, backend, and platform teams to ship features quickly***Due to client requirements this role is only open to USC or GC candidates***Desired SkillsExperience with multi‑agent architectures — designing agent collaboration patterns, state machines, and tool‑calling flowsAdvanced RAG pipeline design — embeddings, re‑ranking, vector DB tuning, and grounding strategiesStrong UI/UX intuition — building intuitive workflows, dashboards, and interactive AI‑driven interfacesReal‑time visualization frameworks — Plotly, Recharts, D3.js, or similar charting librariesBackend integration experience — connecting React front‑ends to Java APIs, microservices, and event‑driven systemsPerformance tuning for LLM‑powered UIs — caching, streaming responses, and optimizing latencyContainerization and cloud‑native delivery — Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud deployment patternsMonitoring and observability familiarity — OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar toolingSecurity best practices — JWT/OAuth, secure API integration, and front‑end hardeningExperience with modern state management — Redux Toolkit, Zustand, or equivalentComfort working in fast‑moving AI product teams — rapid iteration, experimentation, and cross‑functional collaboration***Due to client requirements this role is only open to USC or GC candidates*** About Matlen SilverExperience Matters. Let your experience be driven by our experience. For more than 40 years, Matlen Silver has delivered solutions for complex talent and technology needs to Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Led by hard work, honesty, and a trusted team of experts, we can say that Matlen Silver technology has created a solutions experience and legacy of success that is the difference in the way the world works. Matlen Silver is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, the presence of a non-job-related medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application or at any point in the hiring process, please contact us at email and/or phone at: info@matlensilver.com // 908-393-8600