AI Engineer / Developer- (Model Tuning & Applied AI) - Onsite

Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.CGS Business Solutions provided pay rangeThis range is provided by CGS Business Solutions. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.Base pay range$75,000.00/yr - $80,000.00/yrCGS Business Solutions is committed to helping you, as an esteemed IT Professional, find the next right step in your career. We match professionals like you to rewarding consulting or full-time opportunities in your area of expertise. We are currently seeking Technical Professionals who are searching for challenging and rewarding jobs for the following opportunity:Our client in Orange County, CA, an innovative leader with specialty in the Military/DoD space is seeking an entry-level AI Engineer to join their team. This is a contract-to-hire role designed for someone with a strong coding foundation and a fire in the belly to grow into applied AI engineering.We welcome candidates from non-traditional backgrounds—whether you're a self-taught programmer, college student, or early-career developer—as long as you can demonstrate your ability. Past projects, code samples, GitHub repos, or even a live coding demo will be part of the evaluation process.What You'll DoFine-tune and adapt models from Anthropic and open-source/local ecosystems (e.g., LLaMA, Mistral, Stable Diffusion)Build and optimize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines for text and image applicationsCreate internal AI tools and APIs to deliver real business outcomesManage training and inference workloads on cloud GPUs (Azure, AWS, etc.)Experiment with efficiency techniques (LoRA, quantization, adapters)Prepare datasets and evaluate models with a focus on applied performanceWhat We're Looking ForProven AI coding ability (Node.js or React helpful)Willingness to show past projects or share live codeExposure to (or strong interest in learning) PyTorch, Hugging Face, TensorFlowCuriosity about model tuning, embeddings, and RAG systemsFamiliarity with Azure cloud services or other cloud GPU platformsCreative problem solver who can learn fast and adaptA builder's mindset—we value drive, not just degreesWhy This RoleOpportunity to break into AI engineering with hands-on mentoringWork with both frontier AI models (Anthropic) and local open-source modelsReal-world projects across text, image, and applied tool creationGrow quickly in a fast-paced, outcome-driven environmentJ-18808-Ljbffr