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Trident Consulting

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

On site

Concord, United states

$ 80 /hour

Senior

Freelance

19-02-2026

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Skills

Leadership Incident Response CI/CD Kubernetes Monitoring Agile methodologies Architecture Azure cloud platforms Agile Analytics GCP Langchain OpenShift

Job Specifications

We’re hiring for a “AI Engineer ” role in “Concord, CA” with one of our industry-leading clients. This is a long-term opportunity, with competitive pay, and the team is actively scheduling interviews.

Job Title: AI Engineer

Location: Concord, CA

Employment Type: Contract (Only W2)

Job Description:

Advanced Hands-on Development: Serve as a senior individual contributor and subject matter expert on your team. Write clean, scalable, and robust code for the most complex components of the application, particularly those involving AI orchestration.
Technical Design and Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Principal Engineers to translate high-level architecture into detailed technical designs for specific services and components. Ensure your team's work aligns with the overall technical strategy.
Framework Implementation: Build and deploy sophisticated GenAI applications utilizing modern frameworks such as ADK, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, and Semantic Kernel.
Operational Excellence: Take ownership of the operational health of the services your team builds, including monitoring, performance tuning, and incident response in a multi-cloud environment (GCP, Azure, OCP).

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Required Qualifications:

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a background in building and shipping production-grade software.
Strong, hands-on experience developing solutions with Generative AI, LLMs, and associated technologies.
Proficiency in building applications using AI orchestration frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar.
Solid experience developing and deploying applications on major cloud platforms (GCP, Azure) and/or container platforms (OpenShift, Kubernetes).
Excellent understanding of software engineering best practices, including agile methodologies, testing, and CI/CD.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

Trident Consulting is a premier IT staffing firm providing high-impact workforce solutions to Fortune 500 and mid-market clients. Since 2005, we’ve specialized in sourcing elite technology and engineering talent for contract, direct hire, and managed services roles. Our expertise spans cloud, AI/ML, cybersecurity, and data analytics, supported by a 3M+ candidate database and a 78% fill ratio. With a highly engaged leadership team and a reputation for delivering hard-to-fill, niche talent, we help organizations build agile, high-performing teams that drive innovation and business success. Learn more: tridentconsultinginc.com.

About the Company

Trident Consulting is a 100% Women and Minority-owned staffing company, headquartered in San Ramon, CA. We specialize in placing high-quality vetted technology and engineering professionals in contract and full-time roles. Trident shines in filling niche/hard to find technical skills, and our commitment is to deliver the best and brightest individuals in the industry for our clients toughest requirements. We are big on Diversity! We truly believe the United States is a land of opportunity and equality, and are committed t... Know more