GenAI Engineer – Lead Position Available In New York, New York

GenAI Engineer – Lead
Edison, NJ; Montvale, New Jersey, United States
Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Summary:

At the client, our people in software and product innovation focus on developing cutting-edge software solutions and driving product innovation to meet the evolving needs of clients. These individuals combine technical experience with creative thinking to deliver innovative software products and solutions. Those in software engineering will focus on developing innovative software solutions to drive digital transformation and enhance business performance. In this field, you will use your knowledge to design, code, and test cutting-edge applications that revolutionise industries and deliver exceptional user experiences.
Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
Analyze and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
Effectively mentor others.
Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm’s code of conduct, and independence requirements.

The Opportunity:

As part of the Software and Product Innovation team you will design and deploy AI-powered solutions that are scalable, user-friendly, and integrated within real-world applications. As a Manager you will lead teams and manage client accounts, focusing on strategic planning and mentoring junior staff while maintaining project success and upholding exceptional standards.
Join us to shape the future with AI and innovation, as we embed AI, automation, and advanced engineering into everything we do, delivering smarter, faster, and bolder solutions that drive real world impact. In Commercial Technology & Innovation (CT&I), we’re not just building solutions we’re reshaping the future of business. As the tech engine behind the client’s Advisory platforms, we embed AI, automation, and cutting-edge engineering into everything we do, delivering smarter, faster, and bolder solutions that drive real world impact. Our mission is to power possibility working with bold thinkers to turn vision into reality and transform industries at scale. We’re looking for passionate, curious, and purpose driven engineers who want to make a difference. If you’re ready to innovate with intent, drive business outcomes, and help lead the AI-enabled transformation of one of the world’s most trusted organizations, your journey starts here.

Responsibilities:

Manage client relationships and confirm project deliverables meet expectations
Work with cross-functional teams to integrate AI into applications
Drive strategic planning initiatives to enhance project outcomes
Uphold exceptional standards of quality and innovation in deliverables
Identify and leverage opportunities for technological advancements
Inspire and motivate teams to achieve excellence in their work

What You Must Have:

Bachelor’s Degree
5 years of experience Designing, training, and deploying machine learning models and Large Language Models (LLMs) into production environments
Developing scalable, cloud-native microservices using tools like Docker and Kubernetes
Building end-to-end AI applications integrated into web, mobile, or API-frst platforms
Managing CI/CD pipelines and observability for AI systems using tools such as GitHub Actions and MLfow
Implementing vector databases, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, and orchestration tools like LangChain and LlamaIndex
Building and integrating multi-agent frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, LangFlow) to enable autonomous AI task execution
Translating complex business problems into software-engineered AI solutions aligned with industry standard practices
Deploying on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and leveraging services such as SageMaker, Vertex AI, or Databricks
Being proficient in Python and ML frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Hugging Face Transformers
Working in cross-functional engineering environments including front-end (React, Next.js) and platform teams
Being familiar with LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, etc.) and working with chat/image based model outputs
Having hands-on experience with agent-based frameworks for intelligent orchestration
What Sets You Apart
Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Software Engineering, Data Processing/Analytics/Science, or Machine Learning preferred
Delivering AI applications using RAG, vector databases, and agent-based frameworks
Working with multimodal inputs and outputs
Fine-tuning models on domain-specific data
Applying Responsible AI practices including governance and ethics
Maintaining consistency and quality in model outputs
Contributing to open-source projects or AI/ML publications
Demonstrating versatile development experience across layers
Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.