AI Engineer
Miami, FL
Hybrid Role
$70 - $80 per hour

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our client, a leading enterprise cruise line, is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join their growing team in Miami, FL. This role is focused on building and scaling AI-powered recommendation products that drive guest personalization, pricing, and revenue optimization. As a Senior AI Engineer, you will operate at the intersection of AI/ML and software engineering, leveraging your expertise to turn models and prototypes into robust, scalable production applications. You will play a key role in evolving recommendation-engine initiatives from early-stage solutions and MVPs into enterprise-grade products used across the business. This is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive the evolution of AI products, and make a significant impact on the guest experience and business outcomes.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design, build, and enhance production-grade AI-powered recommendation systems
• Translate AI/ML models and prototypes into scalable, reliable software solutions
• Develop production-quality applications and services, primarily using Python
• Build and operationalize AI/ML solutions within Databricks environments
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and version-control practices
• Integrate LLMs, predictive models, business logic, and behavioral data into recommendation workflows
• Utilize AI-assisted development tools and coding agents to accelerate engineering and problem solving
• Collaborate with AI Engineers, Data Scientists, and business stakeholders to translate business objectives into technical solutions
• Improve system scalability, reliability, maintainability, and performance as AI products mature
• Independently troubleshoot problems and drive technical solutions from concept through production

WHAT YOU BRING

• 4–5+ years of relevant software, AI/ML, or data engineering experience with demonstrated senior-level engineering maturity
• Strong Python development skills and experience writing production-quality code
• Hands-on experience building and operationalizing AI/ML solutions in production
• Experience with Databricks and modern data/AI environments
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including CI/CD, automated deployment pipelines, Git/source control, testing, modular design, and production monitoring
• Experience integrating machine learning models into applications, services, or production workflows
• Ability to independently solve ambiguous technical problems and align solutions with business objectives
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience building recommendation engines, personalization platforms, or propensity models (preferred)
• Experience combining LLMs with traditional machine learning and business-rule systems (preferred)
• Understanding of Data Science workflows and common ML modeling approaches (preferred)
• Experience scaling prototypes or MVPs into enterprise-grade applications (preferred)
• Experience with cloud-based AI architectures and APIs/services for production ML applications (preferred)
• Familiarity with coding agents and AI-assisted development tools (preferred)