Artificial Intelligence Specialist - GenAI technical lead (Charlotte)

Job Title : Artificial Intelligence Specialist - GenAI technical lead

Location : Charlotte, NC (Onsite / Hybrid - 2 days in a week) - Only locals

Employment Type : Contract / Contract-To-Hire

About Smart IT Frame :

At Smart IT Frame , we connect top talent with leading organizations across the USA. With over a decade of staffing excellence, we specialize in IT, healthcare, and professional roles, empowering both clients and candidates to grow together.

Overview :

We are seeking an experienced Generative AI Technical Lead to architect design and deliver cuttingedge AI solutions across text image audio and video generation The ideal candidate will have handson expertise in LLMs Agentic AI LangChain and modern AI frameworks along with strong cloud deployment and MLOps experience

Technical Leadership

oMentor engineering teams on LLM finetuning prompt engineering and multimodal AI

oDefine best practices for AI model deployment scalability and performance optimization

Development Integration

oBuild pipelines for data ingestion model training and inference optimization

oImplement CICD for AI workflows and ensure robust MLOps practices

Innovation Research

oStay updated on emerging Gen AI technologies frameworks and tools

oEvaluate and integrate opensource and commercial AI platforms

Required Technical Skills

Generative AI Expertise

oText GPT LLaMA Claude Hugging Face Transformers

oImage Stable Diffusion DALLE Midjourney

oAudio OpenAI Whisper AudioLM

oVideo RunwayML Pika Labs

Agentic AI Orchestration

oLangChain LlamaIndex AutoGen CrewAI

Cloud Platforms

oAWS SageMaker Bedrock Azure ML GCP Vertex AI

Databases

oSQLNoSQL Vector DBs Pinecone Milvus Weaviate

Deployment MLOps

oDocker Kubernetes Helm MLflow Kubeflow

Programming

oPython PyTorch TensorFlow JavaGo for backend services

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with multimodal AI texttoimage texttovideo
• Knowledge of GPU acceleration distributed training and model quantization
• Familiarity with responsible AI principles and data governance

Mandatory Skills : AI / GenAI Research