Senior Engineering Consultant- AI/LLM

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In this role as a Sr Engr in the Tech Strategy & Planning team for Enterprise Architecture team, you'll be managing multiple programs designed to help GTS move towards its strategic objectives. You will be a key contributor in planning and building Engineering Excellence deliverables, and ensuring the smooth and successful execution of initiatives by coordinating with cross-functional teams. Your expertise will help us solve complex problems and find unique solutions to optimize the development landscape of our organization. Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Technology Road-mapping: Develop and maintain a technology roadmap that aligns with the organization's strategic goals and evolving industry trends.
• Engaging with Technology, Business stakeholders and Senior Leadership to drive product roadmap, define the priorities and deliver products with best quality for a high scale use.
• Working closely with the Architects and cross functional teams to ensure overall architecture and design are aligned with Industry’s best practices.
• Innovation and Research: Stay updated on emerging technologies, assess their relevance to the business, and propose innovative solutions.
• Vendor and Partner Management: Evaluate and manage relationships with technology vendors and partners to ensure they support the organization's strategic objectives.
• Work closely with process experts to analyze and design solutions based on business requirements.

Where you will be working...

In this hybrid role, you will have a defined work location that includes work from homeand assigned office days set by your manager.

You get excited by the possibilities that technology creates and how it can improve people’s lives. Applying your analytical skills and expertise to solve complex problems is personally rewarding. No stranger to working in a fast-paced environment, you convey a sense of urgency and balance multiple opposing priorities with ease, never missing a deadline.

You’ll need to have:

• A Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Six or more years of experience in AI, LLM architecture, and advanced RAG and LLM system design.
• Core AI & LLM Expertise: Proven success designing, building, and deploying end-to-end Generative AI solutions (both Agentic and non-Agentic AI) tailored to specific Verizon use cases.
• Frameworks & Operationalization: Deep knowledge of frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, and LangSmith, as well as LLMOps, data pipelines, and infrastructure needed to operationalize Generative AI.
• System Design & Data Engineering: Strong command of data preprocessing, prompt management, caching, validation, advanced RAG, RLHF, and success metrics.
• Prototyping & Data Transformation: Expertise in leveraging cutting-edge LLM techniques to convert large volumes of unstructured data into structured formats, alongside building scalable LLM and NLP prototypes critical to product lines.
• Enterprise Delivery: Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise information management solutions to large end-user bases.
• Automation & Business Process: In-depth grasp of automation and AI technologies applied to business operations, including identifying new process opportunities and evaluating technical feasibility.
• Research & Communication: Strong self-directed research skills to keep pace with GenAI developments, matched with excellent communication skills to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Hands-on experience with vector databases, embedding models, and text processing techniques.
• Familiarity with graph database concepts.
• Experience working with modern data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or Cloudera.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.