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You'll own structured extraction and classification systems that turn messy real-world inputs (email, HTML, PDFs, images) into reliable product data, with measurable quality gates, evals, and cost control. You'll work on Firebase / GCP-style backends with product, mobile, and QA. We want someone who has shipped LLM apps for real users, not demos. You should be strong across modern LLMs and especially fluent with Google Gemini (multimodal prompts, structured outputs, failure modes, and cost/latency tradeoffs), with solid experience on other major providers too. If you can hit hard quality targets, keep dollars-per-run honest, and leave runbooks another engineer can pick up, we want to talk.\nAbout Us\nBolder Apps is a product development studio that partners with US-based startups and established companies to build and scale innovative digital products. We specialize in AI-powered development, full-cycle product creation, and engineering team augmentation. Our mission is simple: build bolder, faster, and smarter.\nOur Culture & Values (read before applying)\nWe move fast. We take ownership. We work with AI, not against it. And we expect everyone to bring ideas, not wait for instructions.\nThere are no daily checklists, no micromanagement, and no corporate politics. Instead, you'll have autonomy, trust, and a team that's always ready to help you grow. At Bolder Apps, impact matters more than titles, and curiosity matters more than seniority.\nIf you want a place where you can level up fast and actually see your work making a difference - welcome aboard.\nRequirements\nResponsibilities\nOwn production LLM pipelines end to end: ingestion, multimodal model calls, structured records, and storage, including confidence flags, retries, and idempotent rescans\nDesign prompt and schema strategies (including schema-aligned or constrained outputs) so results are consistent and product-ready\nBuild classification and filtering layers on top of extraction (taxonomy mapping, demographic or audience filters, deduplication, and related cleanup logic)\nDefine and run evaluation harnesses (golden sets, regression suites, online metrics) so quality does not regress when prompts, models, or parsers change\nHit and report against hard quality targets (precision-style gates for completeness, duplicates, incorrect inclusions, image presence, and similar product SLAs)\nOptimize token usage, model tiering, caching, and batching to keep dollars-per-run and latency under control\nHarden reliability for long-running async jobs (timeouts, partial recovery, memory limits, safe production deploys)\nPartner with Flutter / mobile and QA on field contracts, review queues, and incident debugging\nDocument architecture and runbooks so ownership is shared, not a single point of failure\nStay current on Gemini and peer LLM APIs; recommend when to swap models, add fallbacks (e.g. document AI), or tighten schemas\nShipped LLM applications in production (not demos only): prompts, structured outputs, retries, observability, and real failure handling\nStrong hands-on experience with Google Gemini, including multimodal (text + image / document-style) workflows and structured extraction\nPractical experience with at least one other major LLM stack (OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar) and good judgment on when to use which\nStructured extraction from messy inputs: HTML, PDFs, images, and mixed email-like content\nClassification / taxonomy systems on top of LLM outputs\nEvaluation discipline: offline evals, regression suites, and production quality metrics tied to clear acceptance criteria\nCost and latency awareness: token budgeting, cheaper tiers, caching, batching; can explain dollars-per-run tradeoffs to a PM\nPython backend experience on serverless cloud (Cloud Functions or equivalent) and document stores (e.g. Firestore) or similar GCP patterns\nEnglish at C1 or above for client-adjacent debugging with a PM\nUS hours overlap through roughly 5 PM EST when live coordination is needed\nOwnership habits: honest estimates, early blockers, finished releases\nNice to have\nSchema-aligned LLM frameworks (BAML, Instructor, Outlines, or similar)\nGoogle Document AI or other OCR / document intelligence as a fallback path\nGmail API / OAuth products and restricted-scope compliance familiarity\nComputer vision for product-image quality checks\nFirebase + GCP ops (secrets, regions, schedulers, cost monitoring)\nBuilding eval corpora from real production data and iterating until contractual SLAs pass\nAgency or multi-client studio experience\nBenefits\nFully remote and async-friendly, with required overlap through ~5 PM EST when client or release coordination needs it\nMonthly retainer structure with recurring AI pipeline work for engineers who keep production quality and cost honest\nReal autonomy over how you structure prompts, schemas, evals, and deploys. 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