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This person will own complex technical work from concept through deployment, mentor other engineers, and help define best practices for building reliable, observable, and secure AI systems.\nEssential Responsibilities\nDesign, build, and deploy production GenAI systems, including LLM applications, agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and AI-powered search capabilities.\nArchitect scalable AI services using modern ML frameworks, model-serving tools, APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.\nDevelop and optimize retrieval systems using embeddings, vector databases, semantic search, reranking, and structured data sources.\nFine-tune, adapt, and evaluate LLMs for domain-specific use cases using prompt engineering, supervised fine-tuning, LoRA / QLoRA, or related methods.\nBuild automated evaluation frameworks to measure model quality, prompt performance, retrieval accuracy, reasoning reliability, latency, and cost.\nImplement observability for AI systems, including tracing, logging, performance monitoring, drift detection, and output-quality review.\nTranslate prototypes and research concepts into reliable product features that can scale in production.\nPartner with product managers, data engineers, backend engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to define AI capabilities and technical tradeoffs.\nReview architecture, provide technical guidance, mentor junior team members, and promote strong engineering practices.\nCreate clear technical documentation, implementation plans, runbooks, and model lifecycle documentation.\nRequired Qualifications\n5+ years of experience in machine learning engineering, AI engineering, data science engineering, or a related technical role.\n 2+ years of experience building or shipping production GenAI, LLM, or AI-powered systems.\nAdvanced Python programming skills and experience building maintainable production software.\nHands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, scikit-learn, or similar ML frameworks.\nExperience with LLM applications, RAG systems, embeddings, vector databases, prompt engineering, and model evaluation.\nExperience deploying AI / ML services using Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD workflows, APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure.\nStrong understanding of classical machine learning, deep learning, NLP, information retrieval, and model validation.\nAbility to communicate complex AI concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nExperience mentoring engineers, reviewing technical designs, or leading complex AI engineering initiatives.\nPreferred Qualifications\nAdvanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related field.\nExperience with agent frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar tools.\nExperience with model-serving platforms such as vLLM, BentoML, Triton, Ray Serve, or similar systems.\nFamiliarity with ML observability, experiment tracking, model monitoring, and prompt/version management tools.\nExperience with graph-based retrieval, knowledge graphs, multimodal models, large-scale data processing, or security-focused data products.\nExperience with infrastructure-as-code, workflow orchestration, model routing, caching, batching, or quantization.\nSpecial Skills or Experience Required\nProven experience building and deploying production GenAI systems, including LLM applications, agentic workflows, and RAG pipelines.\nAdvanced Python and ML framework experience, including PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, or similar tools.\nExperience with LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector databases, semantic search, and model evaluation.\nStrong production engineering skills, including Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, model serving, observability, latency optimization, and technical leadership.\nSuccess Measures\nSuccess in this role will be measured by the delivery of reliable AI capabilities, improved model quality, reduced latency and cost, stronger evaluation coverage, improved observability, and the successful mentorship of other engineers. 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