LLM Engineer

Remote
Rate: $90 - 115/hr
LLM / AI Engineer

Seeking a Senior LLM/AI Engineer to build and deploy production-grade GenAI capabilities within large-scale applications. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on Python, LLM systems, RAG, agents, MCP, and AI-assisted development.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy LLM-powered features from concept through production
• Develop backend services and REST APIs using Python/FastAPI
• Build RAG, agentic, and multi-agent solutions
• Develop, deploy, and secure MCP servers and integrations
• Evaluate and integrate LLMs including OpenAI and Anthropic
• Use AI coding tools and autonomous agents to accelerate development and automate engineering workflows
• Own solutions end to end, including architecture, development, testing, deployment, and optimization
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable AI solutions

Required Skills

• 8+ years of Python/API development experience
• 2+ years of hands-on LLM/GenAI engineering experience
• Strong Python and FastAPI/REST API development
• Production experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar LLM APIs
• RAG: vector databases, semantic search, retrieval, embeddings, and chunking strategies
• Agentic AI and multi-agent systems
• MCP server development, deployment, and security
• Daily experience with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or autonomous coding agents
• Experience deploying GenAI solutions to production at scale
• Event-driven architectures, messaging systems, and server-sent events
• Strong backend security, authentication, and data protection knowledge

Nice to Have

• LangChain or LlamaIndex
• LLM evaluation frameworks, regression testing, LLM-as-judge, and quality metrics
• LLM monitoring, observability, and guardrails
• Experience building AI/ML capabilities within large, business-critical applications