Senior Applied LLM Engineer

San Francisco, CA, US • Posted 2 hours ago • Updated 2 hours ago
Full Time
No Travel Required
Able to Sponsor
On-site
$150,000 - $200,000/yr
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Skills

  • Applied LLM
  • LLM
  • Large Language Model
  • AI/ML
  • FastAPI
  • Django
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • cloud
  • Python
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub
  • Terraform
  • Infrastructure-as-Code
  • AI tools
  • AI code editors
  • OpenAI
  • LLM workflows
  • RAG
  • React
  • LLM prompt
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning (ML)
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Software Development
  • Startups
  • Life Sciences
  • Health Care
  • Good Clinical Practice

Summary

Position: Senior Applied LLM Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite)
Employment mode: Full-time position

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
  • 10+ years overall and 3+ years of software development experience, with a focus on building and deploying AI/ML applications
  • Strong backend engineering experience, including:
  • Building APIs from the ground up using Python frameworks such as FastAPI and Django
  • Deploying and scaling containerized applications in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure)
  • Implementing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions)
  • Working with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi
  • Hands-on experience building LLM-based applications, including:
    • Designing multi-step LLM workflows and task-specific agents
  • Experience working with most frontier models (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc )
  • Experience with AI tools as a user, specifically AI code editors
  • Developing advanced prompt engineering strategies, evaluation frameworks, and RAG pipelines
  • Conducting technical R&D to explore and define the boundaries of model functionality
  • Familiarity with secure coding practices, ideally in regulated industries (e.g., life sciences, healthcare, fintech)
  • Experience working in or adjacent to regulated domains (life sciences, clinical R&D) is a plus
  • Frontend development experience (e.g., React) is a plus, but not required

Requirements:

  • Very comfortable working in a fast-paced and intense startup environment
  • Willing to work in our office in Mission Bay, 4-5 days/week
  • Likes matcha KitKats, believes every LLM prompt is just Schrodinger s cat waiting to be observed, and knows too many random facts about the Mongol postal system
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  • Dice Id: 91070970
  • Position Id: 8911256
  • Posted 2 hours ago
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