Senior AI Engineer
Core
Design and build production-grade, LLM-powered systems, agents, and RAG pipelines that solve real problems at scale across the organization.
Role type
Senior IC AI Engineer (LLM Systems)
Builds
Agents, RAG pipelines, and tool-using systems
Domain
Enterprise Data Infrastructure + Applied AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python, coding agents (Cursor/Claude/GitHub Copilot), SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, Docker/Kubernetes, Linux, cloud-native tools (AWS/GCP/Azure), LLM architecture (tokenization/attention/context), RAG/MCP/vector databases, agentic patterns, evaluation harnesses
Preferred skills
fine-tuning/distilling open-source models, streaming/real-time systems, prompt evaluation frameworks, distributed systems
Technologies
LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, Haystack, Pydantic AI, Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, LangSmith, Langfuse, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB (via careerplan.io/jobs/43-001-3B-B60-senior-ai-engineer-at-vast-data)
