CareerPlan

Lead Applied AI Engineer

USAFull-time$92k–$132k2026-10-21 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Design and build production LLM applications, agents, and tool-using systems for the energy sector, focusing on document extraction and workflow automation.

Role type

Senior IC applied AI engineer (LLM systems)

Builds

Generative AI applications, agentic systems, and document processing pipelines for oil and gas clients

Domain

Energy (oil and gas) + Generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, LLM application development, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic systems, prompt engineering, model selection, cloud deployment, security guardrails, observability, mentoring

Preferred skills

Document AI (OCR, layout-aware extraction), fine-tuning open-weight models, Azure/AWS AI services, hiring AI engineers, cross-functional innovation experience

Technologies

AWS, Azure, Python, LLM, Machine Learning, Cloud, Security, Architect

Responsibilities

Identify customer workflow problems suited for generative AI; design and build LLM applications and agents; assess and select foundation models; build systems to extract and interpret energy documents; establish safety guardrails and monitoring; partner with data scientists on evaluation; set technical direction for the Labs applied AI function; mentor and coach colleagues.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities