CareerPlan

Senior Principal Software Engineer - LLM Engineering

USAFull-time$61k–$101k2026-10-18 → 2026-11-10

Core

Architecting and deploying large-scale LLM and GNN solutions for enterprise AI platforms, focusing on inference optimization, model serving, and agentic AI practices.

Role type

Senior Principal Software Engineer (LLM Engineering)

Builds

High-throughput, low-latency model-serving platforms and agentic AI-enabled development frameworks

Domain

Financial Services / AI/ML Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM architecture, GNN, inference optimization, Triton Inference Server, vLLM, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, LLMOps, MLOps, distributed systems, system design, security governance

Preferred skills

Cloud-native infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform), AI/ML security compliance, trust and safety, payments platform familiarity, open-source contributions, GPU/TPU acceleration, Java

Technologies

AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, EKS, Azure ML, GCP Vertex AI, Triton, vLLM, MLflow, Kubeflow, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Java

Responsibilities

Lead strategy and architecture for model-serving solutions across cloud and on-premises environments; Implement MLOps and LLMOps approaches for the full model lifecycle; Optimize inference performance using quantization, model parallelism, and hardware acceleration; Establish standards for agentic AI-enabled engineering; Define guardrails for validation, security, and resiliency; Partner with data science and SRE teams to deploy models on AWS; Oversee production operations for AI workloads including monitoring and incident response

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship