Remote Senior AI Engineer - LLM & Agentic AI

Applaudo; Colombia; Presencial; COP 282.841.000 - 408.548.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Applaudo is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to design and build production-grade LLM applications and agentic AI systems. You will implement tool calling, context management, and multi-step orchestration, integrating hosted LLM APIs into scalable workflows.

You will collaborate with software engineers and AI specialists, apply prompt engineering and evaluation methodologies, and contribute to a high-performance AI platform while working remotely from Colombia.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or related field is desired, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python and software engineering best practices.
• Strong SQL skills working with cloud data warehouses.
• Hands-on experience building production-grade LLM and agentic AI applications.
• Experience implementing tool calling, MCP servers, context management, and multi-step orchestration.
• Experience integrating hosted LLM APIs such as Anthropic and OpenAI into production environments.
• Experience with prompt engineering, prompt versioning, fallback strategies, and cost/latency optimization.
• Experience designing intent classification and routing solutions for natural language applications.
• Experience building conversational AI solutions or multi-API orchestration workflows.
• Experience developing LLM evaluation methodologies and working within existing codebases.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Professional English proficiency.

Responsabilidades

• Build and maintain MCP servers, tool definitions, and context management capabilities.
• Design and implement intent evaluation, classification, and routing workflows.
• Integrate Anthropic and OpenAI models into production environments.
• Manage prompt versioning, fallback strategies, and LLM performance optimization.
• Develop and maintain evaluation frameworks to validate model quality and production performance.
• Collaborate closely with software engineers and AI specialists to deliver production-ready AI solutions.
• Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to AI platform design.
• Continuously improve AI systems through experimentation, optimization, and engineering best practices.

Conocimientos

Python

SQL

LLM deployment

Tool calling

MCP servers

Prompt engineering

English proficiency

Collaborative work

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in CS/SE/AI

Herramientas

Hugging Face

AWS

GPU acceleration

RAG

Descripción del empleo

Applaudo is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to design and build production-grade LLM applications and agentic AI systems. You will implement tool calling, context management, and multi-step orchestration, integrating hosted LLM APIs into scalable workflows.

You will collaborate with software engineers and AI specialists, apply prompt engineering and evaluation methodologies, and contribute to a high-performance AI platform while working remotely from Colombia.