Remote Lead AI Engineer - LLM, RAG & Azure Architect

Talantir; France; Remote; EUR 54,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Talantir is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to design and deliver secure, production-ready AI capabilities within a large enterprise tax platform hosted on Azure. The platform uses .NET 8, Angular, SQL Server, and Azure services, and the role will architect and integrate advanced AI features into the system.

You will work on LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, secure API design, and DevOps practices, with remote work across Europe.

Qualifications

• Expert-level Python and FastAPI experience.
• Strong SQL Server and ORM expertise.
• Deep Azure architecture knowledge.
• Proven production LLM and RAG implementation experience.
• Strong prompt engineering and tool-calling design.
• Experience with event-driven systems and secure API design.
• Hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Cursor).

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement LLM integrations (Azure OpenAI preferred).
• Design robust RAG pipelines (embeddings, chunking, vector search, re-ranking).
• Build secure, async backend services using Python and FastAPI.
• Ensure enterprise-grade security, PII protection, and compliance.
• Design scalable Azure-native architectures (App Services, Functions, Service Bus, Event Grid).
• Implement AI observability and evaluation frameworks.
• Drive performance tuning and advanced SQL Server optimization.
• Establish DevOps best practices and CI/CD standards.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

SQL Server

ORM

Azure architecture

LLM

RAG

Prompt engineering

Tool calling

Event-driven

Secure API design

Copilot

Cursor

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Copilot

Cursor

Job description

Talantir is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to design and deliver secure, production-ready AI capabilities within a large enterprise tax platform hosted on Azure. The platform uses .NET 8, Angular, SQL Server, and Azure services, and the role will architect and integrate advanced AI features into the system.

You will work on LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, secure API design, and DevOps practices, with remote work across Europe.