AI Engineer: On-Prem LLMs & Document Workflows

Better Direct AI; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Professional development assistance

Retirement plan

Vision insurance

Job summary

Better Direct AI in Tempe, AZ, is seeking an AI Engineer to own AI capabilities from concept to production, including models, data pipelines, APIs, and UX. You’ll focus on document transformation and workflow automation to move quotes and product data through production systems with quality controls.

You will design, deploy, and monitor end-to-end AI components, build Python services with FastAPI, and integrate AI outputs into CRM workflows with audit trails and confidence scores.

Qualifications

• 1+ year of experience building applications powered by LLMs or other machine-learning models used in real workflows.
• Strong Python skills, including FastAPI and asynchronous programming.
• Working knowledge of TypeScript or JavaScript, with REST APIs or React experience.
• Strong SQL and PostgreSQL fundamentals: schema design, migrations, indexing, and queries.
• Hands-on experience in two areas: RAG/embeddings/semantic search, OCR, model serving, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Design document-processing pipelines converting RFQ PDFs, scanned pages, spreadsheets, and emails into structured outputs.
• Run, optimize, and monitor self-hosted LLMs, vision-language models, OCR systems, and embeddings on on-prem GPUs and Kubernetes.
• Build search and RAG systems for contracts, catalogs, and quotes using PostgreSQL, pgvector, BM25, and vector retrieval.
• Develop tool-using agents that research products across distributor catalogs and prepare quotes for review.
• Train and evaluate classifiers, NER models, and sequence-labeling models when LLMs are slow or expensive.
• Create labeled evaluation datasets, regression tests, and performance benchmarks for accuracy and latency.
• Build Python services using FastAPI, Celery, and Redis for extraction, crawling, polling, and background workloads.
• Ship AI capabilities into the CRM using Express and Prisma APIs, PostgreSQL migrations, and React interfaces.
• Integrate AI outputs into production workflows with confidence scores, human review, and audit trails.
• Deploy and maintain services with Docker and Git, using runbooks and post-release monitoring.

Skills

LLM applications

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

SQL PostgreSQL

Linux/Git/Docker

Communication

Tools

FastAPI

Kubernetes

Docker

Redis

Celery

Express

Prisma

Selenium

Playwright

Job description

Better Direct AI in Tempe, AZ, is seeking an AI Engineer to own AI capabilities from concept to production, including models, data pipelines, APIs, and UX. You’ll focus on document transformation and workflow automation to move quotes and product data through production systems with quality controls.

You will design, deploy, and monitor end-to-end AI components, build Python services with FastAPI, and integrate AI outputs into CRM workflows with audit trails and confidence scores.