AI Engineer - Python/Java ML/AI

Quantum Technologies. LLC; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES LLC is seeking an AI/ML-focused engineer to design, implement, and integrate production-grade AI powered applications in a fast-paced environment.

The role emphasizes building practical systems, evaluating model capabilities, and collaborating with engineers to translate complex findings into actionable guidance. Equity-friendly growth and an inclusive team culture are highlighted throughout the posting.

Qualifications

• Applied data science background through degree coursework, immersive bootcamp, or equivalent applied experience.
• Proven ability to design and deliver applications, with experience making practical systems design tradeoffs.
• Experience building and integrating applications with LLMs.
• Experience with vector databases, graph databases, or other structured retrieval approaches.
• Ability to explain and apply AI engineering practices (retrieval, context management, evaluation methods, MLOps patterns) to other engineers.
• Strong communication skills to translate technical findings into clear guidance.

Skills

Data science background

Systems design thinking

LLM integration

Vector databases

Graph databases

Retrieval systems

MLOps patterns

Communication skills

Tools

Hugging Face

PyTorch

LangChain

MCP

Job description

• Applied data science background (degree coursework, immersive bootcamp, or equivalent applied experience).
• Proven ability to design and deliver applications, with experience making practical systems design tradeoffs.
• Experience building and integrating applications with LLMs.
• Experience with vector databases, graph databases, or other structured retrieval approaches.
• Ability to explain and apply AI engineering practices (retrieval, context management, evaluation methods, MLOps
• patterns) to other engineers.
• Strong communication skills to translate technical findings into clear guidance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to rapidly learn and apply new model capabilities and emerging AI research.
• Ability to design and execute experiments with clear hypotheses, baselines, and success criteria.
• Experience designing and running LLM evaluation pipelines that combine quantitative and qualitative methods, balance precision-recall tradeoffs, and align metrics with user workflows.
• Familiarity with Hugging Face ecosystem (Transformers, Datasets, evaluation libraries).
• Experience with PyTorch for fine-tuning, evaluation, and lightweight model training.
• Experience implementing a variety of model integration approaches such as LangChain and MCP .

QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES LLC is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of female, minority, disability and veterans, (M/F/D/V). Hiring, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination and all other employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, citizenship/immigration status, veteran status or any other protected status. QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES LLC will not make any posting or employment decision that does not comply with applicable laws relating to labor and employment, equal opportunity, employment eligibility requirements or related matters. Nor will QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES LLC require in a posting or otherwise U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency in the U.S. as a condition of employment except as necessary to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or federal, state, or local government contract