AI/ML Engineer — Generative AI & LLM Apps

Valiant Technologies LLC; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC in Annapolis, MD seeks an AI/ML Engineer to design and deliver scalable enterprise AI/ML and Generative AI solutions. You will build production-grade LLM apps, RAG pipelines, AI agents, and decision-support systems.

You will craft prompt orchestration, grounding, tool-calling, guardrails and fallback mechanisms, and optimize agentic workflows with multi-step reasoning and API integrations.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in AI/ML engineering or software engineering.
• Hands-on production experience with Generative AI and LLM-based applications.
• Experience with RAG architectures and retrieval/grounding techniques.
• Hands-on experience building AI agents / Agentic AI solutions.
• Knowledge of prompt engineering and LLM orchestration.
• Experience integrating LLMs with APIs, enterprise applications, and data sources.
• Experience with model/LLM evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and hallucination mitigation.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, APIs, data platforms, and scalable distributed applications.
• Knowledge of Responsible AI, security, privacy, compliance, and AI governance.
• Strong communication skills with technical and business stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable enterprise AI/ML and Generative AI solutions.
• Build production-grade LLM applications, RAG pipelines, AI agents, and decision-support systems.
• Design prompt engineering, orchestration, grounding, tool-calling, guardrails, and fallback mechanisms.
• Develop and optimize agentic AI workflows with multi-step reasoning and tool integrations.
• Establish AI evaluation frameworks, datasets, scoring methodologies, and performance benchmarks.
• Evaluate and optimize AI systems for accuracy, relevance, latency, reliability, and cost.
• Integrate AI applications with enterprise APIs, data platforms, vector databases, and governed data sources.
• Perform failure-mode analysis and continuously improve production AI systems.
• Implement AI observability, monitoring, evaluation, and model/drift monitoring practices.
• Ensure solutions meet Responsible AI, security, privacy, compliance, and governance requirements.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering, Architecture, Security, Quality Engineering, and business stakeholders.

Skills

AI/ML Engineering

LLM-based apps

RAG architectures

Agentic AI solutions

Prompt engineering

API integration

Model evaluation

Cloud-native

Governance & security

Cross-functional communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Vector databases

Embeddings platforms

Knowledge retrieval systems

APIs tooling

Job description

Valiant Technologies LLC in Annapolis, MD seeks an AI/ML Engineer to design and deliver scalable enterprise AI/ML and Generative AI solutions. You will build production-grade LLM apps, RAG pipelines, AI agents, and decision-support systems.

You will craft prompt orchestration, grounding, tool-calling, guardrails and fallback mechanisms, and optimize agentic workflows with multi-step reasoning and API integrations.