Applied AI Engineer: Field Solutions & Automation

Trilon; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 155,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Trilon in Charlotte, NC, is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to design and implement AI-powered features that reduce real engineering labor across our operating companies. You will work at the intersection of software engineering and applied AI, building prompt frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and agent-based workflows that operate on real engineering data.

Collaborate with lead engineers, software engineers, and QA to deliver production-ready AI solutions in a fast-moving,

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering or ML/AI development experience.
• Strong Python/JavaScript programming skills.
• Hands-on with LLM APIs (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI) and prompt engineering.
• Experience building retrieval-augmented generation and vector databases.
• Familiar with agent orchestration frameworks and multi-step AI workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI-powered features using LLMs and related tooling.
• Develop prompt architectures and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines.
• Integrate AI capabilities into applications via APIs and backend systems.
• Collaborate with pod teams to deliver production-ready AI solutions.
• Evaluate and improve AI outputs for reliability and accuracy.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

LLM APIs

Prompt engineering

Vector databases

Agent orchestration

APIs & backend systems

Tools

Anthropic Claude

OpenAI API

LLM tooling

Job description

Trilon in Charlotte, NC, is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to design and implement AI-powered features that reduce real engineering labor across our operating companies. You will work at the intersection of software engineering and applied AI, building prompt frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and agent-based workflows that operate on real engineering data.

Collaborate with lead engineers, software engineers, and QA to deliver production-ready AI solutions in a fast-moving,