Applied LLM Systems Engineer for AI Documentation Pipelines

Neura Market; Santa Ana, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking an Applied LLM Systems Engineer to design, build, and operate production AI systems that enhance how technical documentation is created, transformed, validated, maintained, and delivered. You will develop AI-assisted authoring and automated publishing workflows with multi-agent coordination while ensuring strict review and security requirements.

The role emphasizes systems engineering for production AI, token usage management, and cost control at scale, with close

Qualifications

• On-site in Santa Ana, CA.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Direct experience delivering at least one production AI system.
• Experience optimizing cost, latency, and context usage in production LLM/workflow systems.
• Experience designing evaluation, observability, rollback, and failure-handling for nondeterministic systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and modern API/product development practices.
• Eligible for Secret+ security clearance (US).

Responsibilities

• Build production-grade LLM applications for documentation and knowledge-work workflows.
• Design orchestration for multi-step workflows coordinating models, tools, and deterministic services.
• Optimize context management, token usage, caching, and workflow design for cost and latency.
• Build retrieval, structured-output, and tool-integrated systems interacting with enterprise content and docs systems.
• Design evaluation frameworks and regression testing for prompts, models, tools, and pipelines.
• Establish observability, auditability, rollback, and safe failure modes for AI workflows.
• Collaborate with technical writers, engineers, and leadership to apply AI where high value exists.

Skills

Python

Production AI systems

Cost & latency optimization

Security clearance planning

Tools

Containers

CI/CD

APIs

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking an Applied LLM Systems Engineer to design, build, and operate production AI systems that enhance how technical documentation is created, transformed, validated, maintained, and delivered. You will develop AI-assisted authoring and automated publishing workflows with multi-agent coordination while ensuring strict review and security requirements.

The role emphasizes systems engineering for production AI, token usage management, and cost control at scale, with close