Gen AI Engineer (Remote) — Build & Deploy LLM Solutions

Firstsource; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Career growth opportunities

Access to Gen AI tools

Job summary

Firstsource Solutions is seeking a Gen AI Engineer Mid-Level to join our remote team. You will own end-to-end Gen AI solutions from discovery to production, work with clients and stakeholders, and collaborate with engineering teams to deliver scalable AI solutions.

The role emphasizes hands-on development with LLMs, RAG systems, document processing pipelines, and cost and latency optimisation, with mentoring responsibilities for junior engineers.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of software engineering experience with at least one product or major feature deployed to real users.
• Strong programming skills in Python and one of: TypeScript, Go, Java.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying production-ready Gen AI/LLM-based applications.
• Strong understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector), AI agents, distributed systems, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Experience with LLM cost optimisation, latency management, prompt versioning, and evaluation frameworks.
• Experience with client-facing roles and owning projects from development to deployment.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of Gen AI solutions, from requirement gathering to production deployment.
• Design and develop document processing pipelines, AI agents, RAG systems, copilots, and operational AI solutions.
• Build, deploy, and optimise LLM-powered applications.
• Implement evaluation frameworks, prompt versioning, cost and latency optimisation, monitoring, and guardrails.
• Interact with clients and stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers (0–2 years of experience), review code, and support their technical development.
• Contribute reusable components, frameworks, and solutions to Firstsource's internal AI platform.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Go

Java

Gen AI deployments

Client interaction

Distributed systems

Tools

Pinecone

Weaviate

pgvector

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Windsurf

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Firstsource Solutions is seeking a Gen AI Engineer Mid-Level to join our remote team. You will own end-to-end Gen AI solutions from discovery to production, work with clients and stakeholders, and collaborate with engineering teams to deliver scalable AI solutions.

The role emphasizes hands-on development with LLMs, RAG systems, document processing pipelines, and cost and latency optimisation, with mentoring responsibilities for junior engineers.