Generative AI Engineer: Build Grounded AI Tools & Workflows

Peregrine Advisors LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

OPEN Data Jobs is seeking Generative AI Engineers to build production apps around foundation models and LLMs. They turn model capabilities into tools for search, drafting, summarization, information extraction, and multimodal work with governance and observability baked in.

The role focuses on application and context engineering, connecting models to knowledge, tools, and workflows, while designing prompts and structured outputs and evaluating quality, grounding, safety, latency, and cost.

Qualifications

• Experience building production apps around foundation models and LLMs.
• Ability to design prompts and structured outputs for reliable services.
• Working knowledge of retrieval systems, embeddings, and knowledge stores.
• Proven ability to evaluate grounding, safety, latency and cost.

Responsibilities

• Build grounded assistants and knowledge applications with retrieval-augmented generation.
• Develop drafting, summarization, classification, extraction, and transformation services.
• Create agents and multistep workflows with defined tool schemas and approvals.
• Set up evaluation systems with test cases, rubrics, grounding checks, and safety tests.
• Maintain operational pipelines for versioning prompts, tracing execution, and monitoring cost.

Skills

Foundation-model integration

Prompt and context design

Retrieval and embeddings

Evaluation of model outputs

Job description

OPEN Data Jobs is seeking Generative AI Engineers to build production apps around foundation models and LLMs. They turn model capabilities into tools for search, drafting, summarization, information extraction, and multimodal work with governance and observability baked in.

The role focuses on application and context engineering, connecting models to knowledge, tools, and workflows, while designing prompts and structured outputs and evaluating quality, grounding, safety, latency, and cost.