Junior AI/ML Engineer

Socotra Tech Services LLC; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth opportunities

Direct ownership of initiatives

Job summary

Socotra Tech Services LLC is hiring a Junior AI/ML Engineer to design, develop, and deploy LLM-based features within the Fund Dharma product team. You will build internal AI agents and lead automation initiatives for administrative and engineering processes.

You will modernize the existing Node.js and React codebase by leveraging LLMs and AI-driven code transformation tools, and you will develop, fine-tune, and evaluate prompts, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows for production use.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, ML, Data Science, or related field.
• Solid understanding of LLM architectures and transformer models.
• Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks and API integrations.
• Experience designing AI agents, tool-use patterns, or multi-step LLM workflows.
• Familiarity with vector databases and RAG pipelines.
• Experience deploying ML/AI systems to cloud platforms (AWS).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy production-grade LLM features.
• Build and maintain internal AI agents to automate workflows.
• Lead modernization of Node.js/React codebase using AI-driven transformations.
• Develop and evaluate LLM prompts, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows.
• Implement end-to-end ML pipelines from data prep to deployment and monitoring.
• Collaborate with engineers, PMs, and stakeholders to translate requirements.
• Write clean, tested code and participate in code reviews.
• Monitor performance, accuracy, and cost-efficiency of AI systems.
• Stay current with advances in LLMs and agentic AI.

Skills

LLM architectures

Transformer models

LangChain/LlamaIndex

NLP techniques

Prompt engineering

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science/AI/ML/Data Science

Tools

OpenAI API

LangChain

Weaviate

pgvector

Job description

Socotra Tech Services is hiring a Junior AI/ML Engineer to join our Fund Dharma product team full-time. In this role, you will design, develop, and deploy LLM-based features, build internal AI agents, and lead automation initiatives for our administrative and engineering processes. You will also play a key role in modernizing and reducing our existing Node.js and React codebase by leveraging LLMs and AI-driven code transformation tools.

Job Title:Junior AI/ML Engineer

Employment Type:Full-time

Hours:40 hours per week

Work Sponsorship:This position does not offer visa sponsorship

Education Requirement:Minimum Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy production‑grade Large Language Model (LLM) features within the Fund Dharma product.
• Build, integrate, and maintain internal AI agents that automate administrative workflows and operational processes.
• Lead initiatives to reduce, refactor, and modernize the existing Node.js and React codebase using LLM‑assisted code generation and transformation.
• Develop, fine‑tune, and evaluate LLM prompts, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows for production use.
• Implement end‑to‑end ML pipelines including data preparation, model selection, deployment, and monitoring.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical AI solutions.
• Write clean, well‑tested, and well‑documented code; participate actively in code reviews.
• Monitor performance, accuracy, and cost‑efficiency of deployed AI systems and iterate on improvements.
• Stay current with advancements in LLMs, agentic AI, and ML engineering best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field.
• Solid understanding of LLM architectures, transformer models, and modern NLP techniques.
• Hands‑on experience with LLM frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or direct integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar provider APIs.
• Experience designing and implementing AI agents, tool‑use patterns, or multi‑step LLM workflows.
• Familiarity with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector) and RAG pipelines.
• Experience deploying ML/AI systems to cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Understanding of prompt engineering, evaluation methodologies, and LLM safety/guardrails.
• Strong problem‑solving, debugging, and software engineering fundamentals.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Exposure to MLOps practices and tools for model monitoring and observability.
• Experience using AI coding assistants or LLM‑based code transformation tools to refactor existing codebases.
• Background in fintech or fund/investment management domain.
• Published research, open‑source contributions, or notable ML/AI projects.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to work on cutting‑edge LLM and agentic AI systems at the heart of a growing fintech product.
• A collaborative, learning‑oriented engineering culture.
• Direct ownership of impactful initiatives spanning AI, automation, and codebase modernization.
• Professional growth opportunities and exposure to modern cloud and AI tooling.

Socotra Tech Services LLC is an equal opportunity employer.