NLP AI Engineer

Latitude; New Albany (OH); Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies seeks a highly experienced NLP AI Engineer to design, fine-tune, optimize, and deploy enterprise-scale Large Language Models (LLMs). You will lead architecture reviews and collaborate across AI research, engineering, and product teams to deliver scalable, production-ready AI solutions.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in AI/ML/NLP, expert Python with PyTorch, and hands-on experience with RLHF, DPO, and cloud-based AI workloads.

Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in CS/AI or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in AI/ML/NLP/LLM engineering.
• Expert Python with PyTorch and transformer architectures.
• Proven LLM production deployment experience.
• Distributed training: FSDP, DeepSpeed ZeRO, pipeline/tensor parallelism.
• Experience with RLHF, DPO, PPO or similar.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP for AI workloads.
• Strong ML/NLP, MLOps, and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, fine-tune, and optimize LLMs using SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, RLHF, DPO, PPO, PEFT.
• Architect scalable distributed training pipelines on GPU clusters.
• Develop datasets, synthetic data pipelines, and evaluation frameworks.
• Optimize GPU training, inference, experiment tracking, and model serving.
• Design RAG pipelines, embedding models, vector search, and agentic AI workflows.
• Develop benchmarking, safety testing, and Responsible AI evaluation.
• Collaborate with researchers, engineers, data scientists, and product teams.
• Lead architecture reviews and mentor junior AI engineers.
• Evaluate emerging NLP research and foundation models for innovation.
• Ensure solutions meet scalability, security, compliance, and operations.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Transformer architectures

Distributed training

RLHF

DPO/PPO

Cloud platforms

MLOps

Team leadership

Education

MS/PhD in CS/AI

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Ray

Job description

About Company

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.

Job Title

NLP AI Engineer

Location

100% Remote (U.S.)

Position Type

Full-time, Direct W2

Salary Range

$130,000–$180,000 Annually (based on experience)

Experience Required

10+ Years

Sponsorship

U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.

Job Summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced NLP AI Engineer with 10+ years of experience in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to design, fine-tune, optimize, and deploy enterprise-scale Large Language Models (LLMs). The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in PyTorch, transformer architectures, distributed training, RLHF, Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), model evaluation, and MLOps, with a proven track record of building scalable, production-ready AI solutions. This role requires strong technical leadership and collaboration across AI research, engineering, and product teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, fine-tune, and optimize Large Language Models using techniques such as Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), LoRA, QLoRA, RLHF, DPO, PPO, and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT)
• Architect scalable distributed training pipelines using modern deep learning frameworks and GPU clusters
• Develop high-quality datasets, synthetic data generation pipelines, and evaluation frameworks to improve model accuracy, robustness, and reliability
• Optimize large-scale GPU training, inference performance, experiment tracking, and model serving
• Design and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, embedding models, vector search, and agentic AI workflows
• Develop automated benchmarking, safety testing, hallucination detection, and Responsible AI evaluation frameworks
• Collaborate with AI researchers, software engineers, data scientists, and product teams to deliver enterprise AI applications
• Lead architecture reviews, establish best practices for LLM development, and mentor junior AI engineers
• Evaluate emerging NLP research, foundation models, and AI frameworks to drive continuous innovation
• Ensure AI solutions meet enterprise requirements for scalability, security, compliance, and operational excellence

Required Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent professional experience)
• 10+ years of professional experience in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, NLP, or LLM engineering
• Expert-level programming skills in Python with extensive experience using PyTorch and transformer-based architectures
• Proven experience fine-tuning and deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) for production environments
• Strong expertise in distributed training technologies, including FSDP, DeepSpeed ZeRO, pipeline parallelism, tensor parallelism, and model parallelism
• Hands‑on experience with RLHF, DPO, PPO, or other preference optimization techniques
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for AI workloads
• Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms, deep learning, NLP, model evaluation, and MLOps practices
• Excellent analytical, communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Publications in leading AI and Machine Learning conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, or CVPR
• Experience with multimodal AI, vision-language models (VLMs), speech models, or foundation models
• Knowledge of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, knowledge graphs, and AI agent frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or LangGraph
• Experience with synthetic data generation, Responsible AI, AI governance, fairness, and model safety
• Contributions to open-source LLM training frameworks, AI research, patents, or technical publications
• Experience deploying AI applications using Kubernetes, Docker, Ray, and enterprise MLOps platforms

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement

Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Bright Vision Technologies (BV Teck) is committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status as defined by applicable federal, state, or local laws. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, transfer, leaves of absence, termination, layoffs, and recall.

BV Teck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination. Any improper interference with employees' ability to perform their job duties may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.