NLP AI Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an expert NLP AI Engineer with 10+ years of AI/ML/NLP experience to design, fine-tune, and deploy enterprise-scale LLMs. You will lead collaboration across AI research, engineering, and product teams, shaping scalable AI solutions with PyTorch, transformer models, and state-of-the-art distributed training techniques.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, production-grade pipelines, and strong knowledge of MLOps, cloud platforms, and evaluation frameworks

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design and fine-tune Large Language Models (LLMs) for production.
• Architect scalable distributed training pipelines and GPU clusters.
• Develop datasets, synthetic data, and evaluation frameworks.
• Optimize training, inference, benchmarking, and model serving.
• Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and embedding pipelines.
• Implement Responsible AI, safety testing, and bias evaluation.
• Collaborate with researchers, engineers, data scientists, and product teams.
• Lead architecture reviews and mentor junior engineers.
• Evaluate emerging NLP research and foundation models.
• Ensure scalable, secure, and compliant AI solutions.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Collaboration

Technical leadership

Education

Master's or Ph.D. in CS/AI/ML/NLP

Tools

PyTorch

Transformer architectures

FSDP/DeepSpeed ZeRO

Pipeline/tensor/model parallelism

RLHF/DPO/PPO

AWS/Azure/GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Ray

LangChain/LlamaIndex/LangGraph

Job description

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 Statement

Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement

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.