Production AI Systems Engineer - LLM & Documentation

Anduril Industries; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Santa Ana, CA, is seeking an Applied LLM Systems Engineer to design, build, and operate production AI systems that improve how technical documentation is created, transformed, validated, maintained, and delivered. You will build and maintain AI-assisted authoring, automated publishing, and multi-agent coordination tooling for the Technical Publications pipeline.

This is not a prompt-writing role but a systems-engineering position with production impact and secure, auditable

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including building and operating production services.
• Experience delivering at least one production AI system with measurable adoption.
• Experience optimizing cost, latency, and context usage in production LLM or workflow systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and modern API/architecture practices (security, IAM, data protection).
• Must be eligible for Secret and higher security clearance (US).
• Experience designing evaluation, observability, rollback, and failure-handling for nondeterministic systems.

Responsibilities

• Build production-grade LLM applications for documentation and knowledge-work workflows.
• Design orchestration for multi-step workflows coordinating models, tools, and deterministic services.
• Optimize context management, token usage, caching, and workflow design for cost and latency.
• Build retrieval, structured-output, and tool-integrated systems interacting with enterprise content and docs systems.
• Design evaluation frameworks and regression testing for prompts, models, tools, and pipelines.
• Establish observability, auditability, rollback, and safe failure modes for AI-assisted workflows.
• Collaborate with technical writers, engineers, and leaders to identify high-value AI applications.
• Preserve provenance between source material, generated output, validation results, and human decisions.

Skills

Software engineering

AI systems

Cost optimization

Observability

Python

Security practices

Security clearance

Production systems

Tools

CI/CD

Containerized services

Job description

Anduril Industries in Santa Ana, CA, is seeking an Applied LLM Systems Engineer to design, build, and operate production AI systems that improve how technical documentation is created, transformed, validated, maintained, and delivered. You will build and maintain AI-assisted authoring, automated publishing, and multi-agent coordination tooling for the Technical Publications pipeline.

This is not a prompt-writing role but a systems-engineering position with production impact and secure, auditable