Senior AI Developer - RAG/LLM Architect (Onsite Pasadena)

ACCO Engineered Systems; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wages

Job summary

ACCO Engineered Systems seeks a Senior AI Developer to lead architecture, design, and deployment of enterprise AI solutions across ACCO’s digital infrastructure. You will design RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and secure LLM integrations within Azure and Google Cloud, collaborating with the Applications Architect to set LLMOps standards.

You will drive production-grade AI solutions, ensure data privacy, and optimize latency and costs while mentoring the team and advancing secure AI engineering

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with at least 2+ years in building, integrating, or deploying LLMs, vector search, or AI pipelines in production environments.
• Proficiency in Python for AI/ML development, with working knowledge of C# and .NET Core architectures.
• Hands-on experience with vector databases and semantic search technologies.
• Strong expertise with LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g., Semantic Kernel, LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen).
• Proven track record deploying, scaling, and managing AI endpoints within Azure and Google Cloud.
• Deep understanding of AI security risks and enterprise encryption/privacy standards.
• Ability to work onsite from the Pasadena corporate office four days a week.

Responsibilities

• Drive hands-on software development of production-grade AI solutions, AI agents, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Partner with the Applications Architect to turn business requirements into secure, scalable AI microservices.
• Establish and enforce standards for LLMOps, model evaluation, output validation, and latency/cost optimization.
• Implement robust AI security measures, guardrails, and data privacy protocols.
• Develop and maintain automated data preparation, chunking, and embedding pipelines for data assets.
• Evaluate and integrate emerging models (Gemini, OpenAI, Claude, Llama) and orchestration frameworks.
• Conduct architectural and code reviews, and upskill team members on AI practices.
• Monitor runtime performance, usage metrics, and accuracy of deployed AI agents and models.

Skills

Software engineering

Python

C# / .NET

Vector databases

LLM orchestration

Azure & GCP

AI security

Pasadena onsite

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/DS/SE

Tools

Semantic Kernel

LangChain

LlamaIndex

AutoGen

Job description

ACCO Engineered Systems seeks a Senior AI Developer to lead architecture, design, and deployment of enterprise AI solutions across ACCO’s digital infrastructure. You will design RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and secure LLM integrations within Azure and Google Cloud, collaborating with the Applications Architect to set LLMOps standards.

You will drive production-grade AI solutions, ensure data privacy, and optimize latency and costs while mentoring the team and advancing secure AI engineering