Senior AI Engineer: LLM Optimization & Cloud AI Systems

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a skilled AI/ML Software Engineer to collaborate across engineering, research, and product management to deliver advanced AI-powered solutions.

You will design and deploy AI components, including foundation model training, LLM inference, and guardrails, while optimizing for cost, latency, and scalability across cloud platforms. This role emphasizes staying at the forefront of AI research and applying it to production systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/EE/CE or related field plus 3+ years AI/ML experience, or Master's with 1+ year.
• At least 3 years coding in Python, Go, Scala, or Java.
• Preferred: 4 years deploying AI on cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or private cloud.
• Experience delivering AI services and applying state-of-the-art techniques in production.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineers, researchers, TPMs, and PMs to deliver AI-powered products.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components incl. foundation model training and governance.
• Leverage open-source and SaaS AI tech such as AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, VectorDBs, NeMo Guardrails, PyTorch.
• Invent state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, and throughput.
• Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems.

Skills

AI/ML Algorithm Development

Large Language Model Inference

Python Programming

Go Programming

Java Programming

C++ Programming

Cloud Solutions (AWS/GCP/Azure)

VectorDBs/Similarity Search

Model Evaluation

Hardware/Software Foundations in AI

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields

Master's degree in those fields

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Hugging Face

NeMo Guardrails

PyTorch

Google Cloud

Azure

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a skilled AI/ML Software Engineer to collaborate across engineering, research, and product management to deliver advanced AI-powered solutions.

You will design and deploy AI components, including foundation model training, LLM inference, and guardrails, while optimizing for cost, latency, and scalability across cloud platforms. This role emphasizes staying at the forefront of AI research and applying it to production systems.