Senior AI Specialist: RAG, LLMs & Prototyping

Cousera Internal Rehire Job Board; United States; Remote; USD 120.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Coursera is seeking a highly skilled AI Specialist with strong hands-on expertise in AI and data to turn ambiguous business problems into working AI solutions. This role focuses on modern LLM and GenAI systems, designing AI pipelines, and rapid prototyping to deliver measurable results.

The ideal candidate will work with product managers, data analysts, and software engineers, deploying scalable AI workflows such as RAG architectures and agent workflows.

Qualifikationen

• 4+ years of experience in Data Science, Applied AI, or Machine Learning.
• Experience taking an AI use case from data exploration to a working prototype.
• Hands-on experience with machine learning and/or modern Generative AI techniques such as LLMs, embeddings, RAG, semantic search, NLP, recommendation, or agentic systems.
• At least 2 production deployments involving LLM-based systems (fine-tuning, RAG, agentic workflows, or prompt-engineered solutions).
• Experience using Python and SQL to work with data, build analysis workflows, develop AI algorithms, experiment with models, and build AI/ML solutions.

Aufgaben

• Build and Design AI systems by selecting the right data and retrieval pipelines, agentic workflows with tool use, and structured extraction from unstructured sources.
• Architect and implement Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines with vector databases for grounded, context-aware AI applications.
• Build and maintain agentic AI workflows using frameworks such as Langgraph, Mastra, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, or AutoGen including multi-step tool use, planning, and autonomous execution loops.
• Design and run evaluation for every AI system you ship, covering accuracy, hallucination and grounding checks, regression suites, and human review loops.
• Work with cloud-native databases & storage (S3, Postgres, GCS, BigQuery, Databricks) with strong SQL and data modelling skills.
• Build rapid AI prototypes and experiment with different models, retrieval strategies, prompts, and approaches to find what works best.
• Partner with product managers, data engineers and backend/frontend engineers to translate business problems into well-scoped AI solutions with measurable KPIs.
• Document architectures, design decisions, runbooks, prompts, evaluation results and troubleshooting guides to enable knowledge continuity and team velocity.

Kenntnisse

AI systems design

LLMs

GenAI

Python

SQL

Experimentation

RAG pipelines

Ausbildung

Bachelor's or higher in CS/Data Science

Tools

Pinecone

Weaviate

LangGraph

LangChain

MAStra

LlamaIndex

CrewAI

AutoGen

BigQuery

Databricks

Spark

OpenAI API

Anthropic API

Jobbeschreibung

Coursera is seeking a highly skilled AI Specialist with strong hands-on expertise in AI and data to turn ambiguous business problems into working AI solutions. This role focuses on modern LLM and GenAI systems, designing AI pipelines, and rapid prototyping to deliver measurable results.

The ideal candidate will work with product managers, data analysts, and software engineers, deploying scalable AI workflows such as RAG architectures and agent workflows.