Senior Applied AI Engineer — LLMs, RAG, Production

Hyundai Autoever America; Irvine, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & dental coverage

Generous PTO

Education assistance

Annual merit increase

Job summary

Hyundai AutoEver America is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer - Applied AI to design, build, and operationalize real-world AI solutions for automotive apps. You will create LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows from prototype to production.

You’ll translate business needs into scalable AI systems, integrate models into cloud environments, and collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to deliver user-centric AI capabilities.

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science, engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in AI/ML solution development.
• Proven production-ready AI systems including LLM-based apps and RAG pipelines.
• Experience with multi‑agent orchestration and modern agent frameworks.
• Strong Python and AI tooling knowledge (TensorFlow/PyTorch, HuggingFace).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement applied AI solutions, including LLM apps, RAG pipelines, agents, and generative tools.
• Develop full‑stack AI applications with front-end interfaces and cloud integration.
• Build production‑ready AI systems integrated with enterprise platforms and automotive apps.
• Lead experiments, PoCs/MVPs, refine prompts, and improve model performance and reliability.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to meet governance, privacy, and security standards.

Skills

Python

LLM frameworks

Pinecone

ChromaDB

FAISS

TensorFlow/PyTorch

HuggingFace

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

AutoGen

CrewAI

n8n

React

Docker

Kubernetes

MCP

Education

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering or a related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS SageMaker/Bedrock

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Foundry

Job description

Hyundai AutoEver America is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer - Applied AI to design, build, and operationalize real-world AI solutions for automotive apps. You will create LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows from prototype to production.

You’ll translate business needs into scalable AI systems, integrate models into cloud environments, and collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to deliver user-centric AI capabilities.