Senior / Lead AI Platform Engineer (Full-Stack, Cloud, RAG & LLMs)

CloudQuest Solutions; Ashburn (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit in Ashburn, VA is seeking a senior software engineer to integrate and optimize LLMs, build RAG pipelines, and deploy secure cloud-native services.

You will design backend APIs, front-end UIs, and ensure RBAC and encryption while driving features end-to-end in a fast-growing AI-focused environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years software engineering experience.
• Strong Python or Node.js skills.
• Hands-on LLM and RAG experience.
• Familiarity with Azure cloud services.
• Strong understanding of OAuth/OIDC and identity systems.
• Experience with React or similar UI frameworks.
• DevOps and CI/CD experience.
• Strong system design and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Integrate and optimize LLMs (Azure OpenAI, Claude, Gemini) and build orchestration, prompts, and guardrails.
• Build RAG pipelines (LlamaIndex/Haystack/LangChain), vector search, and document ingestion workflows.
• Develop backend APIs/microservices (Python/Node.js) with secure auth (OAuth/OIDC, Entra ID).
• Build and enhance chat-based UIs/admin dashboards (React/Next.js).
• Deploy cloud-native services to Azure; implement IaC, CI/CD, monitoring, and logging.
• Ensure data protection, RBAC, encryption, and secure development practices.

Skills

Python/Node.js

LLM/RAG experience

Azure cloud

OAuth/OIDC identity

React/UI frameworks

DevOps/CI-CD

System design

Tools

LlamaIndex

Haystack

LangChain

Job description

Responsibilities

• Integrate and optimize LLMs (Azure OpenAI, Claude, Gemini) and build orchestration, prompts, and guardrails
• Build RAG pipelines (LlamaIndex/Haystack/LangChain), vector search, and document ingestion workflows
• Develop backend APIs/microservices (Python/Node.js) with secure auth (OAuth/OIDC, Entra ID)
• Build and enhance chat-based UIs/admin dashboards (React/Next.js)
• Deploy cloud-native services to Azure; implement IaC, CI/CD, monitoring, and logging
• Ensure data protection, RBAC, encryption, and secure development practices

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years software engineering experience
• Strong Python or Node.js skills
• Hands-on LLM and RAG experience
• Familiarity with Azure cloud services
• Strong understanding of OAuth/OIDC and identity systems
• Experience with React or similar UI frameworks
• DevOps and CI/CD experience
• Strong system design and problem-solving skills

Preferred

• Experience with LlamaIndex, Haystack, LangChain
• Security, governance, and compliance experience

Why Join Us

Work with cutting-edge AI technologies, shape architecture decisions, own features end-to-end, and help build next-generation AI capabilities in a high-impact role.