LLM Applications Engineer (Remote, Kimberley)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Noord-Kaap; Remote; ZAR 2,028,000 - 3,042,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking an LLM Applications Engineer to own and ship internal automation roadmaps. You will work on production-grade LLM systems used daily by the team, focusing on tool use, evals, and robust failure handling.

This is a full-time, solo-role commitment with a remote setup covering Latin America and South Africa. You should have hands-on experience deploying RESTful services and cloud deployments with real users.

Qualifications

• 2+ years building production software in Python or TypeScript/Node.js.
• At least one LLM or agent system you built yourself that ran in production with real users.
• Hands-on tool use, evals and failure handling: validating model output, retries, human approval.
• REST APIs, webhooks and cloud deployment.

Responsibilities

• Own and ship our internal automation roadmap: production LLM and agent systems that real people on our team use daily.
• Develop integrations and tools to reduce manual work across delivery, sales ops and project management.
• Build evals and guardrails to ensure safe, reliable model behavior.

Skills

Strong spoken English

Tools

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

LLM/agent systems

REST APIs

Webhooks

Cloud deployment

Job description

About The Role

Blacksmith Agency is building AI into every part of how we work. As LLM Applications Engineer at Blacksmith, you own and ship our internal automation roadmap: production LLM and agent systems that real people on our team use every day. This is a builder role, not research. You will not train models. We hire engineers who have already shipped an LLM system to production and can walk us through it in detail: what it did, how it was built, what broke and what they changed. This is a full-time seat and it has to be your only job.

Blacksmith Agency

• Engineering
• Full time, your only job
• Remote (Latin America and South Africa)

What You Will Build

• Agents and workflows with tool use and function calling on Anthropic and OpenAI, with a framework or plain APIs.
• Evals that prove a change made things better, and guardrails that stop a model taking a wrong or unsafe action.
• Integrations connecting WordPress, Figma, Google Workspace, Slack and our internal systems, including MCP servers.
• Internal tools that take measurable hours off delivery, sales operations and project management.

What You Bring

• 2+ years building production software in Python or TypeScript / Node.js.
• At least one LLM or agent system you built yourself that ran in production with real users.
• Hands-on tool use, evals and failure handling: validating model output, retries, human approval.
• REST APIs, webhooks and cloud deployment.
• Strong spoken English. You will talk through technical decisions on live calls with a US team.

Not a fit if

• You freelance or contract for other clients and would keep them alongside this job.
• Your LLM work is demos, tutorials or chat prompting, or your focus is model training and research.