AI Application Engineer - Santa Clara, CA (Hybrid)
Sid K
Hi Folks,
My
client is looking for AI Application Engineer for 12 Month Contract role
based in Santa Clara, CA (Hybrid)
Position: AI Application Engineer
Location: Santa Clara, CA (Hybrid)
Duration:
12 Month Contract
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
Design, develop, and optimize production-grade LLM-powered applications
Own AI quality, RAG accuracy, prompt engineering, and AI safety across multiple applications
Develop and maintain multi-step LLM orchestration pipelines using LangChain, LlamaIndex, or custom frameworks
Implement and optimize RAG pipelines including chunking strategies, embedding selection, reranking, and hybrid search
Design multi-turn conversational AI experiences with context management and session memory
Integrate NVIDIA technologies including NIM, NeMo, NeMoGuardrails, and Riva into enterprise AI applications
Build automated evaluation pipelines for model quality, hallucination detection, regression testing, and release gating
Perform latency profiling and optimization across multi-step LLM call chains
Implement AI safety guardrails including prompt injection prevention, jailbreak mitigation, and topical control
Collaborate with globally distributed engineering and product teams to deliver scalable AI solutions
Support deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement of AI applications in production environments
Basic Qualifications:
4–7 years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years focused on production LLM application development
Expert-level experience with Python for AI/ML application development and async programming
Strong expertise in prompt engineering including system prompts, few-shot prompting, and instruction tuning
3+ Years of Hands-on experience with multi-step LLM orchestration frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex
3+ Years of Experience designing and optimizing RAG pipelines and retrieval systems
3+ Years of Experience with vector databases, similarity search tuning, and reranking techniques
3+ Years of Hands-on experience with NVIDIA NIM, NeMo, NeMoGuardrails, and Riva
3+ Years of Experience implementing AI safety and guardrails for customer-facing applications
Strong knowledge of automated AI evaluation frameworks such as RAGAS or TruLens
3+ Years of Experience profiling and optimizing latency in multi-step AI pipelines
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