AI Platform Engineer

Virtual Vocations Incabout 2 months ago
Huntsville, AL, United States
Remote
Contract
Junior Level (1-3 years)

Job Description

A company is looking for an AI Platform Engineer to work as a consultant for a major merger of two national banks.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and deploy robust embedding pipelines and RAG architectures using LangChain or LlamaIndex
  • Optimize OpenSearch and Vector Database performance for low-latency access to multi-terabyte datasets
  • Implement and manage integrations with OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs, ensuring high availability through retry/fallback logic

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on AI/ML infrastructure in the last 2 years
  • Expert-level proficiency in Python
  • Experience with Vector DBs, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and embedding pipelines
  • Deep understanding of LLM-specific patterns, including token management and cost-reduction strategies
  • Strong proficiency with OpenSearch or similar distributed search engines

Required Skills

LangChain
Vector DBs
AI/ML infrastructure
OpenSearch
distributed search engines
LLM-specific patterns
Python
LlamaIndex
embedding pipelines