LLM or GenAI Application Engineer

FocusKPI is looking for an LLM or GenAI Application Engineer to join one of our clients, a high-tech SaaS company.

An LLM or GenAI Application Engineer or LLM Research Engineer role is mainly focused on the consumer-facing applications. The role will be a part of the core GenAI AI development team within the client. It primarily contributes to LLM-based application development, evaluation, and testing of new features, as well as core technology, such as an agent framework, utilizing the latest technology. stack, LLM technology.
Work Location: Mountain View, CA
Duration: 12-month contract; Hybrid role (4 days per week onsite)
Pay Range: $110/hr to $120/hr
**No C2C resumes are considered**
Role & Responsibilities:

• Design, train, and fine-tune large language models (e.g., GPT, LLaMA, PaLM) for various applications.
• Research cutting-edge techniques in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning to improve model performance.
• Explore advancements in transformer architectures, multi-modal models, and emergent AI behaviors.
• Collect, clean, and preprocess large-scale text datasets from diverse sources.
• Develop and implement data augmentation techniques to improve training data quality.
• Ensure data is free from bias and aligned with ethical AI standards.
• Optimize model architecture to improve accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
• Implement techniques to reduce latency, memory footprint, and inference time for real-time applications.
• Collaborate with MLOps teams to deploy LLMs into production environments using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud.
• Develop robust evaluation pipelines to measure model performance using key metrics like accuracy, perplexity, BLEU, and F1 score.
• Continuously test for bias, fairness, and robustness of language models across diverse datasets.
• Conduct A/B testing to evaluate model improvements in real-world applications.
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in generative AI, transformers, and NLP research.
• Contribute to research papers, patents, and open-source projects—present findings and insights at conferences and internal knowledge-sharing sessions. 

• Required to have 5-7 years of industrial work experience along with research/academic experience.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related field.
• Strong programming skills.
• Expertise with LLM and GenAI application development.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or JAX.
• Hands-on experience with transformer-based models (e.g., GPT, BERT, RoBERTa, LLaMA).
• Expertise in natural language processing (NLP) and sequence-to-sequence models.
• Familiarity with Hugging Face libraries and OpenAI APIs.
• Experience with MLOps tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of distributed computing and GPU acceleration using CUDA.
• Knowledge of reinforcement learning and RLHF (Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback).

Top 3 skills (must have):

• The candidate must have a real (actual) product experience, application development, and GenAI-based application shipping.
• Actual or Industrial LLM or GenAI application experience of at least 2-3 years

Thank you!

FocusKPI Hiring Team

Founded in 2010, FocusKPI, Inc. (FocusKPI) is a data science and technology firm specializing in predictive analytics practice and methodologies. FocusKPI is a US company headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, with an East Coast office in Boston, Massachusetts.