Avathon
AI Engineer
$110K–$130K
Pleasanton, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Feb 26, 2026
- Experience
- 3–5 years of hands-on industry experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related technical field.
About the job
Designs, builds, and deploys production AI systems, focusing on Generative AI and LLM applications for industrial operations.
What you'll do
- Develop and optimize LLM pipelines, including RAG, fine-tuning, evaluation, and observability.
- Build scalable AI backend services, APIs, vector search, and embedding pipelines.
- Productionize AI workflows and improve system performance, reliability, and responsible AI safeguards.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related technical field.
- 3–5 years of hands-on industry experience in AI Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering, Applied AI, or related roles.
- Production experience building and deploying LLM-based applications; knowledge of transformers, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, RAG, and vector databases.
- Experience with Python, AI/ML frameworks, scalable APIs and backend systems, cloud platforms, and deployment pipelines.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with LLM observability or evaluation tools and frameworks.
- Exposure to MLOps or applied AI in industrial domains.
Pay
$110k - $130k USD base salary annually
Tools
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain, LlamaIndex, AWS, GCP
AI focus
Generative AI and LLM engineering, including RAG, fine-tuning, prompt orchestration, vector search, evaluation, deployment, and responsible AI.
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