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AI Engineer (LLM Gateway, FM Hosting)

USA💼 Full-time💰 $229,900–$286,200🗓 2026-09-20 → 2026-09-29

Core

Design, build, and optimize large-scale production AI systems, specifically LLM gateways and foundation model hosting, to improve associate workflows and customer interactions.

Role type

Senior IC AI Engineer (LLM Gateway & Foundation Model Hosting)

Builds

Scalable, responsible AI systems including LLM inference, agentic workflows, similarity search, and multi-model orchestration pipelines.

Domain

Financial Services / Large Language Models / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM inference optimization, agentic AI system design, multi-model orchestration, cost-performance governance, model right-sizing, vector search, guardrails, cloud platform deployment, hardware utilization optimization, ethical AI standards enforcement

Preferred skills

Foundation model training, mixed AI system architecture, design council leadership, mentorship of senior engineers

Technologies

AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, VectorDBs, PyTorch, CUDA, Golang, Python, Java, C#, Scala

Responsibilities

Design and implement multi-model orchestration pipelines integrating LLMs and domain-specific models; Lead cost-performance governance reviews tracking GPU utilization and inference costs; Mentor Principal and Manager-level AI engineers; Establish standards for ethical AI deployment including explainability and fairness; Optimize training and inference software for hardware utilization and latency; Architect mixed AI systems combining rule-based, retrieval-augmented, and generative components.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic roadmap influence

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