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LTS

Senior Applied AI Engineer

LTS

Senior Applied AI Engineer focusing on improving AI capabilities for legacy software modernizations at LTS. Collaborating with engineers and transforming AI advancements into production-ready solutions.

Posted 7/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in developing production-ready AI applications, particularly with Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Proficient in prompt engineering, embeddings, and evaluating AI model performance to drive continuous improvement and enhance AI capabilities.

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Production AI Application DevelopmentRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) SystemsPrompt EngineeringPython ProgrammingAI Frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain, etc.)

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Hard Skills
Large Language Models (LLMs)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Prompt EngineeringEmbeddingsSemantic SearchVector DatabasesAI Model Performance EvaluationExperimentation FrameworksPython ProgrammingCloud-Native Applications
Soft Skills
Analytical SkillsProblem-Solving SkillsCommunication SkillsIntellect and CuriosityCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
LangGraphLangChainLlamaIndexSemantic KernelCrewAIAutoGenREST APIsDistributed Software Systems
Industry Keywords
Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSoftware EngineeringData ScienceAI Systems Development

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Design, prototype, and implement production-ready AI capabilities that improve reasoning, accuracy, explainability, and developer productivity.
  • Evaluate emerging LLMs, multimodal models, agent frameworks, and AI techniques to identify opportunities for platform advancement.
  • Rapidly prototype new AI capabilities and transition successful experiments into production.
  • Improve autonomous and multi-agent workflows through prompt engineering, reasoning optimization, memory strategies, tool selection, and context management.
  • Continuously refine Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, retrieval strategies, embeddings, reranking, and grounding techniques.
  • Improve AI response quality through experimentation, benchmarking, and iterative optimization.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks that measure accuracy, groundedness, explainability, latency, and overall AI effectiveness.
  • Build benchmark datasets, automated evaluation pipelines, and performance metrics for production AI systems.
  • Analyze AI failures, hallucinations, retrieval gaps, and reasoning errors to drive continuous improvement.
  • Collaborate with software engineers to improve knowledge ingestion, document processing, semantic search, embeddings, and enterprise knowledge management.
  • Design approaches that maximize retrieval quality across large technical documentation and source code repositories.
  • Improve how AI agents discover, organize, and reason over enterprise knowledge.
  • Partner closely with AI architects, platform engineers, software engineers, and front-end engineers to improve the overall intelligence of the platform.
  • Share research findings, experimental results, and engineering recommendations with cross-functional teams.
  • Help establish best practices for experimentation, evaluation, and AI quality throughout the organization.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent professional experience).
  • 5+ years of software engineering, applied AI, machine learning, or AI systems development experience.
  • Demonstrated experience developing production AI applications powered by Large Language Models (LLMs).
  • Experience designing and optimizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
  • Experience with prompt engineering, embeddings, semantic search, vector databases, and knowledge retrieval.
  • Experience evaluating AI model performance and implementing experimentation frameworks.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and experience with modern software engineering practices.
  • Experience with AI frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar.
  • Experience with using AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow.
  • Familiarity with REST APIs, cloud-native applications, and distributed software systems.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • Intellect and curiosity for AI systems and how they behave.
  • Deep passion for experimenting with new AI techniques.
  • Background in evaluation, explainability, and continuous improvement.
  • Proven success with ownership of difficult technical challenges and collaboration across disciplines.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • The Opportunity to support high-visibility federal missions
  • A culture that values innovation, growth, and collaboration
  • Access to cutting-edge tools and technologies
  • Comprehensive benefits for you and your family
  • A career path that rewards ambition and performance