Senior Applied AI Engineer – Talent Connection
Nearsure
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Anywhere in Latin America
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About the role
- Design and optimize VLM prompts for document classification, text extraction, and rule validation tasks.
- Build and run evaluation pipelines to measure accuracy, cost, and latency across model configurations.
- Benchmark new models (Azure OpenAI, others) and recommend upgrades based on quality/cost tradeoffs.
- Implement structured output extraction from LLMs using function calling, JSON mode, and Pydantic-based parsing.
- Maintain and extend a Python service layer (FastAPI, queue-based workers) and a Next.js frontend.
- Build scalable, fault-tolerant AI pipelines using Azure components such as App Services, Blob Storage, and queues.
- Monitor, debug, and resolve production issues across AI and application layers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ Years building production systems with Python & Backend Engineering, focusing on FastAPI, async processing, and APIs.
- 2+ Years working with LLMs in real-world use cases, including Applied AI, Azure OpenAI, prompting, and structured outputs.
- Hands-on experience building and operating Cloud & Distributed Systems, with a focus on Azure, storage, queues, and scalability.
- Experience measuring and improving model performance through Evaluation & Optimization, including metrics, benchmarking, and cost/latency tradeoffs.
- Working knowledge of Frontend development with Next.js and React to support end-to-end projects.
- Advanced English Level is required for this role, as you will work with US clients. Effective communication in English is essential to deliver the best solutions to our clients and expand your horizons.
Benefits
- Competitive USD salary
- 100% remote work
- Paid time off
- National Holidays celebrated
- Sick leave
- Refundable Annual Credit
- Team-building activities
- Birthday day off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonFastAPIasync processingAPIsLLMsAzure OpenAIPydanticJSONevaluation pipelinesdocument classification
Soft Skills
effective communicationproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptabilitycritical thinkingattention to detailtime managementcreativityleadershipclient engagement