Applied AI Engineer

Full Time Role ( Not for Contracting )

Hi,
Job Title: Applied AI Engineer
Job Location: Sunnyvale, CA / Austin, TX : Onsite
Job Type: Full Time
Responsibilities:

• Backend/Systems Experience
• 3 years building production backend or distributed systems (pre-AI experience required)

Production AI Systems

• Has shipped AI/LLM features serving real users at scale not just prototypes or demos

Agentic Systems

• Has built AI agents, skills, tools, or MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations

Python

• Proficient for backend development

Secondary Language

• Working knowledge of Go, TypeScript, or Rust

Cloud Infrastructure

• Deep experience with AWS/Google Cloud Platform/Azure cost optimization, compute decisions, not just deployment

Container & Orchestration

• Hands-on with Docker and Kubernetes can build, deploy, debug, and scale services themselves

LLM Integration

• Understands token economics, context limits, rate limiting, structured outputs, API failure modes

LLM Evaluation

• Understands how to evaluate LLM outputs and the inherent challenges (non-determinism, quality measurement, regression detection)

Hands-On Engineer

• Not just an architect writes code, debugs production issues, deploys their own work

________________________________________

Preferred / Differentiators

• Built multi-step agentic workflows with tool use and function calling
• Experience with agent orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, Claude Agent SDK, Google ADK, OpenAI ADK)
• Built guardrails, fallbacks, or graceful degradation for AI systems
• Streaming inference and async agent orchestration
• Cost/latency optimization: caching, batching, prompt compression
• ML observability tools: Langfuse, Arize, Braintrust, W&B
• Retrieval systems (vector search, hybrid search) as a tool, not the focus
  
  

  Thanks & Regards,

  Vijai

  Reveille Technologies Inc,

  Direct: