(EG0014) Senior Applied AI Engineer - Talent Connection
Remote · Brazil
Job Summary
Senior Applied AI Engineer responsible for deploying sophisticated LLM-based systems into production. Design and optimize VLM prompts for document classification, text extraction, and rule validation; build and run evaluation pipelines to measure accuracy, cost, and latency; benchmark Azure OpenAI and other models 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 (App Services, Blob Storage, queues) and monitor/debug production issues across AI and application layers.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ Years building production systems with Python & Backend Engineering
- 2+ Years working with LLMs in real-world use cases
- Experience with Azure OpenAI
- Experience with FastAPI, async processing, and APIs
- Frontend development knowledge with Next.js and React
- Advanced English level for collaboration with US clients
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