Artificial Intelligence Engineer

**AI/LLM Engineer

3-Month Contract | Hybrid (San Jose, CA)**

W2 ONLY

Overview:

Our client is seeking an experienced
AI/LLM Engineer
to design, optimize, and deploy large language models for real-world applications. This role combines deep technical expertise in model development with hands-on experience in scalable systems and production integration.

Responsibilities:

• Model Development & Optimization: Design, train, fine-tune, and evaluate large language models (LLMs) to improve performance, efficiency, and alignment with business or research objectives.
• Systems Integration & Deployment: Build scalable inference pipelines, optimize serving infrastructure (e.g., quantization, caching, distillation), and integrate models into products, APIs, or services.
• Research & Collaboration: Experiment with new architectures, prompt-engineering techniques, and retrieval systems. Partner with data science, product, and ML operations teams to translate research into production-ready solutions.

Contract Details:

• Duration: 3-month contract (potential for extension)
• Location: Hybrid — onsite in **San Jose, CA