Applied AI Engineer

This is a remote position. Vertex is looking for Applied AI Engineers who can take large language models from concept to production and integrate them into real products. We are building a curated pool of senior AI engineers for upcoming roles with partner/ client companies. Selection into the pool is based on experience, technical depth, and demonstrated production impact. Responsibilities - Design and implement LLM-powered features for real-world applications - Build and maintain RAG pipelines, prompt workflows, and evaluation loops - Integrate AI systems with APIs, backend services, and data stores - Optimize models for latency, cost, and reliability in production - Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ship AI features Requirements Strong Python experience and backend engineering fundamentals Hands-on experience deploying LLMs or GenAI systems in production Experience with embeddings, vector databases, and retrieval systems Ability to reason about trade-offs between mod...