AI Product

Senior AI Engineer

Our client, an AI product company, is building production-grade LLM and retrieval systems used by technical users every day and is growing a small, senior engineering team focused on practical AI applications built with Python, PyTorch, FastAPI and AWS.

If you feel this role is right for you, we’d love to hear from you.

OPENFull-time3+ yearsJob Ref · EI-JOB-472PythonPyTorchLLMRAGAWS
Location
Ukraine · Fully Remote
Salary range
USD 45K–55K
Employment type
Full-time
Company size
6–10 employees

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build and ship LLM-powered features from prototype through production.
  • Build and improve retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, including embeddings, vector search, ranking and evaluation.
  • Develop agentic and multi-step AI workflows on top of the OpenAI API and other LLM APIs.
  • Expose AI capabilities through FastAPI services and well-designed REST APIs.
  • Establish evaluation, observability and monitoring processes to identify quality, latency and reliability issues.
  • Optimise model performance, infrastructure cost and production reliability on AWS.
  • Package and deploy services with Docker and maintain CI/CD pipelines with Git.
  • Work closely with product, design and engineering teams to turn AI opportunities into practical product features.

Technical Skills

  • 3+ years of professional AI/ML engineering experience.
  • Strong Python fundamentals and production software-engineering practice.
  • Hands-on experience with PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers.
  • Experience with LLM APIs, including the OpenAI API, and with RAG in production AI applications.
  • Experience building backend services with FastAPI and REST APIs.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis.
  • Experience with vector databases and vector search, such as pgvector, Pinecone or Qdrant.
  • Experience with Docker and deploying workloads on AWS.
  • Comfortable with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Understanding of LLM evaluation, AI observability and model-performance optimisation.
  • Experience with production model deployment and monitoring.

Language Requirements

  • Ukrainian: Native proficiency (required for this position)
  • English: B1 (Intermediate)

Assessment

Test Task Required

Benefits

  • Fully remote position within Ukraine.
  • 24 days paid vacation
  • 3-month probation period.
  • Internet expense allowance.
  • Medical insurance.

Please mention the Job Reference Number in the subject line of your application.

Job Reference: EI-JOB-472

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