Vertex - Applied AI Engineer

AI Developer is needed in Austin, United States.

Client: Vertex

Location: Austin, TX, us

Contract: Freelance

Job Description

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 include:

• 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 models, cost, and performance.
• Clear evidence of shipped AI features used by real users.

Additional Information

For this role, selection into the Vertex Talent pool is based on experience, technical depth, and demonstrated production impact.

• An energized, upbeat environment that strongly fosters employee work-life balance.
• A work culture that rewards goal-oriented professionals who enjoy meeting challenges head-on.
• Amazing personal growth experience.
• Working with a motivated and talented team.
• More importantly, an opportunity to meaningfully contribute to bringing cutting-edge Tech solutions to life.