Distinguished LLM Engineer

Trident Consulting is looking for a "Distinguished LLM Engineer - Chennai/ Tirunelveli/ Coimbatore".Role: Distinguished LLM EngineerLocation: Chennai/ Tirunelveli/ CoimbatoreType: FulltimeSalary: Depends on your experience and the current market rateDo you want to use your AI expertise to drive real-world impact? We’re hiring a Distinguished LLM Engineer to lead some of our most strategic and ambitious AI initiatives. In this highly technical, high-impact role, you’ll architect, build, and scale advanced multi-modal LLM and agentic systems that power innovative applications like storytelling, support automation, donor activation, fraud detection, and more.This is an opportunity to shape the future of human-AI collaboration by designing scalable infrastructure, context-aware systems, and intelligent agents grounded in responsibility, transparency, and performance.What You’ll DoLLM System DesignOwn the entire model lifecycle: training, fine-tuning, distillation, quantization, inference, and live serving.Ensure models behave safely and transparently, using techniques like RLHF, guardrails, and sandboxing.Model DiversityBuild with a range of foundation models: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, LLaMA, Titan, Mistral, and open-source variants.Implement hybrid strategies—API and self-hosted—optimizing for latency, cost, and risk.Context EngineeringInnovate on Model Context Protocols, prompt chaining, vector stores, and secure data conditioning.Integrate user history, RAG pipelines, and knowledge graphs with privacy-aware filters.Agentic FrameworksDesign communication protocols, memory systems, and goal-oriented reasoning agents.Build adaptive, long-running, multi-agent systems for collaborative AI workflows.LLM-Powered Experience DesignDevelop AI-driven features that support people during high-need moments—campaign writing, customer support, nonprofit engagement, and more.Full-Stack AI EngineeringDeliver end-to-end AI systems across AWS/GCP, microservices, observability, caching, and CI/CD pipelines.Reusable AI AssetsBuild internal frameworks: evaluation harnesses, agent libraries, contextual adapters, and prompt repositories for scale and reuse.AI IP DevelopmentPartner with legal and R&D teams to formalize and protect proprietary AI innovations—frameworks, pipelines, and potentially patentable systems.What You Bring15+ years in software and ML engineering, with 3+ years building LLM-powered systems.Expert in transformer models and LLM toolchains (GPT, Gemini, LLaMA, Mistral, PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, LoRA, etc.).Deep experience with prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG, model ensembling, and agentic architectures.Full-stack systems fluency across cloud infra, APIs, caching, observability, and GPU orchestration.Comfort with agent-based systems, contextual memory, and finite-state or goal-oriented planning.Strong communication and leadership across product, engineering, data science, and executive stakeholders.Bonus QualificationsExperience building AI for nonprofits, social impact, or safety-critical applications.Research, patents, or open-source contributions in generative AI.Familiarity with MLOps, fairness auditing, privacy-preserving techniques, or model interpretability tools.About Trident: Trident Consulting is an award-winning IT/engineering staffing company founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Ramon, CA. We specialize in placing high-quality vetted technology and engineering professionals in contract and full-time roles. Trident's commitment is to deliver the best and brightest individuals in the industry for our clients' toughest requirements.