Distinguished LLM Engineer

Trident Consulting is seeking a "Distinguished LLM Engineer " to join usRole: 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 Design- Own 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 Diversity- Build 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 Engineering- Innovate 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 Frameworks- Design communication protocols, memory systems, and goal-oriented reasoning agents. - Build adaptive, long-running, multi-agent systems for collaborative AI workflows.LLM-Powered Experience Design- Develop AI-driven features that support people during high-need moments—campaign writing, customer support, nonprofit engagement, and more.Full-Stack AI Engineering- Deliver end-to-end AI systems across AWS/GCP, microservices, observability, caching, and CI/CD pipelines.Reusable AI Assets- Build internal frameworks: evaluation harnesses, agent libraries, contextual adapters, and prompt repositories for scale and reuse.AI IP Development- Partner with legal and R&D teams to formalize and protect proprietary AI innovations—frameworks, pipelines, and potentially patentable systems.What You Bring- 15+ 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 Qualifications- Experience 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.Trident Consulting is a premier IT staffing firm providing high-impact workforce solutions to Fortune 500 and mid-market clients. Since 2005, we've specialized in sourcing elite technology and engineering talent for contract, direct hire, and managed services roles. Our expertise spans cloud, AI/ML, cybersecurity, and data analytics, supported by a 3M+ candidate database and a 78% fill ratio. With a highly engaged leadership team and a reputation for delivering hard-to-fill, niche talent, we help organizations build agile, high-performing teams that drive innovation and business success. Learn more: tridentconsultinginc.com.Some of our recent awards include:- Trailblazer Women Award 2025 by Consulate General of India in San Francisco. - Ranked as the #1 Women Owned Business Enterprise in the large category by ITServe.Received the TechServe Excellence award.