Distinguished LLM Engineer

Trident Consulting is looking for a " Distinguished LLM Engineer - Chennai/ Tirunelveli/ Coimbatore" .Role: Distinguished LLM Engineer Location: Chennai/ Tirunelveli/ Coimbatore Type: Fulltime Salary:Depends on your experience and the current market rateDo you want to use your AI expertise to drive real-world impact? We’re hiring aDistinguished LLM Engineerto lead some of our most strategic and ambitious AI initiatives. In this highly technical, high-impact role, you’ll architect, build, and scale advancedmulti-modal LLM and agentic systemsthat 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 inresponsibility, transparency, and performance .What You’ll Do LLM 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.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.