Distinguished LLM Engineer

Job Description 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 rate Do 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 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 strategiesAPI and self-hostedoptimizing 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 momentscampaign 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 innovationsframeworks, 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.