Distinguished LLM Engineer

Trident Consulting is seeking a
"Distinguished LLM Engineer "
to join us

Role: Distinguished LLM Engineer

Location: Chennai/ Tirunelveli/ Coimbatore

Type: Fulltime

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 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:

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.