Senior AI Engineer
Remote
Contracted
Mid Level
Title / Designation – Senior AI Engineer
Number of positions – 2
Duration - 6 months Contract + Possibility of an extension
Location – 100% Remote USA / Canada
Working Model – Remote
Number of Internal interviews with Nagarro – 1 OR 2
Client Interviews – 2
Mode of Interviews – Virtual
Tentative start date – ASAP
Experience Required – 8 – 10 Years
Must have Skills:
- 2+ years of experience developing and experimenting with LLMs.
- 8+ years of experience developing APIs with Python.
- Hands-on, daily use of AI-assisted and agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, autonomous coding agents) to write and refactor code, automate workflows, and optimize engineering processes.
- Python (Strong), FastAPI (Strong), Prompt Engineering with LLMs (Strong), Architecture (Strong), Agentic coding tools.
Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Experience with LLM guardrails - Experience with LLM Frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex).
- Experience with LLM monitoring and observability.
Job Description:
- Strong experience with Python, particularly in building REST APIs using frameworks like FastAPI.
- Grounding in NLP and machine learning as they relate to building LLM systems.
- Strong experience working with key LLM models APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic).
- Experience building, deploying, and securing MCP servers at scale.
- Understanding of multi-agent systems and their applications in complex problem-solving scenarios.
- Designing and implementing RAG systems end to end: vector databases, semantic search, retrieval quality, and chunking strategy.
- Experience with prompt writing for various use cases.
- Experience with generative solutions released to prod, at scale, beyond POCs.
- Proficiency with server-side events, event-driven architectures, and messaging systems.
- Strong critical thinking and systems thinking skills, with experience debugging, optimizing, and making sound engineering decisions across complex backend systems, not just solving isolated problems.
- Solid understanding of security best practices for backend systems, including authentication and data protection.
- Experience developing AI/ML technologies within large and business critical applications.
- Building evaluation into LLM systems: eval harnesses, regression suites, LLM-as-judge, and offline/online quality metrics.
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