Lead Applied AI Specialist

Lead Applied AI Specialist (Remote)
#vacancy #python #llm #senior

We're hiring a Lead Applied AI Specialist to drive AI in a high‑load document processing product. You'll work with 3 strong AI engineers set technical direction, and build production systems end‑to‑end.

What you'll do:
- Design & deploy agentic pipelines, RAG, multimodal document processing (OCR, PDF parsing)
- Build scalable inference with vLLM, batching, caching, streaming
- Work with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic) + custom models (PyTorch, HuggingFace)
- Own quality, latency, cost, observability (Prometheus, Grafana)
- Ship features – from experiments to production, with CI/CD (Docker, Cloud Run, Terraform)

What we're looking for:
- Strong Python, microservices
- Production experience with model serving (vLLM or similar) – you've deployed your own work
- Hands‑on experience with agentic systems
- Deep knowledge of RAG, retrieval, embedding pipelines
- Experience guiding other engineers (no babysitting – you're a guru)
- Autonomous, great communicator, fluent English

Nice to have: GCP, OpenTelemetry, OCR/PDF expertise, inference optimization

✅ Remote
✅ Competitive salary
✅ High‑load product, million‑user audience

👉 DM for details / apply @amarkova_rockits