AI Engineer — LLM / VLM
Skills
About the role
This is a remote AI engineering role based in India for someone who will design and deploy production AI systems built on large language models and vision-language models. It suits an engineer who can turn AI prototypes into reliable production services spanning text and multimodal document understanding. The listing is managed by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company, with the role structured as remote and based in Kolkata.
What you’ll do
- Design, develop and deploy production-ready applications powered by LLMs and VLMs
- Build end-to-end RAG pipelines covering ingestion, chunking, embedding, retrieval, reranking and generation
- Work with foundation and multimodal models including GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral and Qwen
- Develop multimodal solutions that reason across text, images, PDFs, charts and tables
- Apply prompt engineering, supervised fine-tuning, LoRA and QLoRA for model adaptation
- Build AI agents and tool-calling workflows combining reasoning, retrieval and business processes
- Optimize model inference and serving for latency, throughput and cost
- Develop production APIs using Python, FastAPI and Docker
- Create evaluation frameworks to measure accuracy, hallucination rate, latency and safety
What they’re looking for
- Strong Python programming and software engineering fundamentals
- Hands-on professional experience with LLMs and/or VLMs
- Solid understanding of transformers, attention, tokenization and embeddings
- Practical experience with PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers
- Experience designing and implementing RAG systems and vector search
- Knowledge of prompt engineering and LLM evaluation methodologies
- Experience with APIs, Git, Docker and CI/CD
- Familiarity with vector databases such as FAISS, Milvus, Pinecone, Weaviate or pgvector
- Understanding of cloud AI infrastructure on AWS, Azure or GCP
Nice to have
- Experience with multimodal models such as Qwen-VL, LLaVA, Gemini or GPT vision models
- OCR, document intelligence, image classification, object detection or visual question answering experience
What’s on offer
- Remote work from India, role based in Kolkata
- Full-time position in a technology-focused AI environment
- Hands-on exposure to LLMs, VLMs, RAG, agents and model serving
- Work on production-grade systems rather than prototypes only
Questions about this role
Is this role remote?
Yes, it is remote and based in India (Kolkata).
How many years of experience do I need?
The posting does not state a minimum number of years, only that hands-on professional experience with LLMs or VLMs is required.
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