Senior LLM Engineer
SmartAssetFull Time
Senior (5 to 8 years)
Candidates must have 7+ years of experience building production applications, with hands-on LLM integration including tool use, retrieval, evaluations, safety/guardrails, and tracing. Strong proficiency in Python (APIs, async, packaging, testing) and TypeScript with React is essential. Experience with databases like PostgreSQL or DynamoDB, log/event pipelines, and a hyperscale cloud platform (AWS preferred) including compute, messaging, storage, CI/CD, observability, and IAM basics is required. Excellent collaboration and communication skills are necessary to partner with internal stakeholders and customers.
The Senior Software Engineer will build agentic services in Python using frameworks like LangGraph and LangChain, integrating with frontier LLMs. Responsibilities include integrating with enterprise platforms and APIs to automate workflows, designing and developing web applications using TypeScript, React, and Tailwind CSS, and creating data and retrieval patterns with databases like PostgreSQL and DynamoDB, including RAG, evaluation, and guardrails. The role also involves building backends in Python with FastAPI, contributing to CI/CD processes, collaborating with DevOps engineers on infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred), and instrumenting services with tests, monitoring, and safe rollback mechanisms.
Cloud innovation and IT modernization services
Effectual specializes in modernizing IT infrastructure for businesses, focusing on cloud innovation. The company helps both commercial enterprises and public sector customers enhance their IT systems by using established methods and cloud solutions to accelerate digital transformation. Effectual's services include modern application development, cloud strategy, data analytics, and generative AI services, all aimed at improving data-driven decision-making. A significant part of their approach is ensuring data security and compliance, which helps businesses mitigate risks and protect their reputations. Additionally, Effectual assists clients in optimizing their cloud costs by reducing technical debt and the total cost of ownership. The goal of Effectual is to turn business challenges into successful outcomes through effective IT modernization.