AI Engineer (LLMs & Generative AI)

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AI/ML Engineer - Generative AI- Bilingual
Location: Medellín | Onsite
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled AI Engineer (LLMs & Generative AI) to design, build, and scale enterprise-grade AI systems powered by large language models, generative AI technologies, and massive datasets.
This role is ideal for an experienced engineer with hands-on expertise deploying LLM-powered applications in production environments, implementing AI guardrails and responsible AI practices, and building scalable AI solutions across complex enterprise ecosystems.
You will play a key role in shaping the organization’s AI capabilities — from model orchestration and retrieval systems to safety, governance, and performance optimization — while collaborating with global teams in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment.
We are especially interested in bilingual (English/Spanish) professionals who can effectively collaborate across technical and business stakeholders internationally.
Key Responsibilities
LLM & Generative AI Development
  • Design, develop, and deploy applications powered by LLMs and generative AI models.
  • Build AI solutions for enterprise search, document intelligence, summarization, conversational AI, workflow automation, and knowledge management.
  • Work with both commercial and open-source LLMs based on business and technical requirements.
  • Optimize prompts, model parameters, inference pipelines, and latency/cost tradeoffs.
  • Develop scalable APIs and backend services supporting AI-driven applications.
AI Guardrails & Responsible AI
  • Design and implement AI guardrails to ensure safe, reliable, and policy-compliant outputs.
  • Develop mechanisms for:
  • Hallucination mitigation
  • Content filtering and moderation
  • Prompt injection defense
  • Output validation and verification
  • Access and usage controls
  • Build evaluation frameworks to measure safety, groundedness, consistency, accuracy, and model reliability.
  • Partner with security and compliance teams to align AI systems with enterprise governance standards.
Massive Data & RAG Systems
  • Work with large-scale structured and unstructured enterprise datasets.
  • Design and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.
  • Build workflows for:
  • Data ingestion and preprocessing
  • Chunking and embeddings
  • Vector indexing and semantic retrieval
  • Context ranking and relevance optimization
  • Collaborate with data engineering teams to ensure scalability and high performance across distributed systems.
Model Orchestration & Evaluation
  • Implement orchestration strategies across multiple models and APIs.
  • Develop fallback, routing, and hybrid model strategies to optimize performance and cost.
  • Define and monitor evaluation metrics for model quality and reliability.
  • Conduct benchmarking, A/B testing, and continuous optimization of AI systems.
Engineering & Deployment
  • Build production-grade AI systems using modern software engineering best practices.
  • Integrate AI services into enterprise applications, APIs, and workflows.
  • Support CI/CD pipelines, testing, versioning, observability, and monitoring for AI platforms.
  • Ensure systems are scalable, secure, observable, and cost-efficient.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Partner with product, engineering, data, and business teams to translate requirements into AI-driven solutions.
  • Communicate technical concepts clearly to global stakeholders.
  • Contribute to architecture decisions, reusable AI frameworks, and technical documentation.
  • Collaborate effectively in English-speaking international environments.


Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, AI, or machine learning roles.
  • Strong hands-on experience building applications using LLMs and generative AI technologies.
  • Experience working with large-scale enterprise data environments.
  • Deep understanding of:
    Prompt engineering
    RAG architectures
    AI evaluation frameworks
    AI safety and guardrails
    Strong programming expertise in Python and backend development.
    Experience designing and deploying production-ready AI systems.
    Fluent English communication skills (required).
    Bilingual English/Spanish communication skills preferred.
Preferred Technical Experience
  • Experience with:
  • LangChain
  • LlamaIndex
  • Semantic Kernel
  • Hugging Face ecosystem
  • OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Anthropic APIs
  • Experience with vector databases such as:
  • Pinecone
  • Weaviate
  • FAISS
  • Knowledge of:
  • Embeddings and semantic search
  • Model fine-tuning and adaptation techniques
  • AI observability and monitoring tools
  • Familiarity with:
  • AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Databricks
  • Apache Spark
  • Distributed data systems
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • MLOps pipelines and AI lifecycle management
  • Understanding of AI security, privacy, governance, and enterprise access controls.
Preferred Certifications
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate
  • AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty
  • Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer
  • Databricks Machine Learning Certification
  • TensorFlow Developer Certificate
  • Certifications in Responsible AI, AI Governance, or Data Engineering