Core Must-Have Requirements (Non-Negotiable)
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Agentic AI Experience
Built AI agents in production.
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Experience with memory systems, RAG, retrieval pipelines, tool calling, workflow orchestration.
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Worked with frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, etc.
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Experience designing multi-step agent workflows rather than simple chatbot integrations.
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Self-Hosted Model Deployment
Hands-on experience deploying and serving open-source models.
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Experience with:
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vLLM
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Triton Inference Server
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Ollama (less preferred)
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TGI (Text Generation Inference)
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Strong understanding of GPU utilization, batching, latency optimization, throughput, and inference costs.
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LLM Gateway & Orchestration
Experience managing multiple model providers and routing strategies.
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Exposure to:
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LiteLLM
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Portkey
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OpenRouter
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Custom LLM gateways
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Model selection, fallback logic, observability, rate limiting, and cost controls.
Strongly Preferred
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Production AI Infrastructure
Kubernetes
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Docker
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GCP (preferred) or AWS
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CI/CD for ML systems
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Monitoring and alerting
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Evaluation & Observability
Building evaluation frameworks
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A/B testing models
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Tracking metrics such as:
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WER (speech)
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DER (diarization)
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Recall/F1 (retrieval)
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Latency
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Cost per request
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Experience with Langfuse, Arize, Weights & Biases, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.
Good-to-Have
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Speech/Audio AI
Whisper, Deepgram, AssemblyAI, Speechmatics
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Speaker diarization
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Voice identification
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Real-time audio pipelines
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Research Background
Publications
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Applied ML research
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Fine-tuning models
Ideal Candidate Background
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3–5 years of AI/ML Engineering experience.
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Strong Python engineer.
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Has built and shipped agentic AI systems.
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Has deployed and optimized self-hosted LLMs.
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Understands model serving, observability, evaluation, and infrastructure.
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Audio/STT experience is a bonus, not mandatory.