AI Engineer (Plano)

Location: Plano, TX (Onsite 3 days/week)
CANDIDATES MUST BE LOCAL TO PLANO, TX - NOT ACCEPTING RELOCATION
Status: Urgent / Immediate Hire
Are you ready to build the systems that make AI reliable, measurable, and production-ready? Our client, a multinational telecommunications technology leader, is looking for mid-level AI Engineers to join their team in Plano, TX and help define how large language models are evaluated, monitored, and integrated into real-world systems.
This is a rare opportunity to work at the intersection of AI innovation and enterprise-scale infrastructure, with direct impact on how millions of users experience next-generation technology.
What You'll Do:
- Build and maintain an LLM evaluation framework, including golden datasets, regression tests, scoring rubrics, quality thresholds, and trend tracking for non-deterministic outputs
- Implement full observability for LLM pipelines: structured logging, metrics, dashboards, alerting, latency breakdowns, error taxonomies, and token/cost tracking
- Design and integrate tool-calling and agent skills, including function calling, tool interfaces, input/output schemas, guardrails, and structured outputs into data pipelines and services
What You'll Gain:
- Hands-on ownership of cutting-edge AI evaluation and observability systems
- Exposure to large-scale, real-world AI infrastructure challenges
- A collaborative environment with top engineers solving problems that have never been solved before
- The chance to shape best practices for responsible, high-performing AI at a global scale
If you would like to learn more, please reach out to Elite Technical

Required Skills

Required Skills:
- Candidate must have 5+ years of hands-on experience in Software & Data Engineering and GenAI using LangGraph, LangChain, and Agentic design, development, and production deployment.
- Experience productionizing AI/ML or LLM-powered workflows (using LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI etc.) with a focus on reliability, reproducibility, and auditability
- Strong understanding of LLMOps fundamentals, including prompt/model/config versioning and traceable run metadata.
- Hands-on experience in Python, Pyspark/Spark, NO-SQL (MongoDB), SQL- PostgreSQL, Redis, Databricks, Delta Lake, Azure Cloud
- Demonstrated curiosity and self-learning ability in fast-evolving GenAI industry; able to iterate quickly and then harden solutions for production
- Experience with API reliability patterns relevant to model calls (rate limiting, retries/backoff, circuit breakers, timeouts, idempotency, replay/backfill)