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Senior LLM Engineer — RAG & agents (contract-to-hire)

Northbeam Inference Labs

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How you'll work, where, and key listing dates.

Employment: Freelance, Full-time
Workplace: Remote
Location: United States · Remote
Compensation: $170k–$220k + equity band · contractor ramp available
Experience level: Senior
Team: Applied LLM
Benefits & perks

About this role

What the team is looking for and how this position fits.

Northbeam Inference Labs — Own retrieval, chunking, and evaluation for customer-facing copilots. Ship tool-calling workflows, latency budgets, and rollback-safe prompt releases.

Remote within US time zones; occasional on-site weeks in NYC.

Skills we're hiring for

Core capabilities—LLMs, automation, analytics, product, or domain expertise.

PythonLangChainOpenAI APIVector DBs

Tools & stack

Platforms and products mentioned for this role (APIs, IDEs, vector DBs, CRMs, design tools, etc.).

DockerAWS

You're a strong fit if…

You've shipped real work with AI—not only experimented in isolation.
Several listed skills or tools show up in your recent projects.
You can explain trade-offs (quality, cost, latency, safety) in plain language.

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What the employer asked for

Link one production RAG or agent repo (redacted data OK) with eval methodology.

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