Applaudo Studios
Senior AI Engineer (LLMs & Agentic AI)
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
Colombia only
Employer listed it 5 weeks ago · Added today
Been open since 5 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Colombia only
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $170k–$225k a year, a typical range taken from 597 senior-level software roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in Colombia. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia, Bogotá, Bogota, co, Remote"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Residency required in Colombia
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
About You
You are a Senior AI Engineer passionate about building production-grade LLM applications and agentic AI systems. You thrive in collaborative environments where you design, implement, and optimize AI capabilities that power conversational experiences and intelligent workflows.
You enjoy solving complex AI challenges, integrating cutting-edge LLM technologies, and continuously improving production systems through experimentation, evaluation, and engineering best practices. You're comfortable making production design decisions autonomously within a small, lightly-managed team, and defending those decisions directly to engineering leadership.
 
You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related field is desired, or equivalent professional experience.
Strong proficiency in Python and software engineering best practices.
Strong SQL skills working with cloud data warehouses.
Hands-on experience building production-grade LLM and agentic AI applications.
Experience implementing tool calling, MCP servers, context management, and multi-step orchestration.
Experience integrating hosted LLM APIs such as Anthropic and OpenAI into production environments.
Experience with prompt engineering, prompt versioning, fallback strategies, and cost/latency optimization.
Experience designing intent classification and routing solutions for natural language applications.
Experience building conversational AI solutions or multi-API orchestration workflows.
Experience developing LLM evaluation methodologies, and demonstrated ability to reverse-engineer and work within a partially documented, brownfield codebase.
Strong collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Demonstrated ability to explain your own technical work in first-person depth under sustained technical questioning, clearly distinguishing what you personally built, what you contributed to, and what you only observed.
Professional English proficiency, with the fluency to sustain a full technical interview or deep-dive discussion without loss of precision.
Nice to Have:
Experience deploying, fine-tuning, and evaluating open-source models using Hugging Face.
Experience with GPU acceleration and inference optimization.
Experience implementing MLOps practices, including CI/CD, observability, and reproducible pipelines.
Experience with vector databases and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
Applied NLP experience.
Requirements
- ·You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies:
- ·Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related field is desired, or equivalent professional experience.
- ·Strong proficiency in Python and software engineering best practices.
- ·Strong SQL skills working with cloud data warehouses.
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Applaudo Studios, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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