AI Engineer

BLEN is hiring an AI Engineer to work on production-grade applications powered by large language models, with a focus on agentic systems and MCP-based integrations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 1 year shipping LLM-based or AI-powered features to production
• Hands-on experience designing or building agentic systems
• Working knowledge of the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• Strong Python and experience building and deploying backend services and APIs
• Hands-on experience with at least one major LLM provider
• Working knowledge of RAG: embeddings, vector databases, and retrieval evaluation
• Comfort with prompt engineering, structured outputs, and tool/function calling
• Experience writing evals for non-deterministic systems
• Solid SQL and experience with relational and unstructured data
• Familiarity with at least one cloud platform
• Git, code review, and modern collaborative workflows
• Strong written and verbal communication

Benefits

• Work from anywhere in the US
• Competitive pay
• Contribution toward health benefits
• High-visibility federal projects with real impact
• Small team where your ideas actually ship
• Generous exposure to the latest AI tooling and models

Originally posted on Himalayas