Job Overview:
Pay Range: $52/hr - $57/hr
Requirement/Must Have:
- 10+ years of experience in end-to-end RAG architecture ownership (ingestion → retrieval → generation) & LLM orchestration.
- 8+ years of strong hands-on Python backend/data engineering experience.
- 6+ years of experience with OpenAI APIs (embeddings + chat + tools).
- 6+ years of experience with MongoDB Atlas Vector Search (hands-on), Aurora MySQL + DocumentDB integration.
- 6+ years of experience with API + async pipelines + CI/CD.
Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end architecture for ingestion, indexing, retrieval, and LLM orchestration (RAG).
- Lead implementation in Python (hands-on coding + design reviews + standards).
- Build and optimize data extraction pipelines from AWS Aurora MySQL and AWS DocumentDB.
- Design chunking/metadata strategy and indexing into MongoDB Atlas Vector Search.
- Integrate OpenAI for embeddings + generation.
- Implement MCP patterns for safe retrieval and extensible tooling.
- Establish production readiness: Observability, alerting, incident response runbooks.
- Provide technical leadership: Mentor engineers, set coding standards, conduct design/code reviews.
- Coordinate with product, data, and security stakeholders; manage technical roadmap.
Nice to Have:
- Hybrid retrieval (keyword + vector), reranking, evaluation frameworks.
- Document parsing/OCR, table extraction, knowledge graph/entity resolution.
- AWS deployment experience (ECS/EKS/Lambda), VPC networking, IAM best practices.
Skills:
- Strong experience with OpenAI APIs (embeddings + chat; tool/function calling patterns).
- Hands-on with MongoDB Atlas Vector Search: Index creation/tuning, schema design, metadata filtering.
- Strong integration experience with Aurora MySQL and DocumentDB.
- API/service development: FastAPI preferred; background jobs (Celery/RQ/SQS/Kafka).
- Engineering excellence: Docker, CI/CD, pytest, secure secrets, monitoring, performance tuning.
Qualification And Education:
- Prior experience as Lead/Tech Lead owning architecture and delivery of production systems.
- Proven experience shipping RAG/LLM applications in production.
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