10+ years of software engineering experience At least 3 years in applied LLM or agentic AI systems Proven success in deploying LLM-powered products at scale Deep backend & systems engineering expertise with Python, distributed systems, and scalable APIs Familiarity with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar orchestration frameworks Experience with RAG pipelines, vector DBs, embedding models, and semantic search tuning Experience managing performance across cloud providers (e.g., AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic) Demonstrated experience building multi-step agents Comfort with advanced prompting strategies Strong understanding of AI system evaluation Experience designing safety-aware, reliable LLM systems in production Experience owning logging, monitoring, and observability for live AI systems