Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Python, LLMs, RAG)

Location: Remote — Turkey, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Poland, or Romania

Company

hirify.global is a boutique consultancy specializing in IT professional services and engineering talent solutions.

What you will do

• Work with business, product, and engineering stakeholders to translate complex requirements into production-ready AI solutions.
• Design and build applications using LLMs, RAG, AI agents, tool/function calling, and structured outputs.
• Develop agentic workflows and retrieval architectures using LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, vector search, embeddings, document pipelines, and contextual retrieval.
• Build Python backend services and user-facing applications with React, Next.js, or similar technologies.
• Integrate applications with enterprise APIs, internal platforms, data systems, and authentication/IAM environments.
• Deploy, monitor, secure, and continuously improve applications using cloud platforms, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including strong production-level Python expertise.
• Hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications in production.
• Strong experience with LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or comparable AI orchestration frameworks.
• Strong understanding of RAG, vector retrieval, embeddings, and LLM integration patterns.
• Experience designing AI agents, agentic workflows, tool/function calling, structured outputs, and automation systems.
• Experience with React, Next.js, or similar modern web technologies.
• Experience deploying production applications with cloud platforms, Docker, and CI/CD.
• Strong understanding of enterprise integrations, secure API design, IAM, and AI/LLM-specific security considerations.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical architecture and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Fluent English and strong stakeholder communication skills are required.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote, full-time contractor engagement.
• Long-term contract with a duration of 6+ months and possible extension based on performance.
• Start date: ASAP.