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Motion Recruitment

Machine Learning Hardware Engineer

Motion Recruitment, Mountain View, California, us, 94039

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Overview

Find out more about the daily tasks, overall responsibilities, and required experience for this opportunity by scrolling down now. Fantastic opportunity with a growing EV auto manufacturer for a Staff LLM–RAG Engineer (Contract) to lead the development and optimization of enterprise-grade retrieval-augmented generation systems. This is a 100% remote contract opportunity.

Location: Remote (Central Time). Duration: 12+ months to start.

Responsibilities

Lead RAG Architecture Design – Define and implement best practices for retrieval-augmented generation systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and low-latency performance.

Full-Stack AI Development – Build and optimize multi-stage pipelines using LLM orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or custom).

Programming & Integration – Develop services and APIs in Python and Golang to support AI workflows, document ingestion, and retrieval processes.

Search & Retrieval Optimization – Implement hybrid search, vector embeddings, and semantic ranking strategies to improve contextual accuracy.

Prompt Engineering – Design and iterate on few-shot, chain-of-thought, and tool-augmented prompts for domain-specific applications.

Mentorship & Collaboration – Partner with cross-functional teams and guide engineers on RAG and LLM best practices.

Performance Monitoring – Establish KPIs and evaluation metrics for RAG pipeline quality and model performance.

Ideal Background

8+ years in software engineering or applied AI/ML, with at least 2+ years focused on LLMs and retrieval systems.

Strong proficiency in Python and Golang or Rust, with experience building high-performance services and APIs.

Expertise in RAG frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex) and embedding models.

Hands-on experience with vector databases (Databricks Vector Store, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Chroma).

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Information Services

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