AI Engineer – Large Language & Vision Models

About the role

Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is seeking a highly skilled AI Engineer to join its Robotics Research Center. The role focuses on developing, fine‑tuning, and deploying large language and vision‑language models for autonomous intelligent agents.

Key responsibilities

• Design, train, fine‑tune, and optimize LLMs and VLMs for real‑world applications.
• Develop autonomous agent frameworks capable of multi‑step reasoning, planning, and tool use.
• Build scalable, low‑latency inference systems using DeepSpeed, vLLM, TensorRT, or ONNX Runtime.
• Implement distributed training, model parallelism, and efficient inference pipelines for edge devices, GPUs, and cloud platforms.
• Stay current with advancements in multimodal models and autonomous agents.

Required profile

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, Robotics, or related field.
• Proven hands‑on experience with LLMs, VLMs, or agentic frameworks.
• Track record of productionizing AI systems at scale.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Required skills

• Python, C++
• PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers
• DeepSpeed, vLLM, ONNX Runtime
• Docker, CUDA, GPU optimization
• Cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure
• Vector databases: Weaviate, Pinecone, FAISS, Milvus
• Message brokers: Redis, Kafka
• Experiment tracking: Weights & Biases, MLflow, TensorBoard