Applied LLM Systems Engineer

Anduril
United States
Full timeUSD 112,000 - 149,000 annuallyFunction: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)Experience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Sound judgment","Systems engineering"]

Design, build, and operate production LLM systems that improve technical documentation creation, transformation, validation, maintenance, and delivery. You’ll develop AI-assisted authoring and automated publishing tooling, including multi-agent orchestration, safe integrations with enterprise content and systems, and robust evaluation. Focus on observability, auditability, rollback, and failure modes while optimizing context, token usage, cost, and latency.

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Applied LLM Systems Engineer

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Job Summary

Design, build, and operate production LLM systems that improve technical documentation creation, transformation, validation, maintenance, and delivery. You’ll develop AI-assisted authoring and automated publishing tooling, including multi-agent orchestration, safe integrations with enterprise content and systems, and robust evaluation. Focus on observability, auditability, rollback, and failure modes while optimizing context, token usage, cost, and latency.
Location: United States
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build production-grade LLM applications for documentation and knowledge-work workflows.
  • •Design orchestration for multi-step workflows that coordinate models, tools, and deterministic services safely.
  • •Optimize context management, token usage, caching, and workflow design for cost, latency, and task success.
  • •Build retrieval, structured-output, and tool-integrated systems that safely interact with enterprise content and documentation systems.
  • •Establish observability, auditability, rollback, and safe failure modes while preserving provenance from sources through validated outputs and human decisions.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 112,000 - 149,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production services.
  • •Delivered at least one production AI system with measurable adoption by intended users.
  • •Experience optimizing cost, latency, and context usage in production LLM or workflow systems.
  • •Experience designing evaluation, observability, rollback, and failure-handling for nondeterministic systems.
  • •Strong proficiency in Python and production software practices, including software architecture, security boundaries, identity and access management, and data protection.
Experience:5+ years
Skills:Sound judgmentSystems engineering
Languages:En
Tech Stack:PythonLLMAPIRetrieval-augmented generationStructured outputTool callingCachingToken managementObservabilityRollbackEvaluation frameworksRegression testingIdentity and access managementData protectionCI/CDQueuesEvent-driven architectures

Eligibility

Security Clearance:Secret

Company Brief

Anduril
Designs and builds advanced defense systems combining autonomous aircraft, sensors, and AI-driven software for military and national security applications, focused on modernizing battlefield capabilities and distributed sensing.
Industry: Defense Technology
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Costa Mesa, United States
Founded: 2017
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