AI Software Engineer

Join MemeHouse LA, Inc in Beverly Hills to build production-ready AI applications powered by large language models and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

Responsibilities

• Build production-oriented LLM features, retrieval systems, workflow automations, and APIs aligned to defined business needs
• Evaluate and deploy appropriately licensed open-weight models on private, dedicated, or customer-controlled infrastructure
• Integrate approved documents, databases, CRMs, business applications, and other structured or unstructured data sources
• Develop ingestion, indexing, embedding, retrieval, and citation workflows with access controls
• Create repeatable tests for response quality, groundedness, latency, cost, and failure modes; use outcomes to drive improvements
• Implement deployment pipelines, observability, error handling, versioning, rollback procedures, and operational documentation
• Apply least-privilege access, secrets management, tenant separation where applicable, and safeguards against prompt injection and unintended data disclosure
• Participate in code reviews, document architectural decisions, share findings, and help mentor additional engineers as the team expands

Requirements

• Strong Python skills with experience building maintainable software, APIs, automated tests, and data integrations
• Hands-on experience with LLM applications, embeddings, RAG, model evaluation, or fine-tuning when appropriate
• Experience with tools such as PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, vLLM, LangChain, or LlamaIndex
• Comfort with SQL, Git, Linux, Docker, API authentication, and CI/CD workflows
• Experience processing business data and designing reliable ingestion or transformation pipelines
• Ability to reason about data privacy, permissions, model limitations, and secure deployment
• Ability to scope work, communicate blockers early, document decisions, and deliver usable results
• Relevant professional experience, substantial project work, or equivalent evidence of technical proficiency
• A specific degree is not required

Technologies

• Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, vLLM, LangChain, LlamaIndex
• SQL, Git, Linux, Docker, CI/CD
• CUDA, quantization, Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as code, CRM, ERP

Location and Work Model

• Beverly Hills, CA (hybrid)

Benefits

• Employer-sponsored health insurance, subject to plan eligibility and terms
• 401(k) participation, subject to plan eligibility and terms
• Unlimited paid time off under the company’s written policy, plus applicable paid sick leave and other legally protected leave
• $5,000 gross performance-based signing incentive (milestone bonus)

Your First 90 Days

• First 30 days: Understand architecture, security requirements, and priority use case; establish development environment and evaluation approach
• Target by day 45: Deliver a working AI prototype connected to an approved data source, with reproducible setup instructions and initial evaluation results
• Target by day 90: Deliver a production-ready version of the agreed feature in an approved staging or production environment, supported by automated tests, monitoring, and a deployment and rollback runbook

Helpful Additional Experience

• CUDA, quantization, batching, GPU memory management, or inference benchmarking
• Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, private networking, or on-premises deployments
• CRM, ERP, finance, document-management, or analytics platforms
• Permission-aware retrieval testing, adversarial testing, or production AI observability
• Open-source work, technical writing, or mentoring other engineers

Compensation and $5,000 Signing Incentive

• Annual base salary range: $130,000–$180,000
• Signing incentive: $5,000 performance-based, earned through two initial-delivery milestones targeted for the first 90 days
• Milestone one: $2,500 upon completion of agreed prototype, data integration, and initial evaluation deliverables (target: day 45)
• Milestone two: $2,500 upon completion of agreed production-readiness, testing, monitoring, and documentation deliverables (target: day 90)
• Written milestone requirements and objective acceptance criteria will be provided before employment begins
• Each installment is earned when criteria are satisfied and is paid on the next regular payday (or earlier if required by applicable law), less required tax withholdings
• Day 45 and day 90 dates are delivery targets, not minimum-service or automatic-forfeiture dates
• Once earned, an installment is not conditioned on continued employment through its payment date and does not have to be repaid if employment later ends