[Hiring] Freelance Gen AI/LLM Engineer @Projects by IF

Role Description

In this role you will work alongside experienced AI/ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Designers and Product Managers to prototype and bring to MVP the GenAI/LMM components of new city services for residents.

You will be our Gen AI expert in the team, your role will be a mix of hands-on and advisory:

• Designing, developing and testing elements of the GenAI/LLM solution alongside other team members and city teams.
• Providing technical advice and coaching to city teams, some of whom will be creating their own AI prototypes (e.g., code reviews, technical coaching and guidance).
• Scoping: researching appropriate solutions and models, assessing feasibility, and ideating and designing suitable Gen AI/LLM solutions.
• Contributing to workshops, advising on skills development and helping cities identify and address potential risks introduced through the application of GenAI/LLMs.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building LLM based applications (chatbots, agents, document extraction and summarisation, RAG based systems).
• Strong programming skills, ideally in Python plus an LLM orchestration framework such as LangChain.
• Experience with LLM safeguards and guardrails (e.g., managing hallucination risk and human-in-the-loop systems).
• Experience working as part of an engineering team on a shared code base (e.g., using tools like Git, and documenting work that is in development).
• Experience with API integration and data wrangling (e.g., data munging, data pipelines for ETL, data analysis).
• Experience with rapid prototyping and MVP delivery — propensity to build and prototype, focus on progress and learning over perfection.
• Ability to scope solutions based on existing data, skills, context constraints and ability to find pragmatic compromises and workarounds.
• Comfortable working with uncertainty and incomplete information, communicating the assumptions made along the way.
• Ability to work independently, solve problems that arise, use flexibility and comfortably to compromise.
• Collaborative team player, with an ability to work well with other team members from different disciplines and communicate ongoing work, including flagging potential risks in a timely manner.
• Ability to communicate and present technical ideas and concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to coach and support other technical and non-technical people in performing technical activities.
• Ability to perform professional activities in Portuguese.

Nice to have skills and experience

• Broader experience working with data, such as:
• Working with unstructured data (e.g., free text).
• Working with or generating synthetic data.
• Working with data in various languages.
• Working with geospatial data, including satellite data.
• Working with image data (for the purposes of computer vision), including video data.
• Broader experience working with in city and/or local government.
• Broader experience in Responsible AI.
• Broader experience working in complex projects with competing objectives.