AI Engineer

1 day ago

makati, metro manila, Philippines OrciMed Life Sciences Philippines OPC Full-time

100% Remote | Graveyard Shift
Philippines-Based Candidates Only
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the Philippines

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced AI Engineer / Programmer to design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI applications that solve real business challenges.

This role is ideal for a software engineer who has hands‑on experience building LLM-powered applications, AI assistants, RAG solutions, workflow automations, and agentic systems . You will work closely with business stakeholders, product teams, and developers to transform business requirements into scalable AI-driven solutions.

If you're passionate about Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI Agents, and modern cloud technologies, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

AI Application Development

  • Design, develop, test, and maintain AI-powered applications, assistants, chatbots, and workflow automations.

  • Build solutions leveraging LLM APIs, prompt engineering, structured outputs, tool calling, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

  • Develop scalable backend services, APIs, and integrations to support AI solutions.

  • Optimize AI application performance, reliability, accuracy, and cost efficiency.

Document Intelligence & Knowledge Systems

  • Build document ingestion and retrieval pipelines.

  • Implement document parsing, chunking, embeddings generation, indexing, and metadata management.

  • Develop enterprise knowledge retrieval solutions utilizing vector databases and semantic search technologies.

  • Ensure data quality, retrieval accuracy, and contextual relevance.

AI Agents & Workflow Automation

  • Design and implement multi‑step agentic workflows.

  • Build AI agents with clear permissions, approval checkpoints, and error‑handling mechanisms.

  • Develop and integrate external tools, APIs, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.

  • Implement intelligent workflow automations that improve business operations and productivity.

Cloud & Enterprise Integration

  • Integrate AI applications with enterprise systems, databases, APIs, business applications, and document repositories.

  • Deploy and manage AI solutions on cloud platforms and containerized environments.

  • Support cloud‑hosted and on‑premises AI deployments.

Governance, Security & Monitoring

  • Implement authentication, authorization, secrets management, logging, and data access controls.

  • Address AI risks, including prompt injection, hallucinations, unsupported responses, and unintended data exposure.

  • Establish prompt versioning, change management, and governance practices.

  • Monitor model performance, latency, costs, usage patterns, and accuracy.

Stakeholder Collaboration

  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to define use cases, requirements, acceptance criteria, and success metrics.

  • Translate business needs into maintainable and scalable technical solutions.

  • Communicate technical concepts and trade‑offs to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

Required Qualifications

  • Minimum 3 years of professional software development experience , including hands‑on experience building AI or LLM‑based applications.

  • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL .

  • Experience developing APIs, backend services, integrations, and enterprise applications.

  • Experience working with commercial and open‑source LLMs.

AI & Machine Learning Expertise

  • Hands‑on experience with:

    • OpenAI

    • Azure OpenAI

    • Anthropic Claude

    • Hugging Face

    • Ollama

    • Transformers

    • Tokenizers

    • Datasets

  • Experience building:

    • RAG applications

    • AI assistants

    • Semantic search solutions

    • Knowledge retrieval systems

    • Conversational AI platforms

Vector Databases & Retrieval

  • Experience with:

    • Pinecone

    • FAISS

    • ChromaDB

    • Weaviate

    • Equivalent vector database technologies

  • Strong understanding of:

    • Embeddings

    • Retriev