AI/LLM Developer/Engineer

🇺🇸 Chapel Hill, NC

🕑 Temporary

💰 $26 - $34 per Hour

💻 Information Technology

🗓️ November 24th, 2025

Langchain LLAMA Python

Edtech.com's Summary

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hiring an AI/LLM Developer/Engineer for the School of Nursing's Center for Virtual Care Value and Excellence (ViVE). This role involves designing, fine-tuning, and deploying large language models tailored for healthcare applications, building intelligent LLM-powered tools, and collaborating across disciplines to improve healthcare delivery through AI technologies.

Highlights

Design, fine-tune, and evaluate large language models (LLMs) using techniques like transfer learning, LoRA, and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF).
Develop applications such as chatbots, virtual agents, clinical decision tools, using frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, and semantic search pipelines.
Build scalable LLM pipelines including data ingestion, preprocessing, model serving via GPU/TPU, and continuous monitoring.
Integrate commercial and open-source LLMs (OpenAI GPT, Claude, Mistral, LLaMA) via APIs or local deployment in digital health systems.
Utilize advanced prompt engineering and chain-of-thought strategies to optimize model outputs.
Implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures using vector databases like Pinecone, FAISS, and Weaviate.
Evaluate LLM performance with automated and human-in-the-loop methods assessing accuracy, safety, and user satisfaction.
Collaborate with data scientists, UX designers, domain experts, and MLOps teams to ensure real-world applicability and system performance.
Monitor system metrics such as latency, throughput, token usage, and cost-effectiveness.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field with expertise in NLP, RAG, deep learning frameworks, Python, and familiarity with clinical healthcare data required; experience with distributed training, multi-modal models, and cloud deployment preferred.
Position offers full-time temporary employment with a pay range of $26.04 - $33.85 per hour for up to 11 months.