University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
AI/LLM Developer/Engineer
🇺🇸 Chapel Hill, NC
🕑 Temporary
💰 $26 - $34 per Hour
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ July 28th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Design, fine-tune, and evaluate domain-specific large language models (LLMs) using transfer learning, LoRA, and RLHF.
- Develop intelligent applications such as chatbots, virtual agents, clinical decision tools, and document analyzers using LangChain, LlamaIndex, or semantic search.
- Build scalable LLM infrastructure for data ingestion, preprocessing, model serving on GPU/TPU, and continuous monitoring.
- Integrate commercial and open-source LLMs (e.g., OpenAI GPT, Claude, Mistral, LLaMA) into digital health or enterprise systems via APIs or local deployment.
- Apply advanced prompt engineering and chain-of-thought methods to enhance output accuracy, tone, and relevance.
- Implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures using vector databases like Pinecone, FAISS, or Weaviate.
- Evaluate LLMs using automated and human-in-the-loop approaches focusing on accuracy, safety, hallucination, and user satisfaction.
- Collaborate with data scientists, UX designers, domain experts, and MLOps to ensure effective and responsible AI deployment.
- Monitor and optimize system performance metrics including latency, throughput, token usage, and cost-effectiveness.
- Required qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field with relevant experience, proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain), and familiarity with clinical healthcare data.
- Preferred skills include distributed parallel training, multi-modal foundation models, hands-on LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, RAG experience, and cloud deployment of ML models.
- Compensation ranges from $26.04 to $33.85 per hour for this full-time temporary position lasting up to 11 months.
Similar Jobs
Engineering Manager - Content Management Team
Coursera
🇨🇦 Remote - CA
Applications Specialist
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
🇺🇸 Hybrid - NC
Staff Software Engineer - Craft Education
Western Governors University
🇺🇸 Remote - US
Staff Cloud Engineer, Craft Education
Western Governors University
🇺🇸 Remote - US
Principal Cloud Architect - Craft Education
Western Governors University
🇺🇸 Remote - US
