Applied LLM Systems EngineerPosted today$149K

Costa Mesa, California, United StatesManufacturing

The opportunity

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U. S.

What you'll do

  • Build production-grade LLM applications for documentation and knowledge-work workflows.

  • Design orchestration for multi-step workflows that coordinate models, tools,: and deterministic services safely.

  • Optimize context management, token usage, caching, and workflow design for cost, latency, and task success.

  • Build retrieval, structured-output, and tool-integrated systems that safely: interact with enterprise content, source control, issue tracking, and documentation systems.

  • Design evaluation frameworks and regression testing for prompts, models,: tools, retrieval pipelines, and end-to-end workflows.

  • Establish observability, auditability, rollback, and safe failure modes for AI-assisted workflows.

What they're looking for

  • Experience designing multi-step orchestration or coordination systems across: models, tools, and deterministic services.
  • Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, structured outputs, tool: calling, or other production LLM workflow patterns.
  • Experience integrating AI capabilities into desktop or enterprise applications with limited native APIs.
  • Experience in defense, aerospace, manufacturing, robotics, autonomy,: aviation, or another regulated environment.
  • Familiarity with technical documentation, structured authoring, content: management, or comparable documentation-heavy workflows.
  • Familiarity with S1000D, DITA, MIL-STD-40051, or comparable documentation frameworks.
  • Experience with containerized services, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, queues,: event-driven architectures, or production monitoring.