Principal Applied AI Engineer

Trident Consulting is looking for a " Distinguished LLM Engineer - Chennai / Tirunelveli / Coimbatore" .

Role : Distinguished LLM Engineer

Location : Chennai / Tirunelveli / Coimbatore

Type : Fulltime

Salary : Depends on your experience and the current market rate

Do you want to use your AI expertise to drive real-world impact? We’re hiring a Distinguished LLM Engineer to lead some of our most strategic and ambitious AI initiatives. In this highly technical, high-impact role, you’ll architect, build, and scale advanced multi-modal LLM and agentic systems that power innovative applications like storytelling, support automation, donor activation, fraud detection, and more.

This is an opportunity to shape the future of human-AI collaboration by designing scalable infrastructure, context-aware systems, and intelligent agents grounded in responsibility, transparency, and performance .

What You’ll Do

LLM System Design

• Own the entire model lifecycle : training, fine-tuning, distillation, quantization, inference, and live serving.
• Ensure models behave safely and transparently, using techniques like RLHF, guardrails, and sandboxing.

Model Diversity

Context Engineering

Agentic Frameworks

LLM-Powered Experience Design

Full-Stack AI Engineering

Reusable AI Assets

AI IP Development

What You Bring

Bonus Qualifications

About Trident : Trident Consulting is an award-winning IT / engineering staffing company founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Ramon, CA. We specialize in placing high-quality vetted technology and engineering professionals in contract and full-time roles. Trident's commitment is to deliver the best and brightest individuals in the industry for our clients' toughest requirements.