Job Description

About You

You are a software engineer with strong exposure to AI-driven solutions, passionate about building intelligent features that deliver real business impact.

You are hands-on, product-oriented, and comfortable experimenting with new technologies. You enjoy translating business needs into scalable AI solutions and continuously improving outcomes through iteration and evaluation.

You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies

• 5+ years of experience in software development, with strong exposure to AI-driven solutions.
• Hands-on experience working with LLM platforms such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, or AWS Bedrock.
• Solid knowledge of prompt engineering techniques, including structured prompting, few-shot learning, and chain-of-thought approaches.
• Experience integrating AI models through APIs and orchestrating interactions between multiple AI services.
• Understanding of machine learning concepts such as classification, recommendation systems, and embeddings.
• Experience handling and preprocessing data (e.g., JSON and lightweight datasets).
• Familiarity with frameworks and tools such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, and vector databases like Pinecone or Weaviate.
• Product-oriented mindset with a strong focus on experimentation and business impact.
• Ability to translate business needs into scalable AI-driven solutions.
• Strong analytical thinking with the ability to balance innovation and technical feasibility.
• Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). (Nice to have)
• Knowledge of model evaluation techniques (e.g., quality scoring, benchmarking). (Nice to have)
• Basic experience with fine-tuning techniques or adapters. (Nice to have)
• Experience building AI-powered features for digital products. (Nice to have)

You Will Be Accountable for the Following Responsibilities:

• Design and implement AI-powered features such as recommendations, content generation, and AI assistants.
• Build rapid prototypes to validate user and business hypotheses.
• Integrate AI capabilities into product workflows, ensuring practical and scalable applications.
• Design and optimize prompts, interaction patterns, and pipelines for AI model usage.
• Continuously evaluate and improve output quality through prompt tuning and experimentation.
• Develop intelligent solutions such as recommendation systems, copilots, and automated workflows.
• Collaborate with Cloud Developers to ensure scalable and efficient AI integrations.
• Assess risks, costs, and scalability of AI implementations.
• Stay up to date with emerging AI trends and technologies to continuously improve solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience working with LLMs and AI integrations.
• Strong experience with APIs, backend systems, and data handling.
• Understanding of prompt engineering and AI workflows.
• Product-oriented mindset with focus on experimentation.
• Advanced English proficiency.

Additional Information

About Us

We Are Engineered Different.

At Applaudo, talented people design, build, and scale meaningful, AI-powered solutions that create real business impact. As an AI-native organization, we collaborate across design, development, cloud, data, and artificial intelligence to turn ideas into scalable products that transform how companies operate, make decisions, and grow.

We are building a high-performance culture grounded in five values: Empowering Excellence, Collaborative Teamwork, Unsolicited Respect, Consistent Transparency, and Efficient Communication These define how we work, how we support one another, and how we hold ourselves accountable.

Applaudo is a place for people who want to learn fast, take ownership, and work alongside strong teams they are proud to belong to. Joining us means being part of an organization that is evolving intentionally, investing in modern ways of working, and leading AI-native transformation at scale.