# Applied AI
**Company:** [Artisan](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/artisan)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** LLMs, RAG, LangChain, React, Openai Tools, Prompt Engineering, Function Calling, Agent Workflows, Web Search, Crms, APIs
**Posted:** 2025-07-22
> Builds autonomous AI agents for workflows like email generation, prospect research, and meeting scheduling. Requires 2+ years shipping AI products with expertise in LLMs, RAG, agents, and production optimization.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Evaluating LLMs, choosing models balancing cost, latency, reliability, and accuracy.
- Architecting prompt frameworks and agent behaviors for core workflows: email generation, chat interaction, meeting scheduling, prospect research.
- Optimizing multi-step agent chains using RAG, web search integrations, tool use (CRMs, calendars, APIs).
- Driving infrastructure for routing, orchestration, eval loops, persistent memory across agents.
- Building safety, trust, controls, partnering with product on guardrails, fail-safes, success metrics.
- Exploring emerging modalities: voice AI, talking head technology, multi-modal reasoning.
- Designing agent workflows for strategic decisions, self-optimization, real-time adaptation, autonomous outcomes.

## Requirements
- 2+ years shipping real AI products in production (app-layer AI startup or foundation model team).
- Deep hands-on experience with agents, function calling, RAG pipelines, self-healing workflows (LangChain, ReAct, Dust, OpenAI Tools, etc.).
- Strong background in prompt design, chaining, retrieval systems (OpenAI RAG + web search tools a plus).
- Experience owning latency, reliability, cost of LLM-powered systems in production.
- Ability to think like a researcher but ship like an engineer.
- Excellent communication skills.
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