projectsbyif - Freelance Gen AI/LLM Engineer (Portuguese Speaking)

• Weekly hours: 4 days min • Location: Remote, GMT/BST or CET friendly • In this role you will work alongside experienced AI/ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Designers and Product Managers to prototype and bring to MVP the GenAI/LMM components of new city services for residents. • Hands-on experience building LLM based applications (chatbots, agents, document extraction and summarisation, RAG based systems). • Strong programming skills, ideally in Python plus an LLM orchestration framework such as LangChain. • Experience with LLM safeguards and guardrails — e.g. managing hallucination risk and human-in-the-loop systems. • Experience working as part of an engineering team on a shared code base, ie using tools like Git, and documenting work that is in development. • Experience with API integration and data wrangling: ie data munging, data pipelines for ETL, data analysis • Experience with rapid prototyping and MVP delivery — propensity to build and prototype, focus on progress and learning over perfection • Ability to scope solutions based on existing data, skills, context constrains and ability to find pragmatic compromises and workarounds • Comfortable working with uncertainty and incomplete information, communicating the assumptions made along the way • Ability to work independently, solve problems that arise, use flexibility and comfortably to compromise • Collaborative team player, with an ability to work well with other team members from different disciplines and communicate ongoing work, including flagging potential risks in a timely manner • Ability to communicate and present technical ideas and concepts to non-technical stakeholders • Ability to coach and support other technical and non-technical people in performing technical activities • Ability to perform professional activities in Portuguese • Broader experience working with data, such as • Working with unstructured data, ie free text • Working with or generating synthetic data • Working with data in various languages • Working with geospatial data, including satellite data • Working with image data (for the purposes of computer vision), including video data • Broader experience working with in city and/or local government • Broader experience working in complex projects with competing objectives