Stanford's Enterprise Technology team needs to design, implement, and support AI solutions across university use cases to improve workflow, efficiency, and decision-making by incorporating new capabilities like LLMs, RAG, and agentic frameworks.
Requirements
- Agent/Agentic Framework Experience: Built and shipped at least one production LLM agent or agentic workflow using frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI/AutoGen, Google Agent Builder/Vertex AI Agents (or equivalent). Able to explain tool selection, orchestration logic, and post‑deployment support.
- Proven Delivery: Implemented 3+ AI/ML projects and 2+ GenAI/LLM projects in production, with operational support (monitoring, tuning, incident response). Projects should serve sizable user populations and demonstrate measurable efficiency gains.
- Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts (LLMs/transformers and classical ML) and experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying AI-driven applications.
- Programming Expertise: Python (primary) plus experience with Node.js/Next.js/React/TypeScript and Java; demonstrated ability to quickly learn new tools/frameworks.
- Experience with cloud AI stacks (e.g., Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI) and vector/search technologies (Pinecone, Elastic/OpenSearch, FAISS, Milvus, etc.).
- Knowledge of data design/architecture, relational and NoSQL databases, and data modeling.
- Thorough understanding of SDLC, MLOps, and quality control practices.
Responsibilities
- AI/ML System Implementation & Integration: Translate requirements into well-engineered components (pipelines, vector stores, prompt/agent logic, evaluation hooks) and implement them in partnership with the platform/architecture team.
- Application & Agent Development: Build and maintain LLM-based agents/services that securely call enterprise tools (ServiceNow, Salesforce, Oracle, etc.) using approved APIs and tool-calling frameworks. Create lightweight internal SDKs/utilities where needed.
- RAG & Search Enablement: Configure and optimize RAG workflows (chunking, embeddings, metadata filters) and integrate with existing search/vector infrastructure—escalating architecture changes to designated architects.
- MLOps & SDLC Practices: Follow and improve team standards for CI/CD, testing, prompt/model versioning, and observability. Own feature delivery through dev/test/prod, coordinating with release managers.
- Governance, Security & Compliance: Apply established guardrails (PII redaction, policy checks, access controls). Partner with InfoSec and architects to close gaps; document decisions and risks.
- Metrics & Reporting: Instrument services with KPIs (latency, cost, accuracy/quality) and build lightweight dashboards.
- Documentation & Communication: Write clear technical docs (APIs, workflows, runbooks), user stories, and acceptance criteria. Support and sometimes lead UAT/test activities.
Other
- Bachelor's degree and eight years of relevant experience or a combination of education and relevant experience.
- Ability to define/solve logical problems for highly technical applications; strong problem-solving and systematic troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent communication, listening, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills; ability to bridge functional and technical resources.
- May work extended hours, evenings, and weekends.
- Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.
