AI Applications Engineer

Hitachi • Santa Clara, CA

268d • $77,732 - $97,165 • Onsite

About The Position

Hitachi's R D Center, located in Santa Clara, CA, serves as a pivotal technology hub to support Hitachi's global Social Innovation business. Our focus spans original and applied research, technology innovation, intellectual property creation, and solving real-world challenges. We collaborate closely with Hitachi's product and business divisions, contributing to Hitachi's IoT and AI business across a variety of industries, with a special focus on optimized manufacturing. We are looking for a AI Applications Development Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will contribute to our Industrial Digital Transformation solution portfolio by developing and testing ML/AI applications. We are not looking for a specialist in a narrow domain but rather someone who understands a typical ML lifecycle and can move to various levels of stack such as serving side, application integration, data processing or experimenting with various components. You'll get a chance to engage in real-world deployments in manufacturing facilities at scale. This position is a perfect match for a motivated programmer who is passionate about empowering society through the tremendous potential of Industrial IoT and AI.

Requirements

• An MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, accompanied by at least 2 years of experience in software development.
• Experience in Machine Learning & Deep Learning libraries/frameworks such as PyTorch, Hugging Face, Numpy, Panda, Scikit-learn etc.
• Experience in one or more LLM Development & AI Orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex.
• Experience in one or more Vector Databases for RAG such as ChromaDB, Pinecone, LanceDB.
• Experience in deploying LLMs using frameworks such as vLLM, Ollama, or ONNX for optimized inference.
• Experience with Docker and container management tools like Kubernetes.
• Strong skills in Linux and shell scripting.
• Experience with version control and CI/CD pipelines such as Git.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in big data and distributed computing such as Apache Spark (PySpark), Dask.
• Experience in cloud platforms and cloud-native services, particularly in AWS or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the ongoing software development and testing of resilient and efficient AI/ML applications.
• Collaborate within a cross-disciplinary team that includes software, network, sensing, and domain experts, building upon existing designs and architectures to add unique features and differentiators.

Benefits

• Employees are eligible to participate in Hitachi America's variable pay program, subject to the program's conditions and restrictions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
• Education Level: Master's degree