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Pre-Vetted Talent Profile

Hire Specialist LLM Engineers

Onboarding SLA: 48 Hours • Rate Band: $100 - $160 / hr

Hire pre-vetted LLM engineers specializing in foundation model fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA), prompt template optimization, vLLM engine serving, and automated red-teaming. Esaholic provides dedicated LLM talent with 48-hour onboarding and transparent rate bands from $100 to $160 per hour.

Role Responsibilities

What a Specialist LLM Engineer Delivers

Model Fine-Tuning & Quantization

Executing LoRA adapter training on Llama 3 / Qwen 2.5 models and applying AWQ 4-bit quantization for low-latency GPU serving.

Inference Engine Optimization

Configuring vLLM engine instance clusters, tuning PagedAttention KV caches, and setting up automated LLM-as-a-judge evaluation benchmarks.

Technical Vetting

Skills That Matter vs Generic Job Ads

Skill CategoryGeneric Job Ad BuzzwordsWhat We Actually Vet (Esaholic Standard)
Fine-Tuning”Experience with AI training”PEFT/LoRA hyperparameters, synthetic Q&A generation, & loss convergence
LLM Serving”API integration skills”vLLM, TGI, Triton inference server configuration & streaming SLAs
Commercial Terms

Rate Bands & Placement Terms

Senior LLM Engineer$100 - $135 / hr

Dedicated full-time placement for fine-tuning, prompt optimization, and vLLM deployment.

Principal LLM Architect$140 - $160 / hr

Multi-GPU distributed training across H100 clusters and enterprise security red-teaming.

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Buyer FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What tasks can a dedicated LLM engineer handle for our product?↓

LLM engineers fine-tune open-weights models (Llama 3, Qwen 2.5), build evaluation suites, optimize vLLM inference streaming, and implement prompt injection defenses.

What rate band applies to specialist LLM engineers?↓

Specialist LLM engineers range from $100 to $160 per hour based on domain expertise in distributed GPU training and model quantization.