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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.