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We're looking for a Staff Engineer to lead the design and delivery of AI-native systems that solve real product and business problems.
You'll set technical direction for how we apply LLMs and agentic systems at scale , from prototyping to production-grade, evaluated, and observable systems.
LinkedIn Learning Solutions Engineering India is a ground-up, AI-first org building scalable systems and consumer-grade experiences that connect skills, learning, career growth, and internal mobility across LinkedIn Learning and the enterprise Career Hub. Engineers own end-to-end delivery across web, mobile, backend, data, and AI - designing architectures for skills intelligence, skill-gap detection, personalized recommendations, workforce transformation, and internal mobility—while shaping engineering standards, culture, and hiring in a greenfield environment with LinkedIn’s scale. LinkedIn Learning is entering a significant new phase of growth and innovation. What started as a learning platform has evolved into a much broader vision: helping organizations understand, develop, and transform workforce capabilities at scale. Our new Learning Solutions Engineering charter is going to be built ground-up from India exclusively and is building AI-powered experiences that connect skills, learning, career growth, and internal mobility.
The Learning Solutions Engineering team is being built to drive this next chapter. This is a rare opportunity to join a business that already serves millions of professionals globally while helping shape the future of AI-powered workforce transformation.
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We're looking for a Staff Engineer to lead the design and delivery of AI-native systems that solve real product and business problems. You'll set technical direction for how we apply LLMs and agentic systems at scale , from prototyping to production-grade, evaluated, and observable systems. What You'll Do
Design and build agentic workflows that orchestrate multi-step reasoning, tool use, and decision-making across complex tasks
Architect and scale Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines — including chunking, embedding, indexing, and retrieval strategy — for accuracy and latency at production scale
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Own prompt engineering practices: design, iterate, and systematize prompts across use cases, balancing reliability, cost, and latency
Build robust evaluation frameworks (offline and online) to measure model/agent quality, catch regressions, and guide iteration
Partner closely with product, data science, and infra teams to translate ambiguous problems into scoped AI-powered solutions
Drive technical decisions on model selection, fine-tuning vs. prompting trade-offs, and build-vs-buy for AI infrastructure
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers; raise the technical bar for applied AI practices org-wide
Stay current with the fast-moving LLM/agent ecosystem and pragmatically bring relevant advances into the roadmap
BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or related practical experience.
8+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years hands-on building applied AI/LLM-based systems in production
Experience with fine-tuning or custom model training
Familiarity with LLM observability/tracing tools .
Experience in a high-scale consumer or enterprise product environment
Demonstrated experience designing and shipping agentic workflows (multi-step tool-calling, planning, orchestration frameworks like LangGraph, custom agent loops, etc.)
Strong grasp of RAG system design — retrieval quality, embedding strategies, vector DBs, hybrid search
Deep experience with prompt engineering methodologies and prompt/version management at scale
Proven track record building evaluation systems for LLM outputs (automated evals, human-in-the-loop review, regression suites, LLM-as-judge techniques)
Solid fundamentals in distributed systems, APIs, and production-grade software engineering
Excellent communication skills; able to explain AI system trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Suggested Skills:
LLM
Backend Development
Distributed Systems
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