1+ Year hands-on experience with LLM, RAG and AI agent systems in production
RAG & Agentic RAG Engineering: Hands-on experience building production retrieval pipelines end-to-end — embedding models (BGE, OpenAI, etc.), vector stores (Qdrant, Milvus, Pinecone, Weaviate), hybrid search (keyword + vector), reranking models; deep understanding of chunking strategy, text cleaning, and multimodal data parsing; experience implementing Agentic RAG patterns — Self-RAG, Corrective RAG, adaptive retrieval, multi-hop decomposition, retrieve-reflect-refine loops
Agent Harness Engineering — hands-on experience with Agent Harness runtimes (Pi Agent, AgentScope 2.0 or equivalent orchestration frameworks): session recovery, sandbox isolation, middleware/hook systems, multi-tenant runtime, plan/execute loops, and retrieval-grounded tool calling
LLM & Agent Fundamentals: Deep familiarity with LLM and agent mechanisms — LLM APIs, KV Cache, Agent Loop, Tool Use, Reasoning, Planning, Skills, MCP, Memory, Subagent, Multi-Agent; strong grasp of Prompt Engineering, Context Engineering
Independent Research Capability: Can analyze ambiguous problems from first principles, generate original ideas, and drive research from 0 to 1; able to rapidly translate ideas into runnable prototypes with tight experiment iteration loops
Heavy Agent User: Power user of agent products (coding agents, general-purpose agents); agent tools are already integrated into your daily work and life; you have taste and judgment about model behavior
AI-native Engineering: Proficient in vibe coding — ships fast using AI-assisted workflows across unfamiliar languages, frameworks, and domains; strong learning velocity in software development
Nice to Have
Deep hands-on experience with agent products such as Claude Code, OpenClaw, Cowork, Manus, or equivalent — already integrated into your workflow or daily life
RAG evaluation: Experience with RAGAS, TruLens, or custom benchmarking pipelines for retrieval quality, groundedness, and latency profiling
GraphRAG / knowledge graph-augmented retrieval experience
Experience with Pi Agent, AgentScope 2.0 or other Agent Harness: middleware composition, multi-tenant session management, plugin architecture, sandbox backends
Background in model training, RLHF, or model–system co-design
LiteLLM / multi-provider proxy experience
Kubernetes/EKS: pod isolation, resource management, secrets handling
Security engineering: prompt injection defense, sandbox hardening, guardrail design