Remote AI Engineer Role Opens Up in Telecom Sector
A telecommunications company is hiring a senior applied AI engineer through Toptal — a fully remote role focused on real production work, not research.
If you're an AI engineer who gets restless doing pure research and wants to see your work actually running in production, this one's worth a look. A telecom company staffing through Toptal is searching for a senior applied AI professional to join an existing platform engineering team and help turn AI concepts into dependable, scalable software.
The day-to-day isn't about experimenting for its own sake. You'd be designing and optimizing agentic AI solutions, running evaluations to sharpen prompt performance, and improving how models behave in live environments. That means working closely with platform engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders — a cross-functional setup that suits people who communicate well beyond their own technical lane.
On the skills side, the role calls for solid hands-on experience with machine learning and applied AI, a strong software engineering foundation, and specific expertise in LLM-based and agent-based applications. Prompt engineering and optimization are front and center — not a nice-to-have.
For nomads with a serious ML background, remote contract work through platforms like Toptal can offer good rates and flexible arrangements, though the applied, production-focused nature of this role suggests it'll demand consistent availability rather than a light-touch engagement.
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