LLM Engineer

$200,000+ Offers For Graduates ^{$200,000+ Offers For Graduates} 

• Deliver production-ready AI systems weekly against firm deadlines
• Work with cutting-edge AI-first workflows (agents, tool integration, evaluations, retrieval, deployment)
• Compete and collaborate with elite engineering peers in a high-feedback setting
• Present completed work directly to founders, CTOs, and hiring partners
• Convert real project briefs into scoped, dependable, deployable systems

• Spending weeks absorbing theory, completing tutorials, or learning passively without shipping
• Creating demos that are never subjected to real evaluation or usage
• Refining resumes and portfolios rather than constructing and deploying functional systems
• Attending weeks of lectures and coursework before engaging with actual code

Build and deliver production-grade AI systems on a weekly cadence, converting demonstrated engineering performance into career outcomes exceeding $200K through Gauntlet's hiring partner network.

• 3+ years of professional engineering experience (or demonstrable equivalent ability)
• Have independently designed, implemented, and deployed at least one working software system to production or active users
• High responsiveness to feedback and extreme execution intensity
• Authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
• Willing to commit to 80–100 hour weeks and relocate to Austin for 7 weeks