LLM engineer with 8 years of backend and ML experience, now focused on fine-tuning and serving open-weight language models. Moved a healthcare summarization workload from a hosted API to a fine-tuned 8B model, cutting cost by 80% at equal quality. Brings vLLM serving, LoRA fine-tuning and safety evaluation for regulated data.
Experience
Senior LLM Engineer, Cedarline Clinical AI (Nashville, TN)
Jun 2023 – Present
Fine-tuned a Llama 8B model with LoRA on 60,000 de-identified clinical notes, matching hosted API quality at 80% lower cost
Deployed vLLM on HIPAA-compliant GPU infrastructure serving 400,000 summaries a month at p95 under 3 seconds
Built hallucination and omission checks against source notes, reviewed with 8 physician annotators
Designed agentic prior-authorization workflows with tool calls, cutting staff preparation time 45%
Machine Learning Engineer, Medlink Records (Nashville, TN)
Aug 2020 – May 2023
Built ICD-10 code suggestion models with BERT, raising coder throughput by 22%
Created a de-identification pipeline for PHI that passed external expert determination
Backend Engineer, Volunteer State Software (Knoxville, TN)
Jun 2018 – Jul 2020
Developed Python and Go services for a scheduling product with 1,500 clinics
Education
B.E. Computer Science, Vanderbilt University (Aug 2014 – May 2018)
Skills
LLMs: Llama, Mistral, Qwen, LoRA/QLoRA, DPO
Serving: vLLM, TGI, Ray Serve, quantization (AWQ, GPTQ)
Evaluation and Safety: Faithfulness scoring, red teaming, guardrails, human annotation
How to write a LLM Engineer resume
A strong LLM Engineer resume shows the systems you built, the scale they run at, and the measurable effect on speed, reliability or cost. Put your most relevant recent role first and make every bullet show a result, not a duty.
Sections, in order
Summary
Experience
Projects
Skills
Education
Length: One page for most candidates; move to two only if every line is relevant.
Summary: Write two or three lines: your role, your strongest skills, and one result that proves them.
Skills to feature
Programming languages
System design
Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
CI/CD
Testing and code review
Databases and SQL
Observability
Security fundamentals
APIs and integrations
Technical documentation
Example bullet points
Rebuilt the checkout service in Go, cutting p95 latency from 900 ms to 180 ms for 2M monthly users
Introduced contract tests and staged rollouts, reducing production incidents by 45% in two quarters
Migrated 30 services to Kubernetes with Terraform, lowering cloud spend by $250k a year
Tips from recruiters
Group skills by category (for example "Languages: Go, TypeScript") so recruiters and ATS parsers find them quickly.
Link to a repository, demo or write-up for at least one project you can talk about in depth.
Name the stack inside each bullet; keyword matching happens at the bullet level, not only in the skills list.
Recommended templates
Classic (ATS-friendly): Jake's-style LaTeX classic: small caps and hairline rules
Tech (ATS-friendly): Developer style: mono headings and tags, sans body
Modern (ATS-friendly): Clean single column with accent headings and rules
LLM Engineer resume FAQ
What should a LLM Engineer resume include?
A LLM Engineer resume should show the systems you built, the scale they run at, and the measurable effect on speed, reliability or cost. Use these sections in this order: Summary, Experience, Projects, Skills and Education. Put your most relevant recent role first and make every bullet show a result, not a duty.
What is the best resume template for a LLM Engineer?
Classic, Tech and Modern work well for LLM Engineer roles. They are single-column with standard headings, so applicant tracking systems (ATS) parse them reliably.
How long should a LLM Engineer resume be?
One page for most candidates; move to two only if every line is relevant.
Which skills should a LLM Engineer put on a resume?
Prioritize the skills named in the job posting. Common ones for LLM Engineer roles are Programming languages, System design, Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), CI/CD, Testing and code review and Databases and SQL.
How do I write strong LLM Engineer resume bullet points?
Start with an action verb, say what you did, and end with a measurable result such as latency, uptime and deploy frequency. For example: "Rebuilt the checkout service in Go, cutting p95 latency from 900 ms to 180 ms for 2M monthly users."