Senior AI Engineer

Design and deploy applied AI systems that connect LLMs, backend services, and cloud platforms to real business use cases in a hybrid Chicago setup.

Responsibilities

• 40% Agentic system development
• 30% LLM integration
• 20% Workflow automation and internal tools
• 70% Hands-on building and implementation
• 10% Management duties
• 20% Team collaboration

Requirements

• Strong software engineering background with experience building scalable backend systems
• Ability to reason through business problems end-to-end and deliver solutions that users adopt
• Experience identifying high-value AI opportunities and determining where AI will have the biggest impact
• Demonstrated ability to stay current on latest models, architecture, frameworks, and techniques and guide the team on which approaches to adopt
• Strong understanding of how to choose the appropriate AI approach for a given problem (without defaulting to familiar tools)
• Experience collaborating with product and business stakeholders to translate customer needs into effective AI solutions

Technologies

• LLMs
• LangChain
• LangGraph

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience building agentic systems or workflows that take actions across multiple services
• Familiarity with modern AI tooling such as LangChain, LangGraph, or similar

Benefits

• Bonus eligible
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Vacation Time
• 401k
• Regular Hybrid Schedule with additional WFH allotments

Location: Chicago, IL (hybrid)