Artificial Intelligence Engineer (Chicago)

• 9+ years of experience in Software Engineering with a focus on AI/Machine Learning; prior

contract or consulting engagements a plus.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.

• Strong software engineering foundations, including experience building scalable systems and

writing clean, maintainable code.

• Experience building production applications that leverage foundation models (e.g., OpenAI,

Anthropic, AWS Bedrock) for language and vision tasks, including RAG, prompt engineering,

agentic workflows, and evaluation.

• Experience fine-tuning or training ML models a plus.

• Extensive experience programming in Python, leveraging frameworks such as PyTorch and

HuggingFace, and deploying models using cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Hands-on experience standing up AI/ML systems from scratch — e.g., search and retrieval

pipelines, model deployment, and evaluation tooling — including setting up tooling and

infrastructure in a greenfield environment.

• Ability to translate business requirements into technical designs and to clearly explain technical

concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and deliver against defined

milestones with limited day-to-day oversight.

• Experience documenting technical designs and gathering user feedback to iterate on delivered

products.

• Portfolio, code samples, or references from prior engagements are welcome.