Artificial Intelligence Engineer / Architect (Mundelein)

Job DescriptionAI Engineer / Architect\n

Senior | Agentic AI & Applied ML

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US-based - CA preferred, open to West Coast + remote. Hybrid-friendly.

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ABOUT PREDII\n

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Predii builds the intelligence layer that runs the automotive service and parts industry. Our platform, Predii 360, turns messy repair-order, DMS, and parts data into real-time intelligence - powering parts lookup, diagnostics, and repair search for dealership and aftermarket customers at scale, processing billions of repair orders and serving live search at sub-second latency.

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We're small, fast, and allergic to red tape. No 12-layer approval chains, no work that disappears into a backlog forever. If you build something here, it ships - and real customers use it. Learn more at

PREDII RESEARCH\n

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We do real research, not just integration. We continue to submit state-of-the-art research on topics including: engineering-diagram and technical-document understanding, domain-calibrated evaluation frameworks for technical content, multi-agent architectures that optimize for correctness and honesty, detecting confident-but-wrong failures that standard monitoring misses, moving from reactive detection to causal, explainable prognosis, and multilingual evaluation of technical and repair content. We've found that multi-agent systems that just concatenate outputs get less trustworthy as they get more capable, so we design ours to contest and qualify each other's findings instead. And we run open-weight models in production at enterprise scale, because repair-grade accuracy shouldn't cost frontier-model money. All of it is deliberately vertical: deep automotive domain expertise applied to automotive problems, not a general-purpose model with an automotive skin.

THE VIBE\n

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We need an AI Engineer/Architect who wants more than a model to fine-tune - someone ready to own agentic AI products end-to-end and shape the platform they run on. This is real ownership, not busywork. You'll touch:

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• Agentic products across dealership operations - technician diagnostics, service advisor recommendations, pricing/inventory intelligence
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• A shared architecture that supports multiple agentic products, not one-off builds per use case
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• Inference performance and cost - latency and cost-per-token as design inputs, not afterthought metrics
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• Evaluation frameworks tuned to what correct means for each application
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• Safety guardrails and escalation paths for decisions with real diagnostic and financial impact
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• Integration reality across varying DMS/shop management systems
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Expect to shape architecture and set technical direction, not just execute someone else's roadmap.

WHAT YOU'LL ACTUALLY DO\n

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• Own Agentic Products End-to-End - from concept to production, across technician diagnostics, service advisor recommendations, and pricing/inventory intelligence.
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• Build the AI Layer on Shop/Dealer Systems - agentic applications that reason over past repair orders, monitor DMS activity in real time, and act on unstructured pricing/sourcing data.
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• Design a Shared Platform - one architecture that supports multiple agentic products, not a pile of bespoke builds per use case.
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• Build Evaluation Frameworks - tailored to each application (diagnostic accuracy, recommendation relevance, pricing correctness), both offline and in production.
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• Architect Inference for Scale - high-throughput, low-latency serving on open-weight models; own cost-per-token and latency-per-request as design inputs, not just dashboards to watch.
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• Define Safety & Escalation - guardrails and human-in-the-loop paths for high-stakes recommendations with diagnostic or financial impact.
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• Work the Real Integration Surface - varying DMS/shop management system integrations as a core design constraint, not an afterthought.
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YOUR TOOLKIT\n

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• Models & Serving: Open-weight LLMs (Llama, Mistral, Qwen, or similar), vLLM/TGI/TensorRT-LLM, GPU inference optimization
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• Agentic Frameworks: LangGraph, LangChain, custom agent/orchestration stacks, tool-use & function calling
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• Evaluation & Observability: Offline eval harnesses, production monitoring (accuracy, relevance, drift), LLM-as-judge, tracing (LangSmith or similar)
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• Data & Retrieval: RAG pipelines, vector databases, structured + unstructured data reasoning over repair orders and DMS records
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• Languages & Systems: Python, distributed systems fundamentals, API design for real-time DMS integrations
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• Cloud & Infra: Azure/GCP/AWS, containers/Kubernetes, cost and latency instrumentation
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• Safety: Guardrails, escalation/human-in-the-loop design, risk classification for high-stakes outputs
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WHAT YOU BRING\n

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• 5+ years building and shipping production ML/AI systems, with real users depending on the output - not just research or labs.
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• Hands-on experience building agentic or LLM-powered applications end-to-end, from prototype to production.
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• Track record architecting shared platforms/services that support multiple product use cases, not single-purpose builds.
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• Practical experience with evaluation frameworks for AI systems - designing metrics that map to business correctness, not just model benchmarks.
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• Experience optimizing inference for throughput/latency/cost on open-weight models in production.
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• Comfort designing safety guardrails and escalation logic for high-stakes, high-consequence recommendations.
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• Experience integrating with messy, heterogeneous third-party systems (APIs, DMS, ERPs, or similar) as a given constraint.
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• A self-starter mindset - comfortable owning ambiguity and working independently across a distributed US-India team.
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BONUS POINTS\n

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• Background in automotive, dealership, or other data-heavy vertical platforms.
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• Experience with diagnostic, recommendation, or pricing systems where wrong answers have real financial/safety stakes.
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• Prior work fine-tuning or serving open-weight models at scale (not just calling a hosted API).
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• Startup or small-team energy - you've owned a product, not just a component.
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• Technical leadership or mentoring experience.
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HOW WE ROLL\n

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• Own it - flag issues early, make the call, follow through.
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• Be proactive - don't wait to be told; spot the risk, bring the fix.
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• Share the load - quality and reliability are everyone's job, not just yours.
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• Make it count - your work ships to production and touches real customers, real fast.
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How To Apply\n

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• Email : View email address on apply.placed-app.com
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