AI Engineer

Eliassen Group; Little Rock (AR); Remote; USD 124,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a software engineer to join a small enablement pod focused on LLM-powered features. The role is remote, collaborating with senior architects and product teams to deliver reusable AI capabilities and production-ready services.

You will build RAG pipelines, tool-calling agents, and back-end APIs in a .NET/Java stack, with Python familiarity, using Azure cloud, REST APIs, Git, and CI/CD. Expect 3+ years of experience and a hands-on, collaborative approach.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering.
• Backend experience in .NET or Java with working familiarity in Python.
• Hands‑on experience delivering LLM-powered features such as RAG, tool-calling, prompt engineering, and structured outputs.
• Experience with Azure or comparable cloud, REST APIs, Git, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship LLM-powered features including RAG pipelines, tool-calling agents, multi-step workflows, and prompt frameworks.
• Integrate solutions with the AI middleware platform and contribute reusable capabilities.
• Implement evaluation and testing for AI outputs including test sets, automated checks, regression detection, and quality gates.
• Develop APIs, backend services, integrations, and UI components required for AI features.
• Add observability, logging, and cost tracking to deployed AI systems and remediate issues.
• Pair with solution team engineers to enable independent execution of AI feature development.
• Document designs, decisions, and lessons to accelerate future teams.

Tools

Azure

REST APIs

Git

CI/CD

React

TypeScript

Job description

Description

Remote

Our client is modernizing its platform with AI-native capabilities. You will be the second engineer in a two-person enablement pod, embedded with solution teams to co-build LLM-powered features and transfer knowledge. You will partner with a senior AI Solutions Architect and collaborate with product managers, engineers, and the AI platform team to deliver reusable capabilities, reliable evaluations, and production-ready services.

Rate: $90.00 to $110.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities

• Build and ship LLM-powered features including RAG pipelines, tool-calling agents, multi-step workflows, and prompt frameworks.
• Integrate solutions with the AI middleware platform and contribute reusable capabilities.
• Implement evaluation and testing for AI outputs including test sets, automated checks, regression detection, and quality gates.
• Develop APIs, backend services, integrations, and UI components required for AI features.
• Add observability, logging, and cost tracking to deployed AI systems and remediate issues.
• Pair with solution team engineers to enable independent execution of AI feature development.
• Document designs, decisions, and lessons to accelerate future teams.

Experience Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering.
• Backend experience in .NET or Java with working familiarity in Python.
• Hands‑on experience delivering LLM-powered features such as RAG, tool calling, prompt engineering, and structured outputs.
• Experience with Azure or comparable cloud, REST APIs, Git, and CI/CD.
• Comfortable with a modern front end such as React, Angular, or TypeScript.
• Demonstrated curiosity and ability to become productive in a new codebase and business within 6 to 8 weeks.
• Preferred: Azure OpenAI, Azure Container Apps, Terraform.
• Preferred: Vector databases and semantic search.
• Preferred: Exposure to eval frameworks, LiteLLM, Langfuse, or similar.
• Preferred: Event-driven architectures.
• Preferred: Financial systems or payments exposure.

Recruitment Transparency Notice

Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team ([e-mail], 781-808-2924) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI‑assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group’s use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Additional Information

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre‑tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked‑in state/locality.

About Eliassen Group

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Aff...