AI Engineer, Enterprise LLM Apps

Hub International; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement (Chicago)

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

HUB International is seeking an AI Engineer to join the RPA & Automation team in Chicago. You will design, build, and ship production-grade AI applications using Claude and governing enterprise data, with emphasis on skills, plug-ins, and MCP governance.

The role requires hands-on experience with LLM-backed apps, model design, retrieval-augmented generation, and cloud platforms, within a regulated enterprise setting. Hybrid work from Chicago is offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software or automation engineering, including 2+ years building and shipping LLM-backed applications to production.
• Direct, recent, hands-on experience building and publishing Claude skills or plug-ins.
• Strong Python, REST APIs, and enterprise integration, with sound fundamentals in testing, version control, and monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with foundational models: system and prompt design, skill and tool building, function and tool calling.
• Retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, and vector stores, with chunking and reranking.
• Evaluation and monitoring for LLM systems, with a working feel for cost, latency, and reliability tradeoffs.
• Experience operating inside a regulated enterprise, with security, governance, and access control as part of normal delivery.
• Cloud experience (Azure or GCP)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Build AI Applications by creating reusable skills and plug-ins and composing them into governed AI apps for HUB business lines.
• Configure and tune Claude and Gemini foundations models for HUB use cases with system and prompt design.
• Build retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, and workflows over governed enterprise data.
• Productionize prototypes into reliable, governed applications.
• Own and govern the skill & plug-in marketplace and MCP catalog with versioning and governance.
• Set enterprise standards for skills, plug-ins, and MCP across HUB
• Ensure access control and audit to AI assets with Security collaboration
• Route complex builds to Enterprise Engineering when needed and publish results.
• Stand up evaluation harnesses, guardrails, monitoring, and logging for enterprise-scale AI outputs.
• Provide production support for skills, plug-ins, and applications.
• Partner with stakeholders to turn prototypes into production-ready capabilities.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Engineering and data teams to ship reliably and maintain governance.
• Document technical decisions for handoff and audits

Skills

Python

REST APIs

enterprise integration

system and prompt design

RAG

embeddings

monitoring

security & access control

Azure or GCP

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Claude skills or plug-ins

Claude Code

Job description

HUB International is seeking an AI Engineer to join the RPA & Automation team in Chicago. You will design, build, and ship production-grade AI applications using Claude and governing enterprise data, with emphasis on skills, plug-ins, and MCP governance.

The role requires hands-on experience with LLM-backed apps, model design, retrieval-augmented generation, and cloud platforms, within a regulated enterprise setting. Hybrid work from Chicago is offered.