AI Platform Engineer — Production & Security

IPM Integrated Project Management Company; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IPM is seeking an AI Solutions Engineer to join our Knowledge and Process Management team. You will translate AI capabilities into practical, scalable tools across data pipelines, security, and operational patterns, partnering with AI leads to prototype and deploy production-grade solutions aligned with enterprise standards.

You will collaborate with stakeholders across operations, IT, and practice areas, shaping AI strategy, conducting pilots, and delivering client-facing deployments while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, data science, or a related field.
• 3+ years in software development, data science, or AI/ML roles.
• Experience with production AI architectures, retrieval patterns, and evaluation infrastructure.
• Familiarity with MCP and agent tooling ecosystem.
• DevOps for AI: infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, incident response, versioning.
• Security for AI: prompt injection mitigation and data protection.
• Data engineering for AI: ingestion pipelines, embeddings, vector stores, data quality, handling regulated data.
• Comfort with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor).
• Strong Azure-focused cloud engineering; AWS/GCP experience welcome.
• Experience evaluating emerging technologies and translating needs to scalable solutions.
• Proven ability to lead initiatives and collaborate across functions.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills; independent yet collaborative.
• PM/consulting experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Identify and prioritize AI-enabled opportunities across internal ops and client engagements.
• Engage stakeholders to understand workflows, pain points, and value drivers.
• Design, develop, test, and deploy AI-enabled solutions for internal operations.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and IaC; manage dev, staging, production.
• Implement authentication and data access controls (Entra ID, RBAC, tenancy).
• Maintain internal knowledge bases for retrieval-grounded systems.
• Handle sensitive data in AI workflows (PII, regulated data).
• Improve knowledge capture and reuse across client engagements and internal ops.
• Drive consistency and scalability of IPM processes via AI.
• Support adoption through training, governance, and enablement.
• Design and deliver AI-enabled solutions in client engagements; define scope and handoffs.
• Evaluate new AI tools and pilot their adoption; lead technology pilots.
• Develop resources and playbooks for effective use of AI tools.
• Deliver training for internal teams and client stakeholders.

Skills

Software development

Data science

AI/ML

AI architecture

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

DevOps for AI

AI security

Data engineering

AI tooling (Claude Code, Cursor)

Azure cloud

AWS/GCP equivalent

Emerging tech evaluation

Stakeholder collaboration

Project leadership

Problem solving

Independent work

Project management / consulting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, data science, or related field

Tools

Azure

Entra ID

Claude Code

Cursor

CI/CD tooling

Job description

IPM is seeking an AI Solutions Engineer to join our Knowledge and Process Management team. You will translate AI capabilities into practical, scalable tools across data pipelines, security, and operational patterns, partnering with AI leads to prototype and deploy production-grade solutions aligned with enterprise standards.

You will collaborate with stakeholders across operations, IT, and practice areas, shaping AI strategy, conducting pilots, and delivering client-facing deployments while