Chicago Senior AI Engineer: Agentic Workflows & LLMs

Instant Alliance, LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Instant Alliance, LLC is seeking a Senior AI Software Engineer based in Chicago to design, architect, and deploy production-grade generative AI applications. You will lead agentic workflows, develop custom tooling with MCP, and build backend Python services for AI-driven data workflows.

The role emphasizes enterprise security, data governance, and cross-functional collaboration with Security, Legal, and Engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering with Python.
• Production experience building agentic applications using LangGraph/LangChain/AutoGen.
• Hands-on MCP servers, tool-use loops, and function calling.

Responsibilities

• Architect agentic workflows and multi-agent architectures.
• Build, secure, and integrate custom tools with MCP and Python APIs.
• Develop backend AI microservices, RAG pipelines, and evaluation harnesses.
• Collaborate with Security, Legal and Engineering to ensure compliance.
• Optimize latency, token usage, and cost for production deployments.

Skills

Python

LangGraph

LangChain

AutoGen

MCP servers

LLM APIs

Vector databases

Job description

Instant Alliance, LLC is seeking a Senior AI Software Engineer based in Chicago to design, architect, and deploy production-grade generative AI applications. You will lead agentic workflows, develop custom tooling with MCP, and build backend Python services for AI-driven data workflows.

The role emphasizes enterprise security, data governance, and cross-functional collaboration with Security, Legal, and Engineering teams.