Forward Deployed AI Engineer for Rapid Prototyping & Agents

Spectraforce Technologies; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 82,656 - 165,312; Full time

Job summary

Spectraforce Technologies is seeking an Agentic AI Specialist for a Chicago, IL-based role. The position emphasizes rapid prototyping, architectural design, and end‑to‑end AI agent development within enterprise environments.

Remote options exist but local Chicago-area focus is preferred, with onsite work strongly encouraged. The ideal candidate will design scalable architectures, build production‑ready prototypes, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver impactful AI-driven

Responsibilities

• Lead solution design for complex, cross‑functional data and AI problems – from initial discovery through to technical blueprint.
• Define and communicate architecture decisions, trade‑offs, and delivery approaches to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Design scalable, modular systems that balance the need for speed with enterprise standards for reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Participate in architecture reviews, ensuring alignment with enterprise patterns and platform standards.
• Create clear technical documentation: architecture diagrams, data flow maps, API contracts, and solution briefs.
• Design and deliver working prototypes for complex data and AI problems within compressed timeframes, often days to weeks.
• Translate ambiguous business requirements into concrete technical solutions with minimal hand‑holding.
• Balance speed of delivery with enterprise standards – your prototypes are production‑ready, not throwaway.
• Continuously iterate on solutions based on direct feedback from product managers, program leads, and end users.
• Develop intuitive front‑end interfaces and dashboards that bring data and AI outputs to life for business users.
• Apply strong UX instincts to simplify complex flows and make agent outputs accessible and actionable for non‑technical stakeholders.
• Design, build, and deploy AI agents and multi‑agent systems that automate complex workflows end‑to‑end.
• Develop and maintain agent skills – discrete, reusable capabilities that compose into larger agentic pipelines.
• Implement and extend Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and clients to connect AI agents with enterprise tools, APIs, and data sources.
• Design evaluation harnesses, guardrails, and monitoring pipelines to ensure agent reliability and safety in production.
• Stay current with the rapidly evolving agentic AI landscape and proactively introduce new techniques and tooling to the team.
• Integrate LLMs, RAG systems, and ML models into production workflows.
• Embed directly with product, program, and engineering teams to co‑define problems and co‑deliver solutions.
• Influence technical direction and build alignment across teams without relying on formal authority.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non‑technical business stakeholders – in writing, in meetings, and in executive presentations.
• Mentor and elevate junior engineers, sharing patterns and practices for agentic development, prompt design, and rapid delivery.
• Foster a collaborative, low‑ego team culture where speed and quality go hand in hand.

Job description

Spectraforce Technologies is seeking an Agentic AI Specialist for a Chicago, IL-based role. The position emphasizes rapid prototyping, architectural design, and end‑to‑end AI agent development within enterprise environments.

Remote options exist but local Chicago-area focus is preferred, with onsite work strongly encouraged. The ideal candidate will design scalable architectures, build production‑ready prototypes, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver impactful AI-driven