Lead Agentic AI Engineer - LLM Pipelines & Production

Latitude; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Benefits package

Job summary

Lenovo LATC is seeking a technical lead to own the full agentic stack—from LLM orchestration to production deployment. You will design agentic LLM pipelines, build RAG systems, and integrate external tools, collaborating with AI engineers and ML scientists to deliver production-ready solutions.

The role focuses on cutting-edge AI foundation models, with a hybrid work arrangement in Chicago. A strong background in ML/AI, NLP, and software engineering is required.

Qualifications

• 6 years of industry experience in ML or applied AI with strong hands-on LLM experience (prompting, fine-tuning, inference optimization)
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, applied math, physics, or a related field
• Experience with NLP
• Fluent in Python and the modern ML stack (PyTorch, Hugging Face, vLLM or equivalent)
• Proven experience with agentic frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or custom) and tool‑use patterns (function calling, MCP, structured outputs)
• Solid grasp of RAG architecture, embedding models, and LLM evaluation methodology
• Strong software engineering fundamentals (python and at least one other programming language)
• Experience with Git, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• Experience deploying ML models using containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

Responsibilities

• Design and ship agentic LLM pipelines: multi-step reasoning, tool use, reflection loops, and long-horizon planning and memory
• Build evaluation frameworks to measure agent reliability and safety across different tasks.
• Build and maintain RAG systems, vector stores, and external tool integrations
• Deploy and scale agent systems in production; translate relevant research into working systems
• Be a technical lead, working closely with other AI engineers, ML scientists, and technical product managers to put pipelines in production
• Keep abreast of the latest developments in AI ML, applying cutting‑edge research and methodologies to your work

Skills

LLM experience

NLP

Python

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Applied Math/Physics

Masters/PhD preferred

Tools

LangGraph

AutoGen

CrewAI

PyTorch

Hugging Face

vLLM

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

MCP

Job description

Lenovo LATC is seeking a technical lead to own the full agentic stack—from LLM orchestration to production deployment. You will design agentic LLM pipelines, build RAG systems, and integrate external tools, collaborating with AI engineers and ML scientists to deliver production-ready solutions.

The role focuses on cutting-edge AI foundation models, with a hybrid work arrangement in Chicago. A strong background in ML/AI, NLP, and software engineering is required.