Production AI Solutions Architect (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 138,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401k with match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking an AI Solutions Architect to enable product teams to ship AI-native capabilities. You will embed with one solution team at a time, co-building production vertical slices across LLM features, agentic workflows, tool calling, and RAG on top of an AI middleware platform.

Responsibilities include evaluation engineering, platform capability design, and coaching engineers and product managers.

Qualifications

• Shipped LLM-powered functionality to real users, with exposure to production issues.
• Hands-on evaluation engineering with golden datasets, rubrics, LLM-as-judge, and automated quality gates.
• Agentic architecture experience across tool calling, orchestration, context and memory management, and multi-step workflows.
• RAG and semantic search implementation.
• Azure, cloud-native services, REST APIs, and CI/CD.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with direct coding contributions.
• Ability to become productive in a new codebase and business within 6 to 8 weeks.
• Clear communication of technical decisions to engineers and product managers.

Responsibilities

• Co-build production vertical slices with solution team engineers, including LLM features, agentic workflows, tool calling, and RAG integrated with an AI middleware platform.
• Own evaluation engineering with golden datasets, rubrics, LLM-as-judge, and regression detection, then hand ownership to the team.
• Design and build reusable platform capabilities on the AI middleware and guide teams through onboarding.
• Decide when to use generative AI versus deterministic approaches.
• Support discovery and shaping through a Catalyst-style program from pain-point identification to first working slice with middleware integration and baseline evaluations.
• Implement model routing, guardrails, observability, and cost controls.
• Coach engineers and product managers on AI-native software patterns, including agent harness and tool design.
• Produce durable artifacts such as architecture notes, evaluation suites, runbooks, and implementation patterns.

Skills

LLM expertise

AI architecture

Coaching engineers

Communication

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Terraform

Langfuse

REST APIs

CI/CD

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking an AI Solutions Architect to enable product teams to ship AI-native capabilities. You will embed with one solution team at a time, co-building production vertical slices across LLM features, agentic workflows, tool calling, and RAG on top of an AI middleware platform.

Responsibilities include evaluation engineering, platform capability design, and coaching engineers and product managers.