Remote AI Engineer — Build LLM Features & RAG

Eliassen Group; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 124,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking an AI Engineer for a remote contract role. You will be the second engineer in a two-person enablement pod, embedding with solution teams to co-build LLM-powered features and transfer knowledge.

You will collaborate with an AI Solutions Architect, product managers, engineers, and the AI platform team to deliver reusable capabilities, reliable evaluations, and production-ready services.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Backend experience in .NET or Java with working familiarity in Python.
• Hands-on experience delivering LLM-powered features such as RAG, tool calling, prompt engineering, and structured outputs.
• Experience with Azure or comparable cloud, REST APIs, Git, and CI/CD.
• Comfortable with frontend technologies such as React, Angular, or TypeScript.
• Ability to quickly become productive in a new codebase within 6–8 weeks.
• Preferred: Azure OpenAI, Terraform, Azure Container Apps, Langfuse, LiteLLM, vector databases.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship LLM-powered features including RAG pipelines, tool-calling agents, multi-step workflows, and prompt frameworks.
• Integrate solutions with the AI middleware platform and contribute reusable capabilities.
• Implement evaluation and testing for AI outputs including test sets, automated checks, regression detection, and quality gates.
• Develop APIs, backend services, integrations, and UI components required for AI features.
• Add observability, logging, and cost tracking to deployed AI systems and remediate issues.
• Pair with solution team engineers to enable independent execution of AI feature development.
• Document designs, decisions, and lessons to accelerate future teams.

Skills

LLM-powered features

Azure cloud

REST APIs

Git

CI/CD

Frontend: TypeScript/React/Angular

Python familiarity

Event-driven architectures

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Terraform

Azure Container Apps

Langfuse

LiteLLM

Vector databases

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking an AI Engineer for a remote contract role. You will be the second engineer in a two-person enablement pod, embedding with solution teams to co-build LLM-powered features and transfer knowledge.

You will collaborate with an AI Solutions Architect, product managers, engineers, and the AI platform team to deliver reusable capabilities, reliable evaluations, and production-ready services.