Remote AI Engineer: LLM Features & RAG Pipelines

Eliassen Group; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 124,000 - 152,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking an AI Engineer for a remote contract role to help modernize AI-enabled platforms. You will partner with senior architects and cross-functional teams to build reusable AI capabilities, ensuring reliable evaluation and production-ready services.

We expect 3+ years in software engineering, backend exposure in .NET/Java with Python, and hands-on LLM delivery experience. Responsibilities include API/backend/UI work, observability, and cost tracking, with a focus on rapid

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering.
• Backend experience in .NET or Java with Python familiarity.
• 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 a modern frontend such as React, Angular, or TypeScript.
• Demonstrated ability to ramp up in a new codebase and business within 6–8 weeks.

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

RAG pipelines

Tool-calling agents

Prompt engineering

Structured outputs

Azure

REST APIs

Git

CI/CD

React/TypeScript

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Azure Container Apps

Terraform

Vector databases

Langfuse

LiteLLM

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking an AI Engineer for a remote contract role to help modernize AI-enabled platforms. You will partner with senior architects and cross-functional teams to build reusable AI capabilities, ensuring reliable evaluation and production-ready services.

We expect 3+ years in software engineering, backend exposure in .NET/Java with Python, and hands-on LLM delivery experience. Responsibilities include API/backend/UI work, observability, and cost tracking, with a focus on rapid