Remote AI Engineer — LLM & RAG Features

Eliassen Group; Frankfort (KY); Remote; USD 124,000 - 152,000; Full 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, embedded with solution teams to co-build LLM-powered features and transfer knowledge.

You will partner with a senior AI Solutions Architect and collaborate with 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 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 curiosity and ability to become productive in a new codebase and business within 6 to 8 weeks.
• Preferred: Azure OpenAI, Azure Container Apps, Terraform.
• Preferred: Vector databases and semantic search.
• Preferred: Exposure to eval frameworks, LiteLLM, Langfuse, or similar.
• Preferred: Event-driven architectures.
• Preferred: Financial systems or payments exposure.

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

Prompt engineering

APIs/Backend

Azure cloud

REST APIs

Git

CI/CD

React/TypeScript

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Terraform

Terraform

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, embedded with solution teams to co-build LLM-powered features and transfer knowledge.

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