Remote AI Engineer: Production Agents & Lakehouse

Fluent, LLC; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 130,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401K with employer match

Pre-tax savings and transit/parking

Job summary

Fluent, LLC is hiring its first dedicated AI Engineer to build production AI agents and automated workflows on the Databricks lakehouse. You will collaborate daily with Data Engineering, Data Science, and Solution Architecture to deliver trusted data and reliable actions for business teams.

You will ship end-to-end workflows, create reusable components, and help build a scalable AI-enabled platform in a role that blends hands-on coding with collaboration across stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software or data engineering experience.
• Strong Python and SQL.
• Built and shipped at least one LLM-powered application used by real users.
• Experience with Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows) or equivalent lakehouse.
• Experience integrating SaaS and internal systems via REST APIs, webhooks, and OAuth.
• You test your work, instrument it, and care about cost.
• You communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Ship production agents and automated workflows from backlog end-to-end.
• Build the data foundation in Databricks: Unity Catalog tables/views, Lakeflow pipelines, ingestion from systems like HubSpot.
• Collaborate with Data Science to measure quality: evaluation sets, drift tracking, cost and latency instrumentation.
• Integrate with Fluent systems through APIs, webhooks, MCP servers, and orchestration (Databricks Workflows, n8n, GitHub Actions).
• Expose platform data and actions as APIs for business teams to use directly.
• Build reusable components: Claude skills, MCP connectors, prompt/evaluation libraries, and playbooks.
• Handle consumer data per Fluent privacy/compliance; coordinate with IT & Security.
• Demo weekly; document in Confluence; share learnings in brown bags and tech talks.
• Use AI-assisted development (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as standard work.

Skills

Python

SQL

LLM-powered development

Databricks

REST APIs

Testing & monitoring

Communication

AI coding assistants

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Job description

Fluent, LLC is hiring its first dedicated AI Engineer to build production AI agents and automated workflows on the Databricks lakehouse. You will collaborate daily with Data Engineering, Data Science, and Solution Architecture to deliver trusted data and reliable actions for business teams.

You will ship end-to-end workflows, create reusable components, and help build a scalable AI-enabled platform in a role that blends hands-on coding with collaboration across stakeholders.