Remote AI Platform Engineer: Build Scalable AI Systems

Alight Solutions Ltd; Deerfield (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Alight Solutions Ltd is seeking engineers to help build an AI engineering platform that powers agentic assistants serving millions of users. You will own development of agent patterns, retrieval systems, and guardrails to enable safe, scalable AI-driven transactions within the benefits ecosystem.

The role emphasizes building the MCP server for a skills registry, reusable LangGraph patterns, and a robust CI/CD pipeline on AWS.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python (3.10+).
• Working knowledge of AWS core services (IAM, ECS/Fargate, networking).
• Strong software engineering discipline: version control, code review, testing, documentation, clean code.
• Security awareness: handle sensitive data; think about secrets, permissions, data protection by default.

Responsibilities

• Develop agent patterns, retrieval, and guardrails for participant interactions.
• Build MCP server for a skills registry accessible to AI coding agents in IDE.
• Create reusable agent patterns in LangGraph for multi-agent orchestration, memory, tool use, guardrails.

Skills

Python proficiency

AWS

Software engineering discipline

Security awareness

Tools

Git/GitHub

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

ECS/Fargate

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Alight Solutions Ltd is seeking engineers to help build an AI engineering platform that powers agentic assistants serving millions of users. You will own development of agent patterns, retrieval systems, and guardrails to enable safe, scalable AI-driven transactions within the benefits ecosystem.

The role emphasizes building the MCP server for a skills registry, reusable LangGraph patterns, and a robust CI/CD pipeline on AWS.