Remote AI Solutions Architect for Production AI

Eliassen Group; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 138,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking an AI Solutions Architect to enable product teams to ship AI-native capabilities. You will embed with one solution team at a time, co-building production vertical slices across LLM features, agentic workflows, tool calling, and RAG on top of an AI middleware platform. You will establish evaluation discipline and coach engineers and product managers for ongoing delivery in production.

Rate: $100.00 to $125.00/hr. w2.

Qualifications

• Shipped LLM-powered functionality to real users.
• Hands-on evaluation engineering with golden datasets and rubrics.
• Agentic architecture across tool calling, orchestration, context and memory.
• RAG and semantic search implementation.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with REST APIs and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Co-build production vertical slices with engineers on the solution team.
• Own evaluation engineering with golden datasets, rubrics and CI/CD gates.
• Design and build reusable platform capabilities on the AI middleware.
• Decide when to use generative AI versus deterministic approaches.
• Support discovery and shaping from pain-point to first working slice.
• Implement model routing, guardrails, observability, and cost controls.
• Coach engineers and product managers on AI-native software patterns.
• Produce architecture notes, evaluation suites and runbooks.

Skills

Azure

CI/CD

REST APIs

Cloud-native services

Evaluation engineering

LLM

Tool calling

RAG

Langfuse

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Terraform

Azure Container Apps

Observability

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking an AI Solutions Architect to enable product teams to ship AI-native capabilities. You will embed with one solution team at a time, co-building production vertical slices across LLM features, agentic workflows, tool calling, and RAG on top of an AI middleware platform. You will establish evaluation discipline and coach engineers and product managers for ongoing delivery in production.

Rate: $100.00 to $125.00/hr. w2.