Remote AI Solutions Architect for Production LLM & RAG

Eliassen Group; Springfield (IL); Remote; USD 138,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is actively seeking an AI Solutions Architect to enable product teams to ship AI-native capabilities from within a single solution team. You will co-build production vertical slices that integrate LLM features, agentic workflows, tool calling, and RAG on top of our middleware platform.

You will establish evaluation discipline, design reusable platform capabilities, and coach engineers and product managers to iterate after you rotate, ensuring sustained delivery of AI features in

Qualifications

• Shipped LLM-powered functionality to real users with exposure to production issues.
• Hands-on evaluation engineering with golden datasets, rubrics, LLM-as-judge, and automated quality gates.
• Agentic architecture experience across tool calling, orchestration, context and memory management, and multi-step workflows.
• RAG and semantic search implementation.
• Azure, cloud-native services, REST APIs, and CI/CD.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with direct coding contributions.
• Ability to become productive in a new codebase and business within 6 to 8 weeks.
• Clear communication of technical decisions to both engineers and product managers.
• Preferred: Azure OpenAI, Azure Container Apps, Terraform.
• Preferred: LiteLLM or similar routing, Langfuse or similar observability.
• Preferred: Experience embedding with or coaching product teams, including consulting or platform enablement.
• Preferred: Facilitation of discovery or use-case prioritization sessions.
• Preferred: Exposure to financial systems, payments, or Office of the CFO.

Responsibilities

• Co-build production vertical slices with solution team engineers, including LLM features, agentic workflows, tool calling, and RAG integrated with an AI middleware platform.
• Own evaluation engineering with golden datasets, rubrics, LLM-as-judge, hallucination and regression detection, and CI/CD quality gates, and transition ownership to the team.
• Design and build reusable platform capabilities on the AI middleware and guide teams through onboarding.
• Decide when to use generative AI versus deterministic approaches.
• Support discovery and shaping through a Catalyst-style program from pain-point identification to first working slice with middleware integration and baseline evaluations.
• Implement model routing, guardrails, observability, and cost controls.
• Coach engineers and product managers on AI-native software patterns, including agent harness and tool design.
• Produce durable artifacts such as architecture notes, evaluation suites, runbooks, and implementation patterns.

Job description

Eliassen Group is actively seeking an AI Solutions Architect to enable product teams to ship AI-native capabilities from within a single solution team. You will co-build production vertical slices that integrate LLM features, agentic workflows, tool calling, and RAG on top of our middleware platform.

You will establish evaluation discipline, design reusable platform capabilities, and coach engineers and product managers to iterate after you rotate, ensuring sustained delivery of AI features in