Remote AI Solutions Architect — Production-Grade AI

Eliassen Group; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 138,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking an AI Solutions Architect to enable product teams to ship AI-native capabilities. This remote contract role involves embedding with a solution team, co-building LLM features, agentic workflows, tool calling, and RAG on top of an AI middleware platform.

You will drive evaluation discipline and reusable platform capabilities while coaching engineers and product managers. The role emphasizes sustained delivery of AI features in production, with W2 benefits and a strong

Qualifications

• Shipped LLM-powered functionality to real users.
• 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.

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.

Skills

LLM features

Agentic workflows

Evaluation engineering

Azure

REST APIs

CI/CD

Leadership

Tool calling

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Terraform

Azure Container Apps

LiteLLM

Langfuse

Observability tooling

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking an AI Solutions Architect to enable product teams to ship AI-native capabilities. This remote contract role involves embedding with a solution team, co-building LLM features, agentic workflows, tool calling, and RAG on top of an AI middleware platform.

You will drive evaluation discipline and reusable platform capabilities while coaching engineers and product managers. The role emphasizes sustained delivery of AI features in production, with W2 benefits and a strong