Remote AI Solutions Architect — Production-Grade LLMs

Eliassen Group; Richmond (VA); 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 remotely. 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, design reusable platform capabilities, and coach engineers and product managers so teams continue to iterate after you rotate.

Qualifications

• Shipped LLM-powered functionality to real users and production systems.
• Hands-on evaluation engineering with golden datasets and automated quality gates.
• Experience with tool calling, orchestration, context/memory management, and multi-step workflows.

Responsibilities

• Co-build production vertical slices with solution team engineers, including LLM features and RAG integrated with an AI middleware platform.
• Own evaluation engineering with golden datasets, rubrics, LLM-as-judge, 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

Agentic architecture

LLM integration

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Azure Container Apps

Terraform

REST APIs

CI/CD

Langfuse

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking an AI Solutions Architect to enable product teams to ship AI-native capabilities remotely. 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, design reusable platform capabilities, and coach engineers and product managers so teams continue to iterate after you rotate.