Remote AI Solutions Architect - Production-Ready LLM & RAG Expert

Eliassen Group; Columbia (SC); Remote; USD 138,000 - 172,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking an AI Solutions Architect for a remote contract role to enable product teams in shipping AI-native capabilities. You will embed with a solution team, co-build production vertical slices, and establish evaluation discipline while coaching engineers and product managers to iterate after rotation.

Experience in LLM-powered features, RAG, tool calling, and cloud-native delivery with Azure is preferred.

Qualifications

• Shipped LLM-powered functionality to real users
• Hands-on evaluation engineering with golden datasets and automated quality gates
• Agentic architecture across tool calling and multi-step workflows
• RAG and semantic search implementation
• Azure cloud services and CI/CD
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to ramp up in new codebases

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, 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
• 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-powered

Evaluation engineering

Azure OpenAI

Azure

Tools

REST APIs

Terraform

Langfuse

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking an AI Solutions Architect for a remote contract role to enable product teams in shipping AI-native capabilities. You will embed with a solution team, co-build production vertical slices, and establish evaluation discipline while coaching engineers and product managers to iterate after rotation.

Experience in LLM-powered features, RAG, tool calling, and cloud-native delivery with Azure is preferred.