Remote AI Solutions Architect: Ship Production AI

Eliassen Group; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 286,541,000 - 358,176,000; Part time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking an AI Solutions Architect for remote contract work, focused on delivering AI-native capabilities within production teams. 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.

Responsibilities include evaluation engineering, platform capability design, and coaching engineers and product managers in AI-native patterns.

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.

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

Tool calling

RAG

Evaluation engineering

Azure OpenAI

Azure Container Apps

Terraform

Tools

Azure

Cloud-native services

REST APIs

Terraform

Langfuse

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking an AI Solutions Architect for remote contract work, focused on delivering AI-native capabilities within production teams. 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.

Responsibilities include evaluation engineering, platform capability design, and coaching engineers and product managers in AI-native patterns.