Senior Agentic AI Engineer & Architect

Request Technology, LLC; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Request Technology, LLC is seeking a Senior AI Engineer for AI Research & Engineering in Chicago. The role leads end-to-end agentic AI systems on Anthropic/Claude models and AWS infrastructure, with mentorship for junior engineers in a greenfield environment.

The team designs agent orchestration, integration, and evaluation pipelines, while implementing safeguards against AI-specific risks and ensuring regulatory traceability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 4-7 years of software engineering experience, with production AI/LLM systems experience preferred.
• Strong Python; proficient SQL; solid distributed systems and API design fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications or agentic systems.
• Knowledge of AI risk areas and data privacy, or ability to develop quickly.
• Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred); comfort with Docker, CI/CD, and containerization fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of agentic AI systems end-to-end, from architecture through production deployment.
• Architect agent orchestration patterns, tool and context integration, and evaluation pipelines for reliability in a regulated environment.
• Own AI infrastructure supporting AIRE's agents and applications on AWS, and contribute to the team's growing infrastructure self-sufficiency.
• Implement safeguards against AI risks, including hallucination detection and prompt injection defense, with AI Governance.
• Build audit logging and human-in-the-loop checkpoints into agentic workflows for traceability.
• Mentor Associate and Senior Associate engineers through code and architecture review.
• Contribute technical perspective to evolving engineering standards and practices.

Skills

Python

SQL

distributed systems

API design

LLM

agentic AI

mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related

Tools

AWS

Docker

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Request Technology, LLC is seeking a Senior AI Engineer for AI Research & Engineering in Chicago. The role leads end-to-end agentic AI systems on Anthropic/Claude models and AWS infrastructure, with mentorship for junior engineers in a greenfield environment.

The team designs agent orchestration, integration, and evaluation pipelines, while implementing safeguards against AI-specific risks and ensuring regulatory traceability.