Senior AI & Emerging Tech Software Engineer (Hybrid/Remote)

EPITEC; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

PTO

401(k) match

Job summary

EPITEC is seeking a senior IT Software Engineer 4 to join an Emerging Technology team in Chicago. This hands-on role focuses on evaluating, prototyping, and applying new technologies, including Generative AI, LLMs, and cloud-native solutions, to real-world business problems.

The candidate will lead technical work, mentor peers, and contribute to architecture reviews while remaining deeply involved in development, testing, and experimentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/IT or related field plus 8+ years of experience, or 10+ years without a degree.
• Strong hands-on software engineering across the full SDLC.
• Experience designing, developing, testing, integrating, and deploying complex software solutions.
• Proficiency with Python and modern languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, Go).
• Experience with APIs, cloud-native apps, distributed systems, CI/CD, DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, development, testing, and integration of modern software solutions and POC initiatives.
• Evaluate and prototype emerging technologies (Gen AI, LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, cloud-native tech).
• Build and experiment with software using Python and other modern languages.
• Incorporate AI into software products, workflows, and enterprise environments.
• Mentor engineers and lead architecture/design reviews.
• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, security, and UX.

Skills

Python

APIs

DevOps

Mentoring

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related field

10+ years of relevant experience without a degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Containers

Serverless architectures

Vector databases

Git

Job description

EPITEC is seeking a senior IT Software Engineer 4 to join an Emerging Technology team in Chicago. This hands-on role focuses on evaluating, prototyping, and applying new technologies, including Generative AI, LLMs, and cloud-native solutions, to real-world business problems.

The candidate will lead technical work, mentor peers, and contribute to architecture reviews while remaining deeply involved in development, testing, and experimentation.