Senior AI Engineer

IBM; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting is seeking an AI Engineer to build and deploy AI-powered systems, including RAG pipelines and agentic architectures. You will design backend services in Python using FastAPI and integrate with MCP tools and enterprise APIs.

Hybrid work in a delivery center supports AWS deployment and scalable operations. Required: Bachelor's in a related field; strong backend Python and API experience; knowledge of LLM orchestration and OpenSearch tools.

Qualifications

• Experience building RAG pipelines and agentic systems.
• Strong understanding of LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g. LangChain, LangGraph, Langfuse).
• Strong backend engineering experience with Python.
• Hands-on experience building APIs/services with FastAPI.
• Experience integrating with MCP tools, internal APIs, and enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy AI-powered systems, including RAG pipelines and agentic systems.
• Design and implement backend services using Python and FastAPI.
• Deploy and operate services on AWS, ensuring scalability and reliability.

Skills

RAG pipelines

agentic systems

Python

FastAPI

LLM orchestration

LangChain

LangGraph

Langfuse

backend engineering

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

OpenSearch

Kubernetes

OpenSearch plugins

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

LangChain

LangGraph

Langfuse

Job description

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As an AI Engineer, you will be responsible for building and deploying AI-powered systems, including RAG pipelines and agentic systems. You will design and implement backend services using Python and FastAPI, and integrate with various tools and systems. You will also deploy and operate services on AWS, ensuring scalability and reliability.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Experience building RAG pipelines and agentic systems
• Strong understanding of LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g. LangChain, LangGraph, Langfuse)
• Strong backend engineering experience with Python
• Hands-on experience building APIs/services with FastAPI
• Experience integrating with MCP tools, internal APIs, and enterprise systems

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Expertise with OpenSearch (index design, ingestion pipelines, analyzers, relevance tuning)
• Knowledge of embeddings generation and vector database best practices
• Experience with OpenSearch plugins, custom scoring, or ingestion frameworks
• Familiarity with Kubernetes
• Experience with observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Langfuse)

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Data & Analytics

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Up to 20% or 1 day a week

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?