Senior AI Engineer – Enterprise LLM Platforms

Eliassen Group; Covington (KY); On-site; USD 103,000 - 121,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group in Covington, KY is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to help build a new AI engineering organization and deliver AI capabilities from concept through production. You will shape technical direction, influence engineering best practices, and partner with leaders across business, product, data science, and engineering teams.

The role blends hands-on AI, data, and cloud work with stakeholder alignment and enterprise-grade delivery. W2 benefits are provided for this contract position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; 8+ years of software engineering.
• Proven delivery of production-grade software and distributed systems at scale.
• Deep expertise building AI applications with LLMs, agent frameworks, and orchestration platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation, semantic search, and enterprise knowledge systems.
• Full-stack proficiency with Python, TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Next.js.
• Cloud deployment experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong grounding in software architecture, design patterns, security, and reliability.
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills and sound technical judgment.
• Proven ability to collaborate across engineering, data, product, and business teams from concept to production.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy and establish engineering best practices for AI-powered solutions across advisor and client experiences.
• Design, build, and deploy scalable applications and distributed systems in cloud environments.
• Develop AI and LLM capabilities including agents, RAG, semantic search, and workflow automation using platforms such as OpenAI, Claude, Bedrock, and frameworks like LangChain and LangGraph.
• Partner with business leaders, product teams, architects, data scientists, and engineers to identify high-value use cases and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Implement knowledge retrieval and recommendation systems leveraging vector databases and retrieval frameworks.
• Lead full-stack development using Python, TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Next.js with secure APIs and cloud-native patterns.
• Apply platform engineering and DevOps practices including containers, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code for reliable delivery.
• Drive decisions that improve performance, reduce costs, and increase reliability while aligning with business priorities.
• Mentor engineers, set technical standards, and foster a high-performance engineering culture.
• Translate emerging AI capabilities into practical, production-grade applications that enhance advisor productivity and client engagement.

Skills

AI engineering

Distributed systems

Full-stack dev

Python

TypeScript

Node.js

React

Next.js

OpenAI

Claude

Bedrock

LangChain

LangGraph

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

OpenAI

Claude

Bedrock

LangChain

LangGraph

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Eliassen Group in Covington, KY is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to help build a new AI engineering organization and deliver AI capabilities from concept through production. You will shape technical direction, influence engineering best practices, and partner with leaders across business, product, data science, and engineering teams.

The role blends hands-on AI, data, and cloud work with stakeholder alignment and enterprise-grade delivery. W2 benefits are provided for this contract position.