Senior AI Engineer — LangChain/Agent Systems, Hybrid

Motion Recruitment; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligible

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a rapid-growth AI technology company in downtown Chicago. You’ll build next-generation AI agents that automate complex business workflows using Python, TypeScript, LangChain, LangGraph, Docker, REST APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure.

You’ll influence architecture, design scalable systems, and work across backend, frontend, and platform layers. Hybrid work from our Chicago office is available.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong Python development experience.
• Professional experience with TypeScript.
• Experience building AI applications, LLM products, or agent-based systems.
• Hands-on experience with LangChain, LangGraph, or similar orchestration frameworks.
• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs.
• Docker and containerization experience.
• Strong software architecture and system design skills.
• Experience building production-scale applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop Python backend features and services for AI agent platforms.
• Build and integrate AI agents and LLM systems with scalable architectures.
• Support infrastructure and platform engineering to enable reliable deployments.
• Collaborate on frontend/product development where needed.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

LangChain

LangGraph

REST APIs

Docker

System architecture

Production-scale apps

Frontend (React)

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a rapid-growth AI technology company in downtown Chicago. You’ll build next-generation AI agents that automate complex business workflows using Python, TypeScript, LangChain, LangGraph, Docker, REST APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure.

You’ll influence architecture, design scalable systems, and work across backend, frontend, and platform layers. Hybrid work from our Chicago office is available.