Senior AI Engineer - Production Agents & Harness (Hybrid)

Thresh Consulting; Chicago (IL); Hybride; USD 190 000 - 235 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Healthcare benefits

401(k) with company matching

Hybrid travel flexibility

High ownership over technical方向

Résumé du poste

Thresh Consulting — Strategy in Action for the AI Era — seeks a Senior Applied AI Engineer for Agentic Systems. The role combines building agents, harnesses, and the context layer for production-ready AI solutions with 7+ years of software experience and 2+ years in LLM-powered systems.

Hybrid work in Denver, Chicago, or NYC preferred, with a base salary of $190k–$235k and up to 25% performance-based bonus.

Qualifications

• 7+ years shipping production software.
• 2+ years building LLM-powered systems for real users.
• Experience with agents and harnesses in production.
• Production experience with tool integration and eval frameworks.
• Understanding of prompt injection, data leakage, and permissions.
• Backend strength in Python or TypeScript; APIs and databases.
• Familiarity with cloud AI services and CI/CD.

Responsabilités

• Design and build agent systems and harnesses for client production.
• Lead 1–3 engineers; collaborate with product and design.
• Create context layers from codebases and docs; keep it current.
• Develop eval sets and automated gates for capability and cost.
• Monitor quality, drift, cost, latency, and business outcomes.
• Ensure security, privacy, and compliance from sprint 1 onward.
• Mentor engineers and contribute reusable patterns to the practice.

Connaissances

LLM-powered systems

Agent/harness development

Tool integration

LLM risk management

Backend development

Cloud AI services

Open-source contributions

Outils

Claude Agent SDK

Claude/ AWS Bedrock

LangGraph

OpenAI APIs

Docker

PostgreSQL

Description du poste

Thresh Consulting — Strategy in Action for the AI Era — seeks a Senior Applied AI Engineer for Agentic Systems. The role combines building agents, harnesses, and the context layer for production-ready AI solutions with 7+ years of software experience and 2+ years in LLM-powered systems.

Hybrid work in Denver, Chicago, or NYC preferred, with a base salary of $190k–$235k and up to 25% performance-based bonus.