Senior AI Engineer & Tech Lead — On-Site in Cedar Rapids

Motion Recruitment; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment in Cedar Rapids, IA seeks a Contract Lead AI Engineer to mentor a 4-7 person team and own AI architecture for enterprise-grade systems in aerospace/defense contexts.

You will design, build, and deploy production AI solutions, optimize prompts and token usage, and guide experimentation, with hands-on coding and leadership within an agile environment. On-site 5 days a week, focusing on reliability and certification.

Qualifications

• Lead teams of 4–7 engineers.
• Experience with Python for LLMs, prompts, and model optimization.
• Experience deploying production AI systems.
• Hands-on architect and coder for AI systems.

Responsibilities

• 40% AI engineering & LLM development.
• 30% Python software engineering.
• 15% Architecture & technical leadership.
• 10% Agentic workflows & automation.
• 5% Documentation & testing.

Skills

Team leadership

Python & LLMs

Production AI systems

Hands-on engineering

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

Go

C/C++

Job description

Motion Recruitment in Cedar Rapids, IA seeks a Contract Lead AI Engineer to mentor a 4-7 person team and own AI architecture for enterprise-grade systems in aerospace/defense contexts.

You will design, build, and deploy production AI solutions, optimize prompts and token usage, and guide experimentation, with hands-on coding and leadership within an agile environment. On-site 5 days a week, focusing on reliability and certification.