Senior AI/ML Engineer

Wespath; Glenview (IL); Hybrid; USD 162,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working arrangement

Retirement plan with company match

Job summary

Wespath is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to design, build, deploy, and support secure AI-enabled solutions. You will develop AI agents, copilots, and automations using enterprise data, APIs, and cloud platforms, partnering with stakeholders to deliver measurable business value.

You will shape AI strategy and data practices, work across Azure/AWS environments, and ensure governance, security, and compliance in production systems, contributing to improved productivity and efficiency.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including 2+ years of designing, developing, or deploying AI-enabled solutions in enterprise environments.
• Experience delivering AI solutions that demonstrate measurable business outcomes such as productivity gains, process automation, knowledge discovery, service improvements, or cost reduction.
• Proficient in Python and commonly used AI/ML technologies.
• Experience designing, testing, deploying, and supporting production software solutions in enterprise environments.
• Working knowledge of modern AI and language model concepts and experience building applications with LLM APIs, prompt/context engineering, RAG, embeddings, vector search, and model evaluation.
• Understanding of agentic AI concepts including task planning, human-in-the-loop review, orchestration, guardrails, and evaluation of agent behavior.
• Experience working with relational, document, or enterprise knowledge sources such as SQL Server, Oracle, Microsoft Fabric, SharePoint, or similar.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and support AI-enabled applications, agents, copilots, automations, and integrations.
• Evaluate market and software trends to recommend useful AI solutions to IT leadership.
• Recommend software platforms and solution approaches that align with business and technology needs.
• Help shape organization-wide AI strategy and data practices for management, governance, curation, and AI readiness.
• Convert defined business and IT use cases into practical, production-ready AI solutions that deliver measurable business value through automation, improved decision support, increased productivity, and operational efficiency.
• Partner with stakeholders to define success criteria and measure business impact of deployed AI solutions.
• Develop agents that securely use approved enterprise content, data sources, APIs, and workflows to answer questions or complete tasks.
• Prepare enterprise documents and data for AI use through metadata, indexing, retrieval design, validation, and content quality improvements.
• Build reusable prompts, skills, connectors, templates, and technical patterns that accelerate future AI solution delivery.
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise systems, collaboration tools, identity services, approved data platforms, and cloud-native services across Azure, AWS, or similar environments.
• Apply approved standards for security, privacy, PHI/PII protection, access control, monitoring, and responsible AI use.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, improve, and document deployed AI solutions so they remain reliable, supportable, and aligned with user needs.

Skills

Python

AI/ML concepts

LLM APIs

Agentic AI

Analytical skills

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Prompt management frameworks

Azure AI Foundry

Azure AI Search

Amazon SageMaker

OpenSearch

Pinecone

Job description

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

You bring the motivation, teamwork, and integrity and we will provide the collaborative culture, professional development, and opportunity to build a meaningful career at Wespath!

Location:
1901 Chestnut Ave
Glenview, Illinois, 60025
United States
Category: Information Technology
Date Needed by: 11/5/2026

Wespath is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to a diverse and inclusive company culture and does not discriminate against applicants and employees because of disability, sex, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, veteran status, or any other protected status under the law.

Wespath’s Information Technology team has an opportunity for a Senior AI/ML Engineer. This role is a hands‑on software developer responsible for designing, building, deploying, and supporting secure AI‑enabled solutions that improve business and IT productivity. This role develops AI agents, copilots, automations, integrations, and reusable components using approved enterprise data, documentation, APIs, Microsoft AI platforms, AWS AI services, and cloud‑native deployment patterns. The position partners with Product Management, business stakeholders, IT teams, and governance partners to turn defined opportunities into reliable, scalable, and production‑ready AI solutions that reduce manual effort, improve knowledge discovery, accelerate software delivery, enhance service quality, and increase operational efficiency.

More specifically, as a Senior AI/ML Engineer, you will have the following key responsibilities:

• Design, build, test, deploy, and support AI‑enabled applications, agents, copilots, automations, and integrations.
• Evaluate market and software trends to recommend useful AI solutions to IT leadership.
• Recommend software platforms and solution approaches that align with business and technology needs.
• Help shape organization‑wide AI strategy and data practices for management, governance, curation, and AI readiness.
• Convert defined business and IT use cases into practical, production‑ready AI solutions that deliver measurable business value through automation, improved decision support, increased productivity, and operational efficiency.
• Partner with stakeholders to define success criteria and measure business impact of deployed AI solutions.
• Develop agents that securely use approved enterprise content, data sources, APIs, and workflows to answer questions or complete tasks.
• Prepare enterprise documents and data for AI use through metadata, indexing, retrieval design, validation, and content quality improvements.
• Build reusable prompts, skills, connectors, templates, and technical patterns that accelerate future AI solution delivery.
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise systems, collaboration tools, identity services, approved data platforms, and cloud‑native services across Azure, AWS, or similar environments.
• Apply approved standards for security, privacy, PHI/PII protection, access control, monitoring, and responsible AI use.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, improve, and document deployed AI solutions so they remain reliable, supportable, and aligned with user needs.

Senior AI/ML Engineer Benefits and Compensation:

• Choose the medical, dental, vision, and well‑being benefits that best fit your needs from day one.
• 8% employer contribution to retirement plan with an additional match up to 2% on day one.
• 22 days of PTO + 12 paid holidays.
• Hybrid working arrangement.
• The compensation range for this position is $162,000 – $202,500 with a bonus opportunity and customary benefits. Final compensation will be set based on the hired applicant’s qualifications (education, training, and/or experience related to this role), and as such, may fall outside the range shown.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including 2+ years of designing, developing, or deploying AI‑enabled solutions in enterprise environments.
• Experience delivering AI solutions that demonstrate measurable business outcomes such as productivity gains, process automation, knowledge discovery, service improvements, or cost reduction.
• Proficient in Python and commonly used AI/ML technologies.
• Experience designing, testing, deploying, and supporting production software solutions in enterprise environments.
• Working knowledge of modern AI and language model concepts and experience building applications with LLM APIs, prompt/context engineering, RAG, embeddings, vector search, and model evaluation.
• Understanding of agentic AI concepts including task planning, human‑in‑the‑loop review, orchestration, guardrails, and evaluation of agent behavior.
• Experience working with relational, document, or enterprise knowledge sources such as SQL Server, Oracle, Microsoft Fabric, SharePoint, or similar.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and problem‑solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with or exposure to:

• AI engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, prompt management frameworks, evaluation tools, and AI operational tooling.
• AI platforms such as Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, Copilot Studio, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Q, OpenSearch, Pinecone, pgvector, or similar technologies supporting retrieval, semantic search, and AI application development.
• Applied machine learning and natural language processing techniques such as classification, entity extraction, semantic search, and model evaluation.
• Enterprise content preparation for AI, including document ingestion, metadata, embeddings, vector databases and semantic indexes, semantic search, retrieval validation, grounding strategies, and content lifecycle practices.
• Responsible AI, data governance, PHI/PII protection, access control, monitoring, secure development, and production support practices.
• Enterprise integration patterns, APIs, AWS Lambda‑based AI integrations, Azure Functions, containers, event‑driven workflows, automation tools, and human‑in‑the‑loop review processes.

Wespath Benefits and Investments is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in hiring.