Senior AI/ML Engineer: LLMs, RAG & Production Systems

Vizient; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 102,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Vizient is seeking engineers to design, build, and deploy scalable AI and machine learning solutions that drive business impact. You will lead the full AI lifecycle from experimentation through production, developing both traditional ML models and LLM-powered systems such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines and agentic workflows.

You will collaborate across teams to translate complex problems into reliable, high-performing solutions aligned with client needs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in ML/AI engineering.
• Experience deploying ML models to production environments.
• Experience building LLM-powered apps (RAG, agentic workflows).

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and deployment of ML models and LLM apps.
• Translate business challenges into scalable AI solutions with KPIs.
• Design and implement RAG pipelines and embedding strategies.
• Build agentic workflows and prompt strategies for LLM systems.
• Own AI/ML solutions end-to-end from scoping to deployment.
• Establish monitoring, guardrails, and cost optimization.

Skills

Python

ML engineering

API development

CI/CD

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Vector databases

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Advanced degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

FastAPI

MLflow

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

VectorDBs

Job description

Vizient is seeking engineers to design, build, and deploy scalable AI and machine learning solutions that drive business impact. You will lead the full AI lifecycle from experimentation through production, developing both traditional ML models and LLM-powered systems such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines and agentic workflows.

You will collaborate across teams to translate complex problems into reliable, high-performing solutions aligned with client needs.