Senior AI Platform Engineer (Hybrid/Remote)

HED; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

HED is seeking an AI Platform Engineer to develop, evaluate, and improve AI capabilities that support our people and our practice. You will build and optimize production AI solutions, evaluate large language models, improve AI-generated responses, and transform organizational knowledge into secure, accessible, and actionable intelligence.

Working within our Data & AI team, you will own defined technical initiatives and collaborate with developers, data engineers, and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 4–6+ years in software engineering, ML engineering, data engineering, or related technical discipline.
• Hands-on experience developing, deploying, or supporting LLM applications in production.
• Experience implementing AI evaluations, benchmarks, or performance testing.
• Working knowledge of RAG, information retrieval, prompt engineering, and context optimization.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, Git, automated testing, and modern software development practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain model benchmarking, evaluation datasets, testing methods, and performance baselines across production AI applications.
• Evaluate models, prompts, and configurations against response quality, reliability, cost, latency, and risk; document findings and recommend improvements.
• Deliver defined AI use cases from requirements and design through implementation, testing, documentation, adoption, and improvement.

Skills

Python

SQL

Git

LLM production

RAG

Prompt engineering

Context optimization

CI/CD

Automated testing

Cloud applications

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software/Data/IS or related field

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Amazon Bedrock

Anthropic

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

MLflow

Job description

HED is seeking an AI Platform Engineer to develop, evaluate, and improve AI capabilities that support our people and our practice. You will build and optimize production AI solutions, evaluate large language models, improve AI-generated responses, and transform organizational knowledge into secure, accessible, and actionable intelligence.

Working within our Data & AI team, you will own defined technical initiatives and collaborate with developers, data engineers, and business stakeholders.