Senior Enterprise AI Engineer – LLMs, Cloud-Native, Hybrid

RLI Insurance Company; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangements

PTO and holidays

ESOP / ownership program

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

RLI Insurance Company is seeking a senior software engineer to design, develop, and deploy enterprise AI solutions across the organization. The role focuses on building AI-enabled applications, integrating with enterprise systems, and delivering scalable cloud-native services.

You will work with product owners, architects, and development teams to implement secure and maintainable AI-driven workflows, leveraging LLMs, RAG, and AI agents in a modern DevOps environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of professional software engineering experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise applications.
• Experience designing and developing cloud-native applications, distributed systems, and RESTful APIs.
• Experience developing AI-enabled applications utilizing LLMs, RAG, AI agent frameworks, and prompt engineering techniques.
• Experience designing vector databases, vector search, embeddings, and semantic retrieval solutions.
• Experience using AI-assisted software development tools to improve software design, development, testing, and delivery.
• Experience working within Agile software development environments utilizing Git-based source control and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy enterprise AI applications using modern software engineering practices.
• Build intelligent solutions utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, and workflow orchestration technologies.
• Develop scalable backend services, REST APIs, and cloud-native applications that integrate AI capabilities with enterprise systems.
• Design and implement integrations using APIs, messaging, and event-driven architectures.
• Develop document processing, OCR, and knowledge extraction solutions using AI technologies.
• Design and implement vector search, semantic retrieval, and enterprise knowledge base solutions.
• Deploy, manage, and optimize applications within Kubernetes-based environments.
• Collaborate with business partners to understand business needs and translate them into practical AI-enabled solutions.
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, Agile ceremonies, technical planning, and solution design discussions.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and software engineering best practices.
• Mentor team members and promote high standards for software quality, testing, security, observability, and maintainability.
• Assist with special projects or perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Python

Cloud-native architecture

Kubernetes

Docker

REST APIs

Agile methodologies

CI/CD

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Git

GitLab

Terraform

IaC

Job description

RLI Insurance Company is seeking a senior software engineer to design, develop, and deploy enterprise AI solutions across the organization. The role focuses on building AI-enabled applications, integrating with enterprise systems, and delivering scalable cloud-native services.

You will work with product owners, architects, and development teams to implement secure and maintainable AI-driven workflows, leveraging LLMs, RAG, and AI agents in a modern DevOps environment.