Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Request Technology, LLC
Chicago, Illinois, United StatesFull-timePosted Sep 18, 2026

About the role

***We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full-time role***

***Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote***

Responsibilities:

Own the design and delivery of agentic AI systems end-to-end, from architecture through production deployment

Architect agent orchestration patterns, tool and context integration, and evaluation pipelines for reliability in a regulated environment

Own AI infrastructure supporting AIRE's agents and applications on AWS, and contribute to the team's growing infrastructure self-sufficiency

Implement technical safeguards against AI-specific risks, including hallucination detection, prompt injection defense, and output validation, in collaboration with company AI Governance function

Build audit logging and human-in-the-loop checkpoints into agentic workflows so agent actions remain traceable and reviewable in a regulated environment

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; Master's preferred

4-7 years of software engineering experience, with production AI/LLM systems experience preferred

Strong Python; proficient SQL; solid distributed systems and API design fundamentals

Hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications or agentic systems

Working knowledge of AI-specific risk areas (prompt injection, output validation, hallucination mitigation, data privacy), or demonstrated ability to build this expertise quickly

Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred); comfort with Docker, CI/CD, and containerization fundamentals

Direct experience with Claude, the Anthropic API, or Claude.ai/Console

Experience designing agent orchestration or Model Context Protocol (MCP)-based integrations

Production experience operating LLM-powered applications or agentic systems at scale

Responsibilities

  • Own the design and delivery of agentic AI systems end-to-end, from architecture through production deployment
  • Architect agent orchestration patterns, tool and context integration, and evaluation pipelines for reliability in a regulated environment
  • Own AI infrastructure supporting AIRE's agents and applications on AWS, and contribute to the team's growing infrastructure self-sufficiency
  • Implement technical safeguards against AI-specific risks, including hallucination detection, prompt injection defense, and output validation
  • Build audit logging and human-in-the-loop checkpoints into agentic workflows

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; Master's preferred
  • 4-7 years of software engineering experience, with production AI/LLM systems experience preferred
  • Strong Python; proficient SQL; solid distributed systems and API design fundamentals
  • Hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications or agentic systems
  • Working knowledge of AI-specific risk areas or demonstrated ability to build this expertise quickly
  • Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred); comfort with Docker, CI/CD, and containerization fundamentals
  • Direct experience with Claude, the Anthropic API, or Claude.ai/Console
  • Experience designing agent orchestration or Model Context Protocol (MCP)-based integrations

Skills mentioned

PythonSQLDistributed SystemsAWSDockerCI/CDGenerative AILarge Language ModelsAI AgentsModel Context Protocol

About Request Technology, LLC

With over 45 years of experience, Request Technology, LLC, formerly Quest Enterprises, Inc., is an established entrepreneurial executive search firm that specializes in recruiting Information Technology professionals for organizations throughout the United States. Extensive industry knowledge and long term working relationships offer the ability to know exactly what our clients need, providing them with the best available candidates in today's competitive job market. Request Technology, LLC consists of a group of Associate Recruiters, each of whom has an extensive background within the search industry. Request Technology specializes in Enterprise Infrastructure, Technical Support, Data and Voice Telecommunications, Multi-protocol Connectivity, E-Commerce, Security, Database Administration, Client-Server Development, Internet Development, Java Development and other IT opportunities. Please contact us via email at opportunity@requesttechnology.com

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