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Principal Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Job in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60290, USA
Listing for: Request Technology, LLC
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-01-12
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    AI Engineer, Systems Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 100000 - 125000 USD Yearly USD 100000.00 125000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Principal Artificial Intelligence Engineer

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Responsibilities:

  • Partner with the Executive Director, AI Engineering to help define and execute on the company AI technical roadmap
  • Lead and partner on the architecture of scalable systems incorporating LLMs and AI into organizational processes and infrastructure
  • Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers on engineering best practices and system design
  • Conduct code/architectural reviews ensuring production readiness, safety, and adherence to high security and compliance standards
  • Implement testing, evaluation, and monitoring frameworks for AI systems including hallucination detection and bias assessment
  • Establish safety guardrails and responsible AI practices for LLM applications in a regulated environment
  • Connect AI agents to organizational systems and workflows
  • Foster continuous learning culture in a rapidly evolving AI landscape

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related technical field
  • 10+ years software engineering/systems architecture experience with strong technical leadership
  • 5+ years as senior technical contributor on complex production systems
  • Expert in Python and proficient in SQL
  • System design expertise: monolithic and microservice architectures, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, APIs
  • Foundational experience with LLMs and familiarity with multiple frontier lab models (e.g., Gemini, Claude, GPT)
  • Familiarity of risk vectors in AI applications including hallucinations, bias, prompt injection, data privacy
  • Production experience with AI applications or LLM-powered systems
  • Experience with RAG architectures and context engineering
  • Familiarity with diverse LLM provider APIs and experience connecting agents to systems
  • Experience tinkering with frontier lab tools and products
Seniority level
  • Mid-Senior level
Employment type
  • Full-time
Job function
  • Information Technology

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