AI Foundry Engineer (Tantus)

Team members at Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary have a lot in common while also being part of a rich and varied group of contributors, creating a distinct and thriving culture. Chief among our commonalities is a desire for growth and a shared unity of purpose in our professional lives. We believe that through diverse perspectives, challenging the status quo and rewarding action, we accelerate innovation and drive growth – for our clients, for ourselves and for our communities.

About the role

Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary, is seeking a highly skilled AI Foundry Engineer to support our government client.

Responsibilities

• Understand and translate business requirements and problem statements into a set of prompts that direct AI foundry platforms and ecosystems to generate full stack, AI and agent-based systems
• Assess the generated systems code to discover design gaps and inefficiencies, standard and coding style issues. Identify and implement fixes in the design and code as necessary
• Test, verify, and deploy the end-to-end system / application

Requirements

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a government issued Public Trust
• 20+ years of overall software, distributed systems, and cloud native system development experience
• Coding standards (Google JavaScript / JSON style guide, PEP 8 style guide)
• Design patterns (GOF, Others)
• Architecture frameworks
• 2-3+ years of developing and integrating AI, Gen AI, and agentic AI algorithms, models, frameworks, and prompt engineering
• Knowledge about emerging standards for AI agent ecosystem
• SME / Power user for at least one Gen AI system (Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, CoPilot)
• Prompt engineering - translating business / user requirements into prompts
• 5-7+ years of in-depth, hands-on experience with one or more web application frameworks and programming languages: Angular, React, Python, NodeJS, Rust
• Minimum of 5 years in-depth, hands-on experience with one or more cloud tech stacks, including virtual network architecture, design, implementation and management: AWS / Google (preferred), AZURE / Oracle
• Minimum of one-year in-depth, hands-on experience with one or more QA frameworks and test automation platforms
• Experience in testing AI and LLM’s using tools to evaluate accuracy, bias, and reliability of AI tools and systems
• Hands-on experience in using tools such as Brainstrust and Galileo

Skills

• Servant Leader – You are hyper focused on engaging employees, fostering their development, and building a positive culture.
• Solutions Focused – You see opportunities in every business problem and can develop, articulate, and implement solutions.
• Collaboration – You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units.
• Instills Trust - You do what you say, and you follow through on commitments, you act with integrity, you are consistent and are perceived as credible.
• Impact & Influence Thinking – You gain support for ideas, proposals, and solutions, and get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives/objectives.

About Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary

Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary, offers the public and private sectors a diverse platform of professional services across consulting, technology, and compliance. Highly specialized and hands-on teams deliver integrated solutions rooted in deep industry experience. Our approach is strategically and thoughtfully designed to help our clients, teams and communities accelerate success. Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary has approximately 2,000 team members and operates across North America, EMEA and APAC.

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy – no waiting period; activated on your first day
• Paid holidays, including time off the last week of the calendar year when client and project work permits
• Comprehensive wellness program with rewards for participation
• Flexible work arrangements
• Health, dental, vision, life, and accident/death/disability insurance options
• HSA employer contribution
• Eleven (11) paid holidays annually
• Robust paid Parental Bonding Leave program covering birth, adoption, and foster children
• 401(k) with employer contributions
• Tuition reimbursement
• Generous employee referral bonus program
• Client referral bonus program
• Pet insurance
• FORCE – community volunteer program with up to four hours of paid time annually to volunteer

Pay

The salary range for this role is $165,000 - $195,000. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. Compensation ranges for roles in our Government Services pillar are determined by contract with the specific government agency Sikich is servicing.