AI/ML Engineer
Vizient · Chicago, IL · 1 mo ago
Information Technology$77k–$135k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy machine learning models, Agentic AI systems, and LLM-based applications.
- Translate business challenges into scalable AI solutions aligned with defined success metrics.
- Develop RAG pipelines, embedding strategies, and vector search architectures.
- Build agentic workflows, prompt strategies, and orchestration patterns.
- Own AI/ML solutions end to end from design through deployment and operationalization.
- Evaluate model and Agent performance using automated and human-in-the-loop methods.
- Optimize AI systems for latency, cost, scalability, and reliability.
- Support deployment workflows, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and MLOps practices to enable scalable and reliable AI system delivery.
- Design and maintain reliable data, feature, and inference pipelines with a focus on validation, lineage, monitoring, and reproducibility.
- Stay current with advancements in AI/ML, including LLMs, agentic systems, tooling, and applied best practices, and incorporate relevant innovations into team solutions.
- Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, product stakeholders, and platform teams to deliver scalable, high-impact AI solutions aligned with business and client needs.
Qualifications
- Relevant degree preferred. Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science or a related field preferred.
- 2 or more years of relevant experience required.
- Experience deploying machine learning or AI applications into production environments required.
- Strong Python expertise and software engineering practices required.
- Experience building LLM applications such as RAG systems, prompt-based workflows, tool usage, and agentic AI systems preferred.
- Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks, vector databases, embeddings, rerankers, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar technologies preferred.
- Understanding of classical machine learning workflows, including feature engineering, model training, evaluation, error analysis, and monitoring.
- Familiarity with tools and technologies such as FastAPI, MLflow, Docker, cloud platforms, and CI/CD pipelines preferred.
- Strong understanding of evaluation methodologies for predictive ML and agentic AI-based systems preferred.
- Demonstrated curiosity, initiative, and ability to quickly learn, evaluate, and apply emerging AI tools and technologies.
- Experience working in startup, high-growth, or fast-paced product environments preferred.