Principal AI Engineer

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

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

Responsibilities:

· Partner with the Executive Director of AI Engineering to define and execute the AI technical roadmap, translating organizational priorities into concrete architectural decisions

· Lead the company’s agentic AI efforts: architect, build, and operate systems that connect AI agents to internal systems, data pipelines, and business workflows

· Leverage the company’s direct relationships with AWS and Anthropic to evaluate and adopt new model capabilities and tooling as they become available

· Build and ship production AI applications on AWS using Claude and related Anthropic tooling, maintaining high standards for reliability, security, and auditability

· Architect scalable systems that integrate LLMs and AI agents into company’s internal systems, operational workflows, and business processes, owning decisions from design through production deployment

· Define and enforce AI safety standards appropriate for a regulated SIFMU environment, including hallucination detection, output validation, bias assessment, and audit trails that satisfy SEC and CFTC oversight expectations

· Establish responsible AI practices and safety guardrails for LLM applications operating on sensitive financial data

Qualifications:

· Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or a related technical field

· 10 years of software engineering and systems architecture experience, with demonstrated technical leadership

· 5 years as a senior individual contributor on complex, high-stakes production systems

· Expert-level Python; proficient in SQL

· Deep system design expertise: distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and MCP servers

· Hands-on experience with data engineering: pipelines, transformation, and data modeling

· AWS experience; comfort with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines

· Strong production AI/LLM experience, or demonstrated hands-on passion for the space with the engineering depth to ramp quickly

· Experience designing and operating agentic AI systems in enterprise environments

· Experience with context engineering strategies including RAG, prompt architecture, and retrieval pipeline design

· Familiarity with frontier models including Claude, GPT, and Gemini, and hands-on experimentation with emerging tools

· Hands-on experience with Anthropic's tooling and APIs, including the Claude API, Claude.ai, or the Anthropic Console

· Experience connecting AI agents to enterprise systems and workflows

· Infrastructure as code (Terraform)

INDD

Pay: $200,000.00 - $240,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Chicago, IL 60654

Salary : $200,000 - $240,000