AI Engineer

Insight Global is seeking an Applied AI Engineer (Contract) for a top insurance services client. This candidate will help establish and scale an enterprise AI engineering capability focused on delivering real-world AI solutions quickly and securely. The ideal candidate will leverage foundation models such as Claude, Gemini, and GPT to build reusable AI skills, develop and manage enterprise plug-ins, and deploy automation solutions at scale. This position combines hands-on AI engineering with governance, security, and platform enablement, offering the opportunity to work on cutting-edge agentic AI initiatives while collaborating closely with platform, automation, security, and business teams in a fast-growing AI Center of Excellence.

• 5+ years of software engineering and/or automation engineering experience

• 2+ years of experience building and deploying LLM-powered solutions into production

• Strong Python development skills

• Experience with REST APIs and enterprise integrations

• Solid software engineering fundamentals (testing, version control, monitoring)

• Hands-on experience with foundation models such as Claude, Gemini, and/or GPT

• Experience with prompt engineering, system design, tool/function calling, and AI skill development

• Familiarity with Claude Enterprise platform, including Skills, Projects, Plug-ins, Marketplace, and Claude Code

• Azure and/or GCP (Vertex AI) experience

• Experience working within enterprise governance, security, and compliance environments

• Understanding of RBAC, access controls, and data classification

Strong communication skills and ability to work independently * Agentic AI and orchestration framework experience

• Model Context Protocol (MCP) experience

• Agent-to-agent communication patterns

• Identity and access management concepts (RBAC, agent identity, least privilege)

• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) experience

• Embeddings and vector database experience

• Insurance industry experience

Experience in highly regulated industries