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# AI Engineer

- **Company:** SECURE ROOTS
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Software Deployment, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, AI Infrastructure, Large Language Models, Build Management, Kubernetes, Virtual Agents, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** September 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/b75c9232-428d-4c87-bfe5-7fd4bf2bad1e

## About the Role

* 4-7 years of software engineering experience.
 * Strong Python, SQL, AWS, APIs, and distributed systems skills.
 * Hands-on LLM/GenAI or agentic AI development experience.
 * Experience with Docker and CI/CD.
 * Production system ownership from design through deployment.
 * Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or related field.

Preferred: Claude/Anthropic, MCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, AI security, data engineering, or financial services experience.

## Description

We're seeking an AI Engineer to build and deploy production-grade LLM and agentic AI solutions using Python, AWS, and modern AI technologies. This is a hands-on role focused on architecture, development, AI reliability, and production deployment., * Build and deploy LLM/agentic AI applications.

 * Design agent orchestration, tool/context integrations, and evaluation workflows.
 * Develop AI infrastructure on AWS.
 * Implement safeguards for hallucinations, prompt injection, data privacy, and output validation.
 * Support architecture/code reviews and mentor junior engineers.


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