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# Senior AI Engineer in Mundelein

- **Company:** Energy Jobline
- **Location:** Mundelein, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $170,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Information Systems, Python (Programming Language), Flexi (Photoshop Plugin), Prompt Engineering, Information Technology, Low Latency, Enterprise Integration, Claude, Restful APIs, Software Version Control
- **Published:** October 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.energyjobline.com/job/senior-ai-engineer-mundelein-31998728

## About the Role

* 7+ years of software or automation engineering, including 3+ years building and shipping applications backed by large models to production
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 * Direct, recent, hands-on experience building and publishing Claude skills or plug-ins. Broad experience with large models or frameworks, without shipped skills and plug-ins, is not sufficient.
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 * Demonstrated technical leadership as an individual contributor: setting standards other engineers followed, reviewing others' architecture and code, and mentoring engineers without managing them
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 * Strong Python, REST APIs, and enterprise integration, with sound fundamentals in testing, version control, and monitoring
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 * Hands-on experience with foundational models: system and prompt design, skill and tool building, function and tool calling
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 * Retrieval-augmented , embeddings, and vector stores, including chunking and reranking
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 * Evaluation and monitoring for systems backed by large models, with a working feel for cost, latency, and reliability tradeoffs
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 * Experience operating inside a regulated enterprise, with security, governance, and access control as part of normal delivery
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 * Cloud experience (Azure or GCP / Vertex AI)
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 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
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