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# AI Engineer

- **Company:** IT RECRUITING SOLUTIONS, LLC
- **Location:** Mundelein, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $350,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software Debugging, Python (Programming Language), Software Architecture, Recommender Systems, TypeScript, Enterprise Software Applications, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Backend
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/d4043e1e-65d6-4fa6-b3f8-24693584ed18/ai-engineer

## About the Role

* 4+ years in backend or full-stack engineering with hands-on LLM product development.
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 * Experience shipping LLM-powered ranking, retrieval or recommendation systems into production.
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 * A background building consumer-facing (B2C) products is essential - not just internal tools or enterprise applications.
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 * Strong applied AI experience across prompting, embeddings, RAG, agent memory and personalisation.
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 * Practical experience building evaluation frameworks and debugging ranking or retrieval failures in production.
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 * Experience with TypeScript or Python and AI-assisted development workflows.
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 * The ability to move quickly, make architectural decisions and take ownership without layers of management.
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## Description

This Senior AI Engineer position suits someone from either a high-growth startup or product-led technology company who enjoys building and shipping rather than researching models.