Principal Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Request Technology, LLC
Chicago, US
Hybrid

Job Description

  • **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)

Skills & Requirements

Technical Skills

PythonSqlAwsDockerKubernetesCi/cd pipelinesTerraform

Employment Type

FULL TIME

Level

principal

Posted

4/10/2026

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