Top Remote Artificial Intelligence Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Design and implement multi-step agentic AI workflows (orchestration, retrieval, tool use, state management) using frameworks like LangGraph/LangChain. Build retrieval pipelines over proprietary CRE data, evaluate and monitor model quality with human-in-the-loop processes, integrate Anthropic models on AWS Bedrock, implement guardrails and observability, and rapidly prototype features with Product and Design to deliver trustworthy, source-linked AI capabilities that perform real business actions.

This role involves defining AI architecture, improving system quality, leading teams, and building production-ready AI systems at Drata.

As a Staff AI Engineer, you'll lead AI product development, overseeing technical direction, system deployment, and model evaluation while collaborating across teams.

The role involves designing AI systems for mental healthcare, focusing on building scalable, production-grade systems that enhance patient engagement and clinical operations. Responsibilities include setting technical standards and ensuring safety and reliability while working with advanced AI technologies.

Hands-on technical leader who designs, builds, and deploys production-grade AI automation and agentic workflows. Responsibilities include rapid prototyping, RAG and document-intelligence systems, API integrations, orchestration, monitoring, reusable AI assets, and mentoring a small engineering team to deliver frequent releases and measurable business impact.

Take Deepgram's speech models and optimize, compile, and run them on resource-constrained embedded and edge hardware. Work across model compression, runtime performance (C/C++/Rust), RTOS/bare-metal and embedded Linux environments, vendor NPUs/DSPs and inference runtimes, benchmarking, deployment pipelines, OTA updates, and partner with silicon vendors to enable real-time, low-power on-device voice experiences.

Own end-to-end voice platform migration and scaling: LiveKit migration, real-time turn-taking, VAD, SIP/WebRTC, multi-agent handoff, training/fine-tuning voice models, inference cost optimization, and retrieval-based grounding using Supabase/pgvector.

Lead design and deliver SAP BTP AI solutions for Finance. Partner with SAP Finance teams to identify AI use cases, build GenAI capabilities (RAG, Joule Skills, agents), ensure secure, scalable integrations, validate feasibility via POCs, and produce production-ready solutions for reconciliations, controls, reporting, and financial close.

Design and scale a reusable Customer Success AI platform: build foundational AI infrastructure (orchestration, memory, context, workflow engines), optimize model routing, observability, governance, and security, lead architecture and standards, mentor engineers, and partner cross-functionally to deliver enterprise-grade, multi-product AI capabilities.

Lead design, development, and production deployment of AI/ML solutions and conversational chatbot platforms. Own end-to-end implementation, MLOps/CI-CD, containerized deployments, solution architecture, security and governance, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, enterprise architecture, and vendors to deliver scalable, monitored AI systems.

Build and operate DV's model layer: fine-tune and distill open-weight models, run on-prem inference infrastructure on Kubernetes, implement a model gateway routing across providers, evaluate model quality/cost/latency, manage GPU provisioning and utilization, and define tooling for model selection and production regression testing.

Build and deliver production agentic and LLM-backed systems for clients and internal teams, integrate with enterprise APIs, support client-facing builds, and contribute reusable patterns to the practice.

Lead AI security strategy and guardrails, design and review AI gateways and tooling, scale InfoSec review processes, reduce AI-driven security noise, drive remediation and investigations, and mentor security and platform engineers.

Design, build, and operate production AI and data systems for marketing: LLM/agent orchestration, retrieval pipelines, data pipelines, CDP and warehouse architecture, automation of manual workflows, data quality and reliability, stakeholder collaboration, and mentoring. Ship production-grade Python and SQL solutions and evaluate/monitor AI systems.

Build end-to-end full-stack AI features on a Ruby on Rails backend and React frontend, including LLM inference infrastructure, RAG, AI agents, and evaluation/observability. Design and run experiments (A/B tests), optimize systems for production performance and reliability, and iterate rapidly with product and design partners.

Design and build scalable, automated evaluation pipelines and infrastructure to validate speech, audio, and multimodal models. Translate research benchmarks into enforceable pass/fail gates, run batch and streaming tests, operate canaries and continuous monitoring, integrate quality gates into CI/CD, and partner with research, training, inference, and infra teams to prevent regressions and ensure production model quality.

As a Senior AI/Data Engineer, you will design and maintain scalable data and AI infrastructures, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable data systems and support AI-driven business capabilities.

Design, prototype, and deploy LLM-powered agents, RAG workflows, and automations that accelerate internal teams and customer-facing product features. Integrate AI systems with SaaS tools, build reusable components and evaluation frameworks, embed with business teams to deliver measurable outcomes, and establish standards for responsible AI, monitoring, and cost control across the company.

Build and own conversational voice AI products end-to-end: architect, implement, and deploy the platform. Design infrastructure, develop front-end and back-end systems, deliver reliable customer outcomes, and collaborate directly with the CTO to scale the product for enterprise customers.

Build end-to-end internal AI agents and workflow automations: discover high-value opportunities, redesign processes, implement LLM-based agents with integrations, deploy and operate solutions, and ensure security, compliance, monitoring, and adoption across GTM teams.

Lead technical direction and architecture for DAP Repository Flows, design and ship autonomous and scheduled agents that operate on customer repositories, improve DAP onboarding, collaborate across teams on platform interfaces, mentor engineers, and solve high-scale technical problems to raise engineering quality.

Lead design, build, and deploy of large-scale data platforms for LLMs, RAG, and agentic AI systems. Hands-on coding, architecting fault-tolerant pipelines, establishing MLOps/DataOps best practices, mentoring engineers, and operationalizing research into production across Exabyte-scale distributed systems.

Own and improve the AI Social render pipeline and agent loops that generate on-brand Instagram carousels and reels. Build prompts, structured outputs, tool-calling, and media composition to ship high-quality generative image, video, voice, and music products in collaboration with product, design, and content strategy.

Build and operate Coinbase's LLM and agent platform: unified model gateway, AI Hub, secure microVM agent runtime, knowledge base integrations, AI FinOps, observability and evaluation tooling, and production-grade agent deployments with teams across the company.

Design, build, and operate a secure, scalable enterprise Generative AI platform on AWS (including AWS Bedrock). Own platform lifecycle: architecture, deployment, operations, monitoring, incident management, reliability, and governance. Implement LLM inference, RAG, Agents, guardrails, observability, security controls, access management, compliance, and cost optimization. Support production-grade GenAI applications in regulated/financial environments.