Senior AI Engineer

Post Date

Mar 25, 2026

Location

Chicago,
Illinois

ZIP/Postal Code

60661
US
Jun 01, 2026 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract

Category

Programmer / Developer

Req #

CHI-f8060b59-14bd-4e99-b20b-a6f53cec1677

Pay Rate

$57 - $71 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

The Innovation Lab is expanding and seeking Senior AI Engineers to design and build prototypes, POCs, and MVPs focused on emerging technologies. This team operates as a shared service across four organizations, incubating experimental solutions that are later handed off to domain-specific engineering teams for scaling and production.

What You’ll Do
• Design and build prototypes, POCs, and MVPs across emerging technology initiatives
• Focus heavily on AI / GenAI solutions, including LLM-based applications
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate ideas into working prototypes
• Hand off validated solutions to downstream engineering teams (dev, UAT, production)
• Rapidly experiment, iterate, and validate ideas in a lab-style environment

Required Skills
• Strong Python development experience
• Hands-on experience building LLM-based applications
• Familiarity with LangChain
• Experience generating and accelerating development using AI tools (e.g., Claude)
• Cloud experience -they are primarily in GCP/Azure so those are preferred
• Proven ability to build fast, functional prototypes

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Required Skills & Experience

Skill sets: Ability to develop prototypes, PoCs, MVPs using one or more of the following,
1. AI/ML Knowledge: Strong foundation in AI, deep learning, and machine learning principles.
2. Programming Skills: Expertise in Python and tools like Hugging Face, Langchain, and OpenAI API.
3. Large Language Model Expertise: Hands on experience building, fine tuning, evaluating, and deploying LLMs (open source and commercial).Agentic AI & Workflow
4. Orchestration: Experience building agent based systems using tools like LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI agents, or similar frameworks..
5. Multi-Modal Data and AI Tools: Experience with multi-modal data and intelligent agent-based tools.
Mindset: Self-motivated individual with a passion for solving hard problems using AI/GenAI. Must have collaborative and an innovative mindset.

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.