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AI Engineer III

TekWissen LLC

  • Mettawa, IL
  • 5 days ago
  • Remote
  • $90–$105

Highlights

Knowledge / Skills: Primary expertise (required): Possess deep, hands-on experience with the AWS Strands agent framework (or equivalent) building AI/LLM-driven agentic features: prompt design, tool/function design and calling, observability, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), streaming responses, token/cost management, guardrails, and evaluation of model outputs. Demonstrate strong API development skills: designing and building robust, performant APIs (FastAPI strongly preferred), including async request handling, Pydantic data modeling, authentication/authorization, versioning, rate limiting, observability, and OpenAPI contracts.

Numbers & Facts

LocationMettawa, IL (
Remote)
IndustryComputer/IT Services
Salary$90–$105
Company Size100 to 499 employees
Year Founded2009
Websitehttp://www.tekwissen.com/

Description

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance people's lives.

Job Title: AI Engineer III
Location: Mettawa, IL 60045
Duration: 3 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Remote

Job Description:
Primary functions / Primary goals / Objectives:
  • The AI/Python API Engineer is a core technical contributor whose primary expertise is building AI/LLM agentic features exposed via APIs in Python within an enterprise cloud environment.
  • The role is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining a FastAPI (Python) backend that integrates large language models and other AI capabilities into enterprise production-grade services running on AWS.
  • The defining requirements for this position are deep, hands-on experience across the areas of: AI agents, API development, Python, enterprise cloud (AWS preferred), and day-to-day use of Claude Code.
  • These are the essential competencies; remaining skills, frontend and security, are valuable but secondary.
  • The engineer uses AI-assisted development tooling, Claude Code in particular, as a central part of their workflow to plan, write, review, and ship high-quality code quickly.
Knowledge / Skills:
Primary expertise (required):
  • Possess deep, hands-on experience with the AWS Strands agent framework (or equivalent) building AI/LLM-driven agentic features: prompt design, tool/function design and calling, observability, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), streaming responses, token/cost management, guardrails, and evaluation of model outputs.
  • Maintain expert-level proficiency in Python, including modern idioms, async programming, typing, and testing.
  • Demonstrate strong API development skills: designing and building robust, performant APIs (FastAPI strongly preferred), including async request handling, Pydantic data modeling, authentication/authorization, versioning, rate limiting, observability, and OpenAPI contracts.
  • Demonstrate substantial enterprise cloud experience, AWS preferred: building and operating production workloads with services such as Lambda, ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, S3, RDS, Secrets Manager, IAM, and CloudFormation/SAM, following infrastructure-as-code and cloud-governance practices.
  • Demonstrate effective, day-to-day use of Claude Code and AI-assisted development workflows to plan, write, review, and refactor code responsibly, increasing throughput without sacrificing quality.
  • Demonstrate critical problem-solving and debugging skills across AI, API, backend, and cloud concerns.
  • Demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication, including the ability to document technical decisions for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Demonstrate the ability to prioritize and multi-task in a high-volume, rapidly paced environment.
Nice to have (not required):
  • Experience with React 19 / TypeScript and modern frontend integration with backend APIs.
  • Information security and/or security architecture experience: secure SDLC, threat modeling, IAM/least-privilege design, and secrets/data-protection practices.
Project / Process Management:
  • Design and implement FastAPI endpoints and services that expose AI/LLM capabilities securely and performantly.
  • Integrate and operationalize LLM/AI features - prompt engineering, model selection, guardrails, and output validation - into production workflows.
  • Deploy and operate application infrastructure in an enterprise AWS environment, following infrastructure-as-code practices.
  • Use Claude Code and AI-assisted tooling as a primary part of the development process to accelerate delivery while maintaining quality.
  • Establish and maintain automated testing, CI/CD, logging, and monitoring for reliable, on-time delivery.
  • Participate in code reviews and uphold coding and API-design standards.
  • Communicate progress, risks, and technical trade-offs to stakeholders in a timely, accurate manner.
  • (Nice to have) Contribute to the React 19 / TypeScript frontend as needed.
Accountability / Scope:
  • Reports to the Engineering Lead / Technical Manager.
  • Partners with product, data/ML, and platform/cloud teams on project initiatives.
  • Accountable for the technical design, implementation, and operational health of the AI-driven Python API services and their cloud infrastructure.
  • Accountable for adherence to coding, security, cloud-governance, and compliance standards across all delivered work.
  • Adherence to all company-wide engineering, data-handling, and cloud-governance policies.
Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
  • Substantial professional experience building production APIs in Python - typically 5 8+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Demonstrated experience delivering AI/LLM-driven applications (prompting, RAG, tool use, output evaluation).
  • Hands-on experience with FastAPI or a comparable modern Python API framework.
  • Demonstrated enterprise cloud experience, AWS preferred, building and operating production workloads.
  • Practical, demonstrable experience using Claude Code (or equivalent AI-assisted development tooling) in a professional workflow.
  • Strong communication skills: verbal, written, and technical documentation.
Desirable / nice to have:
  • Master's degree or equivalent related technical experience.
  • React 19 / TypeScript frontend experience.
  • Information security and/or security architecture experience.
  • Experience working in regulated, high-visibility enterprise environments.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About Company

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



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