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Lead AI Engineer

Tekfortune Inc.

  • Chicago, IL
  • 10 days ago

    Highlights

    You will be responsible for identifying opportunities to leverage AI for business improvement, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring the successful deployment of AI models into production. Tekfortune is a fast-growing consulting firm specialized in permanent, contract & project-based staffing services for world s leading organizations in a broad range of industries.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationChicago, IL
    IndustryComputer Software
    Company Size20 to 49 employees
    Year Founded2014
    Websitehttp://www.tekfortune.com/

    Description

    Tekfortune is a fast-growing consulting firm specialized in permanent, contract & project-based staffing services for world s leading organizations in a broad range of industries. In this quickly changing economic landscape, virtual recruiting and remote work are critical for the future of work. To support the active project demands and skills gaps, our staffing experts can help you find the best job for you.



    Job Position: Lead AI Engineer
    Location: Chicago, IL or Houston, TX

    Job Description
    Seeking dynamic and innovative AI Leads to drive our artificial intelligence initiatives. In this role, you will lead the development and implementation of AI solutions across various projects, guiding a team of data scientists and engineers.
    You will be responsible for identifying opportunities to leverage AI for business improvement, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring the successful deployment of AI models into production. Your leadership will help shape the AI strategy, enhance our technological capabilities, and deliver impactful solutions to our clients.

    Technical Stack
    • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, semantic caching, and context window optimization
    • Function calling, tool use, and structured data extraction schemas
    • Evaluation metrics, tracing, and hallucination reduction guardrails
    • Designing agentic-first workflows and autonomous decision loops
    • Multi-agent coordination patterns, including supervisor-worker models, decentralized collaboration, and stateful graphs
    • Frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, and Amazon Bedrock Core Runtime for state and memory management
    • Emerging interoperability standards such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocols, including memory management
    • Vector databases, such as Milvus and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, for high-speed similarity search
    • Data pipelines and embedding-generation workflows using Python, FastAPI, or Apache Spark
    • Cloud-native deployment on AWS, including:
      • Amazon Bedrock
      • AWS Lambda
      • Amazon EKS
      • Amazon SageMaker
      • Amazon S3
      • Amazon RDS
      • Amazon DocumentDB
    • Containerization and orchestration tools, including Docker and Kubernetes
    • CI/CD pipelines for automated testing of non-deterministic AI outputs
    • Observability and logging pipelines for tracking agent token usage, latency, and failure states
    • Responsible AI frameworks, data privacy compliance, and bias-mitigation guardrails

    Roles and Responsibilities
    Key Responsibilities
    • Lead AI-related projects from conception through implementation, ensuring alignment with business goals.
    • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to define project requirements and deliverables.
    • Oversee the data preparation process, including data collection, cleansing, and transformation.
    • Stay updated on emerging AI trends and technologies to integrate cutting-edge solutions.
    • Mentor and guide junior team members on AI best practices and methodologies.
    • Ensure high-quality deliverables by conducting rigorous testing and validation of AI models.
    • Communicate findings and insights effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

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    For more information and other jobs available please contact our recruitment team at

    careers@tekfortune.com

    . To view all the jobs available in the USA and Asia please visit our website at https://www.tekfortune.com/careers/ .

    About Company

    Tekfortune is a software solutions company providing project development and staff augmentation services to companies in various industries including Healthcare, Banking, Finance, Telecommunication and Aviation.

    Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.

    In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.

    Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.

    We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.

    Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.

    We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.

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