Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sikich, through its subsidiary Tantus, is seeking a highly skilled AI Foundry Engineer to support government clients. The role involves translating business requirements into AI systems, assessing generated code, and ensuring the deployment of effective applications.
Responsibilities
- Understand and translate business requirements and problem statements into a set of prompts that direct AI foundry platforms and ecosystems to generate full stack, AI and agent-based systems
- Assess the generated systems code to discover design gaps and inefficiencies, standard and coding style issues. Identify and implement fixes in the design and code as necessary
- Test, verify, and deploy the end-to-end system / application
Skills
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a government issued Public Trust
- 20+ years of overall software, distributed systems, and cloud native system development experience
- Coding standards (Google JavaScript / JSON style guide, PEP 8 style guide)
- Design patterns (GOF, Others)
- Architecture frameworks
- 2-3+ years of developing and integrating AI, Gen AI, and agentic AI algorithms, models, frameworks, and prompt engineering
- Knowledge about emerging standards for AI agent ecosystem
- SME / Power user for at least one Gen AI system (Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, CoPilot)
- Prompt engineering - translating business / user requirements into prompts
- 5-7+ years of in-depth, hands-on experience with one or more web application frameworks and programming languages
- Angular, React, Python, NodeJS, Rust
- Minimum of 5 years in-depth, hands-on experience with one or more cloud tech stacks, including virtual network architecture, design, implementation and management
- Minimum of one-year in-depth, hands-on experience with one or more QA frameworks and test automation platforms
- Experience in testing AI and LLM's using tools to evaluate accuracy, bias, and reliability of AI tools and systems
- Hands-on experience in using tools such as Brainstrust and Galileo
- Servant Leader – You are hyper focused on engaging employees, fostering their development, and building a positive culture
- Solutions Focused – You see opportunities in every business problem and can develop, articulate, and implement solutions
- Collaboration – You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units
- Instills Trust - You do what you say, and you follow through on commitments, you act with integrity, you are consistent and are perceived as credible
- Impact & Influence Thinking – You gain support for ideas, proposals, and solutions, and get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives/objectives
- AWS / Google (preferred)
- AZURE / Oracle
Benefits
- Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary maintains a Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy. We encourage every full-time employee, as your role permits, to utilize paid time off (personal time, mental/physical health care, vacation, sick leave, etc.). Waiting for time off to accrue is common at other companies. At Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary, you do not have to wait for this benefit to kick in. FTO is activated on your first day with our organization.
- Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary will also recognize paid holidays during the year and strives to permit employees to have time off the last week of the calendar year when client and project work permits.
- Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary offers a comprehensive wellness program to engage, challenge and empower team members to take responsibility for their wellbeing. Activities can be tracked through our wellness provider to obtain gift cards and other rewards.
- Flexible work arrangements
- Health, dental, vision, life, and accident/death/disability insurance options
- HSA employer contribution
- Eleven (11) paid holidays annually.
- A robust paid Parental Bonding Leave program covering birth, adoption, and foster children.
- 401(k) with employer contributions
- Tuition reimbursement
- Generous employee referral bonus program
- Client referral bonus program
- Pet insurance
- FORCE – Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary community volunteer program enabling each team member to use up to four hours of paid time annually to volunteer and make a difference in their local communities.
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