AI Engineer
HUB International2 days ago
Base Salary
$135k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build reusable Claude skills, package them as plug-ins, and compose them into governed AI applications.
- Configure and tune foundational models such as Claude and Gemini using system and prompt design.
- Build retrieval-augmented generation workflows, embeddings, and multi-step workflows over governed enterprise data.
- Productionize experimental AI prototypes into reliable, governed applications.
- Own and govern the skills, plug-in, and MCP marketplaces and catalogs, including intake, publishing, versioning, and maintenance.
- Set enterprise standards for skills, plug-ins, and MCP across HUB surfaces and engineering teams.
- Build simple to moderate skills, plug-ins, and MCP connections, routing complex infrastructure and integration work to Enterprise Engineering.
- Implement access control, least privilege, auditability, evaluation harnesses, golden-set testing, guardrails, monitoring, and logging.
- Provide production support and partner with business stakeholders, Enterprise Engineering, and data teams to deliver production-ready capabilities.
- Document technical decisions and AI assets for handoff, audit, and maintenance.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software or automation engineering experience, including 2+ years building and shipping LLM-backed applications to production.
- Recent hands-on experience building and publishing Claude skills or plug-ins; broad LLM or framework experience alone is insufficient.
- Strong Python, REST API, enterprise integration, testing, version control, and monitoring skills.
- Experience with foundational models, system and prompt design, skill and tool building, and function and tool calling.
- Experience with RAG, embeddings, vector stores, chunking, and reranking.
- Experience evaluating and monitoring LLM systems, including cost, latency, and reliability tradeoffs.
- Experience working in a regulated enterprise with security, governance, and access control requirements.
- Cloud experience with Azure or GCP/Vertex AI.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred experience with agent development and orchestration using LangGraph, CrewAI, or Claude Agent SDK; MCP design; agent-to-agent patterns; RBAC and agent identity; UiPath or Power Platform; insurance or financial services; Git, CI/CD pipelines, Jira, or Azure DevOps.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, systems thinking, technical communication, ownership, adaptability, and collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary plus performance-based bonus.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus life and disability plans.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Paid time off, paid parental leave, and company holidays.
- Hybrid work arrangement based out of the Chicago office.
- Professional development, structured training, licensing support, certification reimbursement, and ongoing development opportunities.
- Wellbeing program, collaborative culture, and opportunities to shape HUB’s enterprise AI platform.
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About HUB International
HUB International is a global insurance brokerage that sells commercial and personal insurance, risk management, employee benefits, retirement, and wealth advisory services to businesses and individuals. It operates through offices across North America and generates revenue primarily from brokerage commissions and fees. Headquartered in Chicago, it is privately held and backed by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, with origins dating to the late 1990s through the merger of regional brokerages.