Alight

AI Engineer- Virtual

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Deerfield, IL, USAEntry Level / Mid Level / Senior / Staff+

Base Salary

$120k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build agent patterns, retrieval systems, guardrails, and multi-agent orchestration for production AI assistants.
  • Develop an MCP server, reusable LangGraph patterns, SDK and CLI tooling, reference implementations, and documentation.
  • Create agent evaluation platforms using DeepEval and Ragas with CI/CD quality gates and automated testing.
  • Build document ingestion and retrieval pipelines involving chunking, embeddings, vector search, reranking, and citations.
  • Automate AI-agent deployment on AWS using ECS, Fargate, and Agent Core.
  • Implement devcontainers, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, dashboards, LLM cost and token tracking, governance checks, semantic caching, rate limiting, and graceful degradation.

Requirements

  • Proficiency in Python 3.10 or later.
  • Working knowledge of AWS core services, including IAM, ECS/Fargate, and networking.
  • Experience with software engineering practices including Git/GitHub, code review, testing, documentation, and clean code.
  • Security awareness related to sensitive data, secrets, permissions, and data protection.
  • Expertise in at least one area: AI agent development, data and retrieval engineering, quality and evaluation, platform and infrastructure, observability and operations, or developer experience.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision coverage starting Day One.
  • Wellbeing programs, retirement plans with contribution matching, generous time off, parental leave, continuing education, and career growth opportunities.
  • Flexible working arrangements and a virtual/remote work setup, with occasional travel to a physical office potentially required.
  • Virtual interviews are conducted by video and may require camera-on participation.
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About Alight

10,000+ employees

Alight provides cloud-based benefits administration and human capital solutions to large employers, combining its Alight Worklife platform with outsourced services for health, wealth, leave, and wellbeing programs. It earns revenue through SaaS subscriptions and long-term managed services and consulting. Headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois, Alight was carved out of Aon’s benefits outsourcing business by Blackstone in 2017 and is now publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: ALIT).

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