Senior AI Engineer, Studio

Join an AI-focused venture studio as a senior engineer building products from validated concepts through launch and product-market fit. You will own end-to-end AI systems that reach real users while helping create reusable engineering patterns for future ventures.

• Build production agentic AI systems including agents retrieval orchestration and integrations with external tools.
• Take early products from scoping to launch focusing on the smallest version that demonstrates value before hardening it for production.
• Operate and improve systems after launch responding to real-world failures and user needs.
• Develop reusable components evaluation practices and engineering patterns across different venture contexts.
• Partner with product strategists customers and design partners to shape product direction and delivery.

• Three to seven years of experience building and operating end-to-end AI systems in production.
• Experience with Python LLMs agentic AI frameworks retrieval systems model serving evaluation and regression suites CI/CD and observability.
• Evidence of owning a 0-to-1 product or tool that shipped to users such as a startup side project or internal product.
• Product or commercial ownership in addition to research or model-building experience with a track record of presenting to non-technical stakeholders.
• Engineering experience at a leading quantitative finance firm major technology company or AI-native startup alongside entrepreneurial or early-stage product work.
• A STEM degree and strong fundamentals in computer science mathematics physics or engineering.

Base salary: $190000 to $250000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

On-site in Chicago Illinois United States.