AI Engineer
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Job Location:
University Park, IL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS
The Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) is seeking qualified individuals to fill a part-time position as an AI Engineer. This position will lead the transition of AI capabilities from proof of concept to production a hands-on role accountable for end-to-end deliveryarchitecture build integration and compliance.
Responsibilities-
- Own end-to-end delivery (POC production):plan build secure deploy document train.
- Design and implementthe cloud architecture for an Azure/OpenAIplatform (LLM orchestration data pipelines API/middleware observability).
- Build and optimizedata enrichment workflows (ingestion transformation RAG vector/graph stores metadata pipelines).
- Deliver LLM-powered assistantsand implement secure tool-callingintegrations with university systems.
- Producearchitecture diagrams runbooks technical documentation and user training materials.
- Ensure alignmentwith security privacy and data governance (e.g. FERPA/GDPR; institutional IT policies).
- Collaboratewith OTT leadership IT/InfoSec data stewards and external stakeholders to define milestones and success metrics drive knowledge transfer and maintainability.
Qualifications-
- Bachelors degree in computer science Information Systems or a related field or equivalent work experience.
- 8 yearsof professional experience in solutions engineering cloud architecture or AI/ML delivery at enterprise scale.
- Demonstrated track record taking systems from prototype to productionwith clear documentation and training.
- Ability to build and tune data ingestion and enrichment pipelines (RAG vector/graph) that measurably improve retrieval quality and answer accuracy.
- Demonstrated success delivering secure tool-calling integrations with enterprise systems that eliminate manual steps and accelerate key workflows.
- Proficiency in Pythonand JavaScript; experience with frameworks such as Flask/FastAPI/Chainlit.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azureservices deployments (e.g. Azure OpenAI AI Search Functions storage identity) and LLM integration patterns.
Preferred Qualifications-
- Experience in higher educationor research environments; familiarity with academic IT governance and data stewardship.
- Experience with Neo4j/graph PySpark/Pandas and visualization frameworks.
- Background in automation modular architecture and performance/scale tuning.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to present complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders.
BACKGROUND CHECKS/CLEARANCES
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