Software Development Engineer

North Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 8 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance peoples lives.

Position: Software Development Engineer
Location: North Chicago IL 60064
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description:

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to build and scale an AI-powered document parsing platform that extracts structured data from complex PDFs (pharmaceutical batch records certificates regulatory documents) using OCR LLMs and RAG.
You will work across the full stack - backend AI pipelines frontend chat interface and cloud infrastructure.

Roles & Responsibilities

Design and develop production-grade RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines for domain-specific document querying with hybrid search reranking and multi-agent answer synthesis
Build and optimize document processing pipelines using AWS Textract for OCR extraction from tables handwritten content and structured forms
Integrate and orchestrate multiple LLM models (Claude Gemini) for intent classification data extraction validation and conversational AI
Develop and maintain the FastAPI backend - REST APIs streaming endpoints (SSE) authentication and background task processing
Build responsive frontend features using React and TypeScript - chat interface PDF viewer with highlights real-time progress tracking
Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS - EC2 deployment S3 storage RDS (PostgreSQL) and IAM configuration
Work with vector databases (Weaviate) and graph databases (Neo4j) for semantic search and structural document querying
Implement chunking strategies embedding generation cross-encoder reranking and semantic caching for accurate document retrieval
Deploy and monitor AI models and services in production - model fallback chains retry mechanisms error handling
Write clean maintainable code with proper logging error handling and documentation

Required Skills

Python (FastAPI async programming pandas)
TypeScript / React ()
RAG systems - vector search embeddings chunking reranking (production-grade)
LLM integration - prompt engineering structured output multi-model orchestration
AWS - EC2 S3 Textract RDS
PostgreSQL
REST API design with streaming (SSE)
Git basic CI/CD Linux server management

Good to Have

Weaviate Neo4j or similar vector/graph databases
Gemini Vision or GPT-4V for document image analysis
LangChain / LangGraph
Docker nginx
Pharmaceutical/regulated document experience

Experience

3 6 years

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance pe...