Seeking an entrepreneurial AI Engineer to join a high-performing team dedicated to solving commercially impactful problems through technical excellence. In this role, you won't just build models; you will own the entire lifecycle of AI products-from framing business challenges to optimizing low-level inference stacks.

 
 
location: Champaign, Illinois
job type: Permanent
salary: $145,000 - 175,000 per year
work hours: 9am to 6pm
education: Bachelors
 
responsibilities:
End-to-End Ownership: Take full accountability for technical products, from initial business problem framing to final production deployment.

ML Systems Design: Design and deliver industry-leading ML models and systems that meet rigorous operational standards and challenging SLAs.

Strategic Innovation: Actively challenge current processes and stay at the forefront of AI trends to ensure our technology remains market-leading.

Business Integration: Engage directly with business functions to translate complex commercial needs into elegant AI solutions.

Hybrid Impact: Balance deep technical development (80%) with direct user support and feedback loops (20%) to ensure products meet real-world needs.

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qualifications:
LLM Specialization: Direct experience deploying LLMs in production. You should be an expert in prompt design, agentic workflows, evaluation harnesses, and RAG/retrieval pipelines.

Inference Optimization: Deep understanding of the LLM stack, including KV Caching, Speculative Decoding, Parallel Decoding, and emerging test-time compute strategies.

Software Engineering: Expert-level Python skills are required. Proficiency in at least one lower-level or enterprise language (C++, Java, or .NET) is highly preferred.

Infrastructure & Data: Proven experience with SQL databases and cloud architecture (Azure or AWS).

Theoretical Foundation: A "first-principles" understanding of machine learning fundamentals paired with the practical "scars" of building real-world systems.

 
skills:
Java (Programming Language),.NET Framework,C Sharp (Programming Language),Knowledge of Finance,Knowledge of Mathematics,Information Technology