{"id":1228840,"url":"https://alion.io/job/helpware-expert-ai-engineer","title":"Expert AI Engineer","company":{"id":454250,"name":"Helpware","domain":"helpware.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/helpware-2","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Breezy","truth_index":null},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"unspecified","remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":89000,"max_usd":196000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_seniority_cell","sample_n":1507},"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agentic Workflows","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":false},{"name":"Multi-Agent Systems","optional":false},{"name":"Node JS","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"Datadog","optional":true},{"name":"Docker","optional":true},{"name":"FinOps","optional":true},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"LangChain","optional":true},{"name":"LlamaIndex","optional":true},{"name":"Terraform","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-25T12:19:12Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-25","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T21:02:31Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"We are looking for an experienced Expert AI Engineer to join an international technology project and help build and scale an internal AI platform used by both engineering and non-technical teams.\nThis is a hands-on role for an engineer who has already built and delivered production-grade AI tools, AI agents, integrations, and automation solutions. You will work on AI infrastructure, agentic workflows, MCP integrations, security, governance, and organization-wide AI enablement.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDesign, build, deploy, and maintain internal AI platforms and AI-powered tools.\n\nDevelop custom AI skills, MCP connectors, integrations, and agentic workflows.\n\nBuild scalable infrastructure for hosting AI tools, model integrations, and automated execution pipelines.\n\nDesign and implement multi-agent workflows and orchestration pipelines for complex engineering and business processes.\n\nEnsure secure AI implementation, including:\ncredential and secrets management;\n\nleast-privilege access;\n\nprompt injection protection;\n\nprevention of sensitive data leakage.\n\nIntegrate AI solutions with existing engineering and business systems.\n\nEstablish standards and best practices for AI governance, security, quality, and reliability.\n\nOptimize LLM usage and infrastructure costs using techniques such as model routing, semantic caching, and usage controls.\n\nSupport engineering teams in adopting AI tools and integrating them into daily development workflows.\n\nWork with cross-functional stakeholders to identify opportunities where AI can improve productivity and delivery.\n\nDefine metrics to evaluate the impact of AI solutions on engineering efficiency and product delivery.\n\nThe original role specifically focuses on company-wide AI tooling rather than work with one particular framework or programming language.\nRequirements\n10+ years of professional software development experience.\n\nStrong background in backend engineering, software architecture, and system design.\n\nStrong hands-on experience building and shipping production AI solutions.\n\nPractical experience with:\nAI agents and agentic workflows;\n\nMCP / Model Context Protocol integrations;\n\ncustom AI tools or skills;\n\nLLM-based applications and integrations.\n\nStrong backend development experience with at least one modern language such as:\nPython;\n\nTypeScript / Node.js;\n\nGo;\n\nJava;\n\nor another comparable backend technology.\n\nExperience designing and managing cloud infrastructure using AWS, GCP, or Azure.\n\nStrong understanding of AI security, including credential management, access controls, prompt injection risks, and sensitive data protection.\n\nExperience supporting or leading AI adoption within engineering teams.\n\nAbility to translate technical AI concepts into practical solutions aligned with business needs.\n\nExcellent communication and leadership skills.\n\nEnglish: C2 / Native-level proficiency.\n\nThese requirements follow the source profile, including the 10+ years of engineering background, language-agnostic backend requirement, production MCP/agentic tooling, cloud infrastructure, AI security, and C2/native English.\nNice to Have\nExperience with AI FinOps / LLM cost optimization, including semantic caching, rate limiting, and cost-aware model routing.\n\nKnowledge of MCP standards and specifications.\n\nExperience with frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex.\n\nExperience with:\nDocker;\n\nTerraform / Infrastructure as Code;\n\nCI/CD;\n\nobservability and monitoring tools such as Datadog or ELK.\n\nAbout the Project\nYou will join an international technology environment focused on building secure digital solutions used at scale. The role has a strong emphasis on security, AI enablement, automation, and internal developer productivity.\nYou will have the opportunity to influence how AI is adopted across the organization and build tools that are used not only by software engineers but also by other teams across the business. The underlying project operates across Europe and the US and serves millions of users and thousands of enterprise customers.\nWorking Environment\nInternational team and global product environment.\n\nOpportunity to work on large-scale, production AI systems.\n\nSignificant technical ownership and influence over AI architecture and standards.\n\nCollaboration with experienced engineering and product teams.\n\nRemote-friendly international environment.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4349,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Proficiency (C2)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T14:16:39Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":18,"reasons":["conf:4","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-29T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/helpware-expert-ai-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/helpware-expert-ai-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-30T00:36:52Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":487,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4513,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}}