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We power progress and protect ambition: for the clients who count on us, and equally for the people who make that possible every day.\nWe’re creative thinkers and determined doers, guided by values that show up in how we work together: with empathy, adaptability, accountability and a genuine commitment to one another’s success. We foster bold ideas, celebrate curiosity and share what we know. Because when people grow, the work they do grows with them.\nOur purpose is deeply human: to help people navigate the world on their terms, at their speed, toward their future. We hold that same commitment to the people building careers here.\nWhether you’re starting out or leveling up, you’ll find the resources to evolve, the support to take on more and a team ready to back you at every stage.\nYour ambition has a home here.\nAbout Us\nAt HUB International, we are a team of entrepreneurs. We believe in protecting and supporting the aspirations of individuals, families, and businesses. We help our clients evaluate their risks and develop solutions tailored to their needs. We believe in empowering our employees to learn, grow, and make a difference. Our structure enables our teams to maintain their own unique, regional culture while leveraging support and resources from our corporate centers of excellence.\nHUB is a global insurance and employee benefits broker, providing a boundaryless array of business insurance, employee benefits, risk services, personal insurance, retirement, and private wealth management products and services. With over $5 billion in revenue and almost 20,000 employees in 600 offices throughout North America, HUB has grown substantially, in part due to our industry leading success in mergers and acquisitions.\nPosition Overview\nHUB is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to serve as the senior technical individual contributor for the AI Engineering function within our centralized technology organization, part of HUB’s AI & Automation organization. This is the most senior hands-on engineering seat in the function. The role builds the hardest work, sets the technical standards the rest of the team builds to, and owns the enterprise standards and governance for HUB’s skills, plug-ins, and MCP connections wherever they are used across HUB.\nThis is an individual contributor role. It carries no direct reports. It does carry technical authority, and the person in it is expected to lead through standards, architecture, code review, and mentoring rather than through reporting lines. A significant portion of that influence extends to engineers outside the function, including builds executed by other engineering teams to the standard this role sets.\nThe role builds on the Claude AI platform: creating reusable skills and plug-ins, composing them into governed AI applications, standing up retrieval over governed enterprise data, and professionalizing experimental prototypes into governed, tested, enterprise-ready applications. HUB runs Claude as its primary model today and the stack is expected to evolve toward agentic systems. Where a build requires deep engineering, such as net-new backend, new infrastructure, or complex integration, Enterprise Engineering executes it to the standard this role sets and returns it to the catalog to be governed and published. This role does not build or host foundational models and does not perform core machine learning or model training.\nHow this differs from the AI Engineer role. AI Engineers build and ship against an established standard. This role establishes that standard, owns the technical decisions behind it, resolves the problems the team cannot, and is accountable for the reliability and governance of the function’s output as a whole.\nKey Responsibilities\nBuild the Hardest Work\nBuild reusable skills, package them as plug-ins, and compose them into governed AI applications used across HUB business lines\nConfigure and tune foundational models for HUB use cases, including system and prompt design\nBuild retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector store, and multi-step workflow implementations over governed enterprise data\nTake business-built AI prototypes and productionize them into reliable, governed applications\nOwn the engineering decisions behind cost, latency, and reliability tradeoffs across the AI estate\nSet the Technical Standard\nDefine and document the engineering standards the function builds to, covering architecture patterns, testing, logging, documentation, and release discipline\nReview architecture and code across the team, and raise the quality of what ships through that review\nMentor AI Engineers and contract engineers, deliberately transferring knowledge so the function does not depend on any one person\nSet and uphold the enterprise standards and governance for skills, plug-ins, and MCP wherever they are used across HUB, on any surface, including builds executed by other engineering teams\nPartner with Enterprise Engineering on deep builds, defining the standard those builds must meet before they return to the catalog\nOwn the AI Asset Platform\nOwn the technical operation of the skill and plug-in marketplace and the MCP catalog: intake, publish, version, maintain, and deprecate\nApply access control, least-privilege, and audit to AI assets, partnering with Security, Privacy, and Cloud on identity and credentials\nEnsure every AI asset published to the enterprise has a defined owner, documented behavior, and a support path\nQuality, Evaluation, and Governance\nStand up and own evaluation harnesses, golden-set testing, guardrails, monitoring, and logging so AI output is consistent and reliable at enterprise scale\nEstablish acceptance criteria and regression gating so a change that fixes one case does not silently break others\nProvide production support for the skills, plug-ins, and applications the function releases, including incident response for non-deterministic systems\nTranslate governance, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements into engineering controls and audit-ready evidence\nCollaboration and Delivery\nPartner with business stakeholders and the product function to turn prototyped ideas into production-ready, governed capabilities\nPartner with Enterprise Engineering, Data and Analytics, Cloud, and Security to ship reliably and route deep builds appropriately\nRepresent AI Engineering in technical and governance forums\nWork within Agile ceremonies and document skills, applications, and technical decisions for handoff, audit, and maintenance\nRequired Qualifications\n7+ years of software or automation engineering, including 3+ years building and shipping applications backed by large language models to production\nDirect, recent, hands-on experience building and publishing Claude skills or plug-ins. Broad experience with large language models or frameworks, without shipped skills and plug-ins, is not sufficient.\nDemonstrated technical leadership as an individual contributor: setting standards other engineers followed, reviewing others’ architecture and code, and mentoring engineers without managing them\nStrong Python, REST APIs, and enterprise integration, with sound fundamentals in testing, version control, and monitoring\nHands-on experience with foundational models: system and prompt design, skill and tool building, function and tool calling\nRetrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, and vector stores, including chunking and reranking\nEvaluation and monitoring for systems backed by large language models, with a working feel for cost, latency, and reliability tradeoffs\nExperience operating inside a regulated enterprise, with security, governance, and access control as part of normal delivery\nCloud experience (Azure or GCP / Vertex AI)\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience\nPreferred Qualifications\nAgent development and orchestration (LangGraph, CrewAI, Claude Agent SDK), the growth path for this role\nModel Context Protocol design, MCP server governance, and agent-to-agent patterns\nIdentity and access concepts: RBAC, non-human or agent identity, and least privilege\nWorking fluency in an AI governance framework such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ISO/IEC 42001, or the NAIC model bulletin on insurer use of AI systems\nExperience as the senior technical voice in a new or maturing capability, including standing up standards where none existed\nUiPath or Microsoft Power Platform exposure, given the automation estate this function supports\nInsurance or financial services industry experience, and familiarity with audit and control expectations in a pre-IPO or public company environment\nFamiliarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software engineering practices, and tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps\nKey Competencies\nGenuine software engineering depth rather than prompt-only development\nInfluence without authority. This role sets standards for engineers who do not report to it, including engineers on other teams.\nSystems thinking, designing for consistency, resilience, and enterprise scale\nWillingness to do the unglamorous work: documentation, evaluation harnesses, access reviews, and production support\nCoaching instinct, with evidence of raising the level of engineers around them\nClear technical communication with engineers, business stakeholders, and executive audiences\nAccountability and ownership for quality, stability, governance, and delivery\nCuriosity and adaptability as the AI stack evolves toward agents\nWhat We Offer You\nAt HUB International, we’re invested in your success, both inside and outside of work. Our benefits include:\nCompetitive base salary plus performance-based bonus\nComprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage\n401(k) with company match\nPaid time off and company holidays\nHybrid work arrangement based out of our Chicago office\nProfessional development and certification reimbursement\nOpportunity to set the technical direction for HUB’s enterprise AI engineering function and its asset platform, across a modern stack spanning Claude, retrieval, evaluation, and agentic tooling\nJOIN OUR TEAM\nDo you believe in the power of innovation, collaboration, and transformation? Do you thrive in a supportive and client focused work environment? Are you looking for an opportunity to help build and drive change in a rapidly growing and evolving organization? When you join HUB International, you will be part of a community of learners and doers focused on our Core Values: entrepreneurship, teamwork, integrity, accountability, and service.\nThe expected salary range for this position is $ 130,000 to $190,000 and will be impacted by factors such as the successful candidate’s skills, experience and working location, as well as the specific position’s business line, scope and level. HUB International is proud to offer comprehensive benefit and total compensation packages which could include health/dental/vision/life/disability insurance, FSA, HAS and 401(k) accounts, paid-time-off benefits such as vacation, sick, personal, floating holidays and company holidays. In addition, eligible annual bonuses, equity and commissions may be available for some positions.\nWhat we offer you\nWe invest in your growth. HUB offers structured training, licensing support,and ongoing development opportunities designed to accelerate your career. 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