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Advancing new ideas every day to build even stronger clients, individuals and communities. We’re helping our clients find new ways to drive growth, enhance business performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. And, we’re developing strategies and implementing solutions that enable the transformative change they need to own their future.\nAs a member of the Huron corporate team, you’ll help to evolve our business model to stay ahead of market forces, industry trends and client needs. Our accounting, finance, human resources, IT, legal, marketing and facilities management professionals work collaboratively to support Huron’s collective strategies and enable real transformation to produce sustainable business results.\nJoin our team and create your future.\nThe AI Infrastructure Engineer will build, integrate, and operate production platform capabilities that support Huron's governed use of AI. Working in close partnership with the AI Infrastructure Architect across cloud infrastructure, model access, identity, observability, automation, agent execution, and enterprise service integration, this role will turn approved reference architectures and platform requirements into secure, reusable, and supportable solutions. The focus is infrastructure and platform engineering rather than application development, though the role includes building application-adjacent components such as mediation services, integration scaffolding, and reference implementations.Key Responsibilities\nWork with the AI Infrastructure Architect to build and operate approved model-access patterns for governed AI usage, including Amazon Bedrock where applicable.\nBuild infrastructure as code, deployment automation, CI/CD templates, and reusable platform components from approved reference architectures.\nImplement usage telemetry, token reporting, model usage reporting, user attribution, project attribution, quotas, and cost-management data pipelines.\nDeploy and operate approved sandbox patterns for coding agents and tool-using agents.\nBuild governed tool/service mediation patterns for AI applications and agents, including MCP or equivalent approaches, following approved designs.\nImplement logging, monitoring, alerting, audit evidence capture, and operational reporting for onboarded workloads.\nBuild onboarding templates and reference implementations that Client-facing AI Delivery, Enterprise IT, Global Products, analytics, consulting, engineering, and internal operations teams can reuse.\nPartner with the AI Capability Center under the Chief AI Officer to build and deliver the infrastructure and platform components behind solutions for Huron's go-to-market teams.\nUse AI tools hands-on to accelerate infrastructure coding, automation, debugging, test creation, documentation, and runbook development.\nHelp define and maintain runbooks, support models, incident paths, and operational handoffs.\nRequired Qualifications\n3+ years of experience building and operating production cloud or platform infrastructure, including hands-on experience with AWS, infrastructure as code, automation, or production operations.\nSolid infrastructure as code experience.\nExperience with cloud networking, IAM, secrets management, logging, monitoring, deployment automation, and operational support.\nSoftware engineering or scripting skills for automation and platform tooling.\nDemonstrated ability to use AI tools as a practical system-building accelerator for infrastructure automation, code generation, debugging, testing, or documentation.\nFamiliarity with APIs, event-driven systems, service integration, and secure deployment patterns.\nAbility to take defined patterns and requirements, work through ambiguity with guidance from senior engineers and architects, and deliver working systems.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with Amazon Bedrock or other managed AI/model platforms.\nExperience with token/cost telemetry, usage attribution, chargeback, showback, or FinOps data pipelines.\nExperience with durable agentic AI orchestration platforms for infrastructure automation, agent workflows, or operational processes.\nExperience with containerized or sandboxed execution environments.\nExperience with agent tools, MCP, model gateways, API gateways, or secure service broker patterns.\nExperience supporting regulated, client-confidential, PHI, PII, or sensitive workloads.\nFlexible living locations across the US. Ability to travel as needed.\nThe estimated base salary for this job is $120,000 - $165,000. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $138,000 - $189,000. 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