Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer
First seen by Alion on Oct 15, 2026.
ABOUT THE ROLE :
We are hiring two Senior AI Engineers to build AI applications for enterprise use connecting large language models to business data and making the results accurate, secure and reliable in production.
You will own the design as well as the build: decide how the solution works, then build it using AI coding tools and verify everything that ships. This is applied engineering, not research.
WHAT YOU WILL DO :
- Design the architecture - integration, data flow, access control and failure handling.
- Build RAG pipelines so the system answers from approved data, not guesswork.
- Integrate LLM APIs and enterprise systems, and build the application layer around them.
- Use AI coding assistants to build faster, and review everything they produce.
- Deploy to cloud, test for accuracy, and own it in production - security, latency and cost.
MUST HAVE :
- 6 - 10 years in software development, including 2+ years building AI/LLM applications used in production.
- Strong Python.
- Hands-on RAG experience: embeddings, semantic search and a vector database (Pinecone, Chroma, FAISS, Weaviate, Milvus or pgvector).
- Production use of LLM APIs - Claude, OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI or OCI Generative AI.
- Proven solution design: you have architected an enterprise integration and can defend it on security, cost and failure handling.
- REST API integration, authentication and authorisation, and safe handling of sensitive data.
- Cloud deployment on AWS, Azure, OCI or GCP, with Docker and CI/CD.
- Daily use of AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor), and a clear view of where they fail.
NICE TO HAVE :
- AI agents, tool calling or Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- LangChain or LlamaIndex.
- Single sign-on - Entra ID, SAML or OIDC.
- Insurance, banking or financial services experience.
Skills
Artificial Intelligence, Python, Generative AI, RAG, LLM, Cloud, VectorDB, OpenAI, Solution Design