Sr. AI Engineer - Virtual

Alight Solutions

2d • Remote

About The Position

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.” Our Values: Champion People – be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs. Grow with purpose – Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives. Be Alight – act with integrity, be real and empower others. It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation. With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work. Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight. Learn more at careers.alight.com. As a senior AI/ML engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying machine learning models and AI applications that solve complex business problems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of overall IT or software engineering experience, including at least 2 years of recent experience working with AI or ML solutions
• Proven proficiency in Python
• Experience with AWS services (e.g., Lambda, SageMaker, Glue, S3)
• Hands‑on experience with OpenSearch and/or Elasticsearch
• Familiarity with vector databases and vector search techniques (embeddings, similarity search)

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AI‑powered search, summarization, and chat applications for our internal AI‑powered search and chat platform
• Hands‑on experience building or integrating agentic AI systems, such as multi‑step reasoning, tool‑calling, or autonomous workflows
• Implement information‑retrieval solutions, including vector‑based search, relevance ranking, and retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG)
• Develop production‑ready AI applications in Python, integrating with AWS services
• Build and tune OpenSearch / Elasticsearch indexes to support semantic and keyword search use cases
• Evaluate, tune, and refine AI models and system performance through experimentation
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions

Benefits

• We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it’s important our benefits care for the whole person.
• Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training as well as several voluntary benefit options.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed