Senior AI Engineer

Alight Solutions

AI Engineer responsible for developing AI tools and optimizing employee experiences at Alight. Collaborating with teams to drive business outcomes and deploying machine learning models.

Posted 7/27/2026full-timeRemote • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $120,000 - $160,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSKerasPySparkPythonPyTorchSparkTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop and deploy AI-powered features and tools that optimize employee experiences and drive business outcomes.
design, develop, and deploy machine learning models and AI applications that solve complex business problems.
design and develop search and chat applications that utilize agentic AI.
design and develop AI pathed paths for the Alight engineering organization.
experiment to evaluate application performance, including designing experiments to evaluate the performance of machine learning models, and then analyze and interpret the results to improve model performance.
stay up to date with new tools and technologies and evaluating their potential impact on the business.
work with stakeholders to develop and tune algorithms to address business needs.
effectively communicate ideas in non-technical terms to help educate business partners.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree with preferred concentrations in Computer Science, Data Science, Math, Actuarial Science, Engineering, or related field.
Experience writing and working in Python or Spark (ScalaSpark or PySpark) and with popular machine learning libraries such as TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch.
Experience with data preparation and data engineering tasks such as data cleaning, feature engineering, and data transformation.
Knowledge of deep learning architectures and techniques, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and reinforcement learning.
Familiarity with AWS data and data science tools including SageMaker, Glue, Lambdas, etc.
Experience in Agile and DevOps development process.
Must be able to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
Manage services provided to the federal government or federal government contractor and therefore requires US Citizenship.

Benefits

Comp & perks

health, dental and vision coverages starting Day One.
wellbeing programs.
retirement plans with contribution matching.
generous time off.
parental leave.
continuing education.
career growth opportunities.
flexible working arrangements.