AI Foundry Engineer; Tantus

Position Summary

Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary is seeking a highly skilled AI Foundry Engineer to support our government client.

• Understand and translate business requirements and problem statements into a set of prompts that direct AI foundry platforms and ecosystems to generate full stack, AI, and agent-based systems.
• Assess the generated systems code to discover design gaps and inefficiencies, standard and coding style issues; identify and implement fixes in the design and code as necessary.
• Test, verify, and deploy the end‑to‑end system/application.

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a government‑issued Public Trust.
• 20+ years of overall software, distributed systems, and cloud‑native system development experience.
• Experience with coding standards (Google JavaScript/JSON style guide, PEP 8 style guide).
• Knowledge of design patterns (GOF, others) and architecture frameworks.
• 2–3+ years of developing and integrating AI, Generative AI, and agentic AI algorithms, models, frameworks, and prompt engineering.
• Familiarity with emerging standards for AI agent ecosystems.
• SME/Power user for at least one Generative AI system (Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, CoPilot).
• Prompt engineering skills—translating business/user requirements into prompts.
• 5–7+ years of in‑depth, hands‑on experience with one or more web application frameworks and programming languages.
• Proficiency with Angular, React, Python, Node.js, Rust.
• Minimum of 5 years of in‑depth, hands‑on experience with one or more cloud tech stacks, including virtual network architecture, design, implementation, and management.
• Experience with AWS / Google (preferred) or Azure / Oracle.
• Minimum one‑year experience with one or more QA frameworks and test automation platforms.
• Experience testing AI and LLMs using tools to evaluate accuracy, bias, and reliability.
• Hands‑on experience with tools such as Braintrust and Galileo.

Salary range: $165,000 – $195,000. Final offer may vary based on experience and geographic location.

• Servant Leader:
  Hyper‑focused on engaging employees, fostering development, and building a positive culture.
• Solutions Focused:
  Sees opportunities in every business problem and can develop, articulate, and implement solutions.
• Collaboration:
  
  Builds relationships across all levels of the organization and all business units.
• Instills Trust:
  Acts with integrity, follows through on commitments, and is consistently credible.
• Impact & Influence Thinking:
  Gains support for ideas and gets others to act to advance initiatives.

• Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy—activated on the first day, available for personal time, mental/physical health, vacation, sick leave, etc.
• Paid holidays throughout the year and potential time off during the last week of the calendar year if client/project work permits.
• Comprehensive wellness program with activities tracked through a wellness provider for rewards.
• Flexible work arrangements.
• Health, dental, vision, life, and accident/death/disability insurance options.
• HSA employer contribution.
• 11 paid holidays annually.
• Paid Parental Bonding Leave covering birth, adoption, and foster children.
• 401(k) with employer contributions.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Generous employee referral bonus program.
• Client referral bonus program.
• Pet insurance.
• FORCE community volunteer program—up to four paid hours annually for local volunteer work.

Tantus, a Sikich Subsidiary is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V.