Job Title: Senior Staff Software Engineer
Location: North Chicago area, remote
Assignment Duration: 6 months
 
Position Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and scale next-generation AI platforms and intelligent systems. The ideal candidate will possess strong software engineering fundamentals, deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, machine learning platforms, and operational excellence. This role involves developing production-grade AI applications, shared services, internal platforms, and foundational infrastructure that support large-scale AI workloads across enterprise environments.
 
Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable software systems using C/C++, Python, Go, Rust, Node.js, and other modern programming languages.
• Build advanced AI solutions including Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, agentic AI systems, vector databases, and multi-agent architectures.
• Research, design, and optimize high-performance AI workloads for CPU, GPU, and heterogeneous computing environments.
• Develop internal platforms, SDKs, shared services, and infrastructure components that accelerate engineering productivity.
• Create rapid prototypes and production-ready solutions while maintaining high standards of software quality and maintainability.
• Design and implement inference serving platforms for deep learning and generative AI applications.
• Establish engineering best practices for testing, debugging, CI/CD, automated deployments, monitoring, observability, incident management, and operational excellence.
• Drive architecture reviews, technical strategy, and platform modernization initiatives.
• Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, platform engineers, security teams, and product stakeholders to deliver enterprise-scale AI solutions.
• Manage Kubernetes-based environments including cluster lifecycle management, version upgrades, service mesh administration, GitOps workflows, and Argo-based deployments.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms using SSO, OAuth2, OIDC, SCIM, and enterprise identity governance frameworks.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 60.00/hr.