AI Design Development Engineer (Claude)

Onsite: Chicago, IL or Dallas, TX Long-Term ContractW2/1099 Only - No C2C or 3rd Party Candidate Looking for a hands-on AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy AI-powered alert triage and investigation solutions using Claude AI and Splunk. Must-Have Requirements:3+ years building AI/LLM applications and agent-based workflows Strong experience with Claude API, Agent SDK, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) Python development with async/queue-based architectures Splunk integration and tool orchestration experience Prompt engineering and structured AI outputs (verdicts, confidence scores, citations) Cloud deployment, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and Secrets Management Experience with evaluation frameworks, shadow testing, and AI observability