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The Role:

Launch is actively seeking a visionary Solutions Architect / Principal Software Engineering Lead (AI) to design and deliver modern engineering and applied AI solutions across client engagements. This role blends deep hands‑on engineering, architectural leadership, AI system design, and client advisory. You will operate across system design, production‑grade engineering, multi‑agent architectures, cloud platform strategy, and the development of Launch’s AI practice.

Responsibilities Include:

Architecture & Technical Strategy

• Define the technical direction for client engagements end-to-end: discovery, design, build, and production hardening.
• Assess client technology ecosystems and identify high-impact opportunities for AI/ML integration.
• Lead architecture reviews, design sessions, and technology selection across cross-functional stakeholder groups.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete engineering plans with clear scope, milestones, and risk callouts.

AI Engineering & Delivery

• Architect production agentic systems including multi-agent orchestration, agent harnesses, skill/tool composition, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and inter-agent communication protocols (e.g., A2A, MCP).
• Build and govern MCP server ecosystems: design, deploy, and secure Model Context Protocol integrations connecting AI agents to enterprise data sources, internal APIs, and third-party platforms.
• Define agent skill and capability frameworks including reusable skill libraries, prompt engineering standards, and evaluation harnesses for consistent agent behavior across engagements.
• Architect RAG pipelines, fine-tuning workflows, and model lifecycle infrastructure (training, serving, experiment tracking) as foundational components of agentic systems.
• Integrate AI platforms and APIs (Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Vertex AI) into production systems with enterprise-grade reliability, cost governance, and observability.
• Establish AI-native development practices: embed tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot into team workflows with standards for AI-assisted code review, test generation, and documentation.
• Design evaluation and observability infrastructure including LLM eval frameworks, red-teaming, behavioral drift detection, and production monitoring across tool call chains, latency, and failure modes.
• Apply responsible AI governance: define guardrails, access controls, and audit patterns for agentic workflows in enterprise environments including scope containment and escalation paths.

Hands-On Engineering

• Write production code and lead by example — this role requires someone who is still close to the code.
• Design cloud-native architectures across multiple hyperscalers (AWS and Azure primarily) microservices, event-driven systems, serverless, and containerized workloads.
• Define and implement infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or Bicep.
• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Establish observability and reliability practices using tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or Azure Monitor.
• Drive security-by-design across the delivery lifecycle including IAM, network architecture, secrets management, and compliance automation.

Leadership & Client Advisory

• Lead engineering teams ranging from small squads to 10+ person delivery teams, scaling leadership approach to the needs of each engagement.
• Mentor and develop engineers at all levels through code reviews, pairing, and design coaching.
• Operate as a trusted advisor to client technical leadership and executive stakeholders. Communicate trade-offs clearly and build confidence.
• Influence without direct authority — driving alignment across cross-functional teams through technical credibility and stakeholder management.
• Lead discovery and requirements elicitation, surfacing the underlying business need beyond the stated request.
• Produce clear written artifacts: technical proposals, architecture decision records, SOWs, and executive-level status communication.
• Grow client relationships and identify follow-on opportunities through proposal contributions and delivery-driven account expansion.
• Contribute to Launch's growth — practice development, thought leadership, and hiring.

Qualifications:

Must-Haves:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years in software engineering with demonstrated experience in architecture and technical leadership roles.
• 3+ years hands-on with AI/ML in production. Broad fluency across generative AI (LLMs, RAG, fine-tuning, agents), MLOps (model serving, pipelines, experiment tracking), and AI-integrated product development.
• Consulting or client-facing delivery experience with a proven ability to integrate into client organizations and establish credibility with technical and executive stakeholders.
• Full-stack engineering capability across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data layers. Proficiency in multiple modern languages (e.g., Python, TypeScript/Node.js, C#/.NET, Java, or Go) with the ability to move between them as engagements require.
• Multi-hyperscaler depth across AWS and Azure, including their respective AI/ML service ecosystems (Bedrock, SageMaker, Azure OpenAI, Azure ML). GCP experience is a plus.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, event-driven architecture, API design, and DevOps/platform engineering.
• Experience leading engineering teams in agile delivery environments.
• Business acumen with the ability to connect architecture decisions to cost, timeline, and organizational impact.
• Executive presence and communication skills effective with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to operate in ambiguous environments and adapt to diverse client cultures.

Strong Differentiators

• Experience contributing to the development of AI engineering practices, reusable frameworks, or internal accelerators within a consulting or enterprise environment.
• Experience advising C-suite or VP-level stakeholders on AI strategy, investment prioritization, and organizational readiness.
• Depth with agentic AI frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI) and emerging standards like MCP (Model Context Protocol).
• Experience with enterprise data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery) in the context of AI/ML workloads.
• Cloud architecture certifications across AWS and Azure (AWS SA Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert).
• Published writing, open-source contributions, or conference speaking that demonstrates thought leadership in AI or software architecture.
• Domain depth in industries such as healthcare, financial services, retail, or public sector.

Compensation & Benefits:

As an employee at Launch, you will grow your skills and experience through a variety of exciting project work (across industries and technologies) with some of the top companies in the world! Our employees receive full benefits—medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, and matched 401k. We also have an uncapped, take-what-you-need PTO policy. The anticipated base wage range for this role is $190,000 to $230,000. Education and experience will be highly considered, and we are happy to discuss your wage expectations in more detail throughout our internal interview process.

Description

The Global Cloud Engineering Leader will be responsible for the overall technical direction for Cloud hosting and automation tools for the company. This role will lead onshore and offshore cloud build and automation resources who are responsible for having a deep understanding of our business strategy, and the creation of a technical capability that enables and accelerates business goals through rapid deployment and scalability of new features and functionalities.

• Lead team's Cloud Engineering and DevOps implementations and practices as it relates to Azure Cloud Environments and support, application deployments, site reliability and disaster recovery

• Understanding the responsibility, requirements, and efforts to ensure appropriate and required Cyber methodologies in how work is performed and compliance for all areas of responsibility

• Driving Cyber and Compliance as a culture as well as a functional requirement

• Translate design decisions, architecture designs to code for continuous deployment and repeatability

• Establish enterprise-wide cloud standards and associated documentation (naming, tagging, build etc..)

• Establish Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) culture and principles to track and measure health, uptime, availability and performance

• Oversite of daily run work, and overall reduction of technical debt

• Responsible for redundancy and resiliency of all cloud environments globally

• Ensures Engineering team leverages the latest DevOps and Cloud automation tools such as ARM Templates, PowerShell, Terraform, Python and Azure DevOps

• Strong dedication to high quality and standards for your team's execution

• Not afraid to jump in with the team to help resolve problems and remove blockers in a timely manner.

• Collaborate with other teams on automation strategy and best practices

• Create and document low-level designs, as built and standards

• Collaborate with Solution architecture, Platform engineering, Cyber and Product teams for delivering requirements as defined

• Work within a project management/agile scrum teams in a leading role as part of a wider team

• Utilizes Agile and DevOps Processes and Principles, Crafts CI/CD pipelines; converting builds to use native Azure build pipelines

• Work with the release management team and engineering teams to enhance skills and practices

• Design and maintain automation processes and ensure that all things that should be automated, are automated responsibly with Security, Governance and compliance validations.

• Work with Leadership to develop effective IT solutions based on business needs, issues and drivers.

• Assist with IT strategies to achieve productivity, stability and resilience.

• Prioritize, plan, scope and manage IT projects.

• Approve/initiate change requests, project proposals and maintain architecture and process documentation

• Ensure team adheres to disaster recovery and compliance testing schedules through the year

• Assist in preparing project budgets and schedules.

• Assist in business reengineering efforts and recommend new technologies to meet business demands.

• Monitor project execution to ensure on-time delivery.

Skills

Strategy, automation, Cloud, azure automation, azure

Top Skills Details

Strategy,automation,Cloud,azure automation,azure

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Person specification

• Team management skills – ability to drive cross-functional teams to project goals and timelines

• Communication skills – help align stakeholders, define dependencies and plan efficiently and communicate release schedules, progress, blockers

• Mentorship – Ability to guide, train and coach resources involved in the release and deployment lifecycle.

• Data skills - use data to get insights, inform decisions and reach business KPIs and product metrics important to the business

• Technical skills – Extensive in Cloud Engineering and the Microsoft Well Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework with very specific understanding of landing zones and foundational buildout, Automation, Architecture, and Development

• Azure DevOps Tool administration and configuration

• Certification – Scrum Product Owner/Product Manager certificates preferred

• Product skills – 10 yrs Mix of Cloud/Dev and Leadership Experience

Tooling

• Azure Cloud

• Azure DevOps

• WIZ Security Scanning

• SonarQube

• Terraform

• Ansible

• GIT

• Log Analytics

• Netskope

Experience – Essential

• Strong communication skills

• Ability to quickly pivot as needed and lead a team through multiple projects and competing priorities

• Proven track record in on time/on spec project delivery

• Strong relationship skills and cultural awareness, the ability to work well with people from different disciplines and cultures.

• Ability to be agile, respond positively to change and contribute with an innovative and global mindset.

Experience – Desirable

• 10+ years Cloud Engineering/App Development/Leadership experience

Experience Level

Expert Level

This is a Contract position based out of Chicago, IL.

The pay range for this position is $80.00 - $100.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a fully remote position.

This position is anticipated to close on Mar 19, 2026.

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at .

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

A leading organization in its sector is confidentially seeking a talented and experienced Co-Director of End User Computing to join its team for a 6-month contract-to-hire role in a hybrid capacity in the Chicago area. This pivotal leadership position will share responsibility for overseeing all aspects of end-user support and services, managing a team of managers and their respective teams to ensure seamless IT service delivery across multiple locations. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in managing large-scale IT operations, particularly within the context of mergers and acquisitions, and will be instrumental in driving system integrations and standardizing operational procedures during a period of significant growth and transformation.

• Leadership: Provide strategic direction to the End User Computing team, overseeing managers to foster a culture of excellence and ensure effective end-user support.
• M&A Integration: Lead the integration of IT systems and processes following recent mergers, unifying platforms to create a cohesive IT environment.
• Operational Excellence: Develop and implement standard operating procedures (SOPs) and champion the use of the ITSM model and ServiceNow to optimize service delivery.
• Team Optimization: Regularly review and adjust team structure and roles to align with evolving business needs.
• Data-Driven Strategy: Use data and analytics to inform strategic decisions, measure performance, and present recommendations to leadership.
• Technical Oversight: Maintain a strong understanding of the technical environment, including the EPIC EMR system, and provide expert guidance to the team.

This role is onsite 3-4 days a week.

Overview

The Sr Design Engineer will work in a cross-functional that designs, develops, manufactures, and services tankless water heaters, boilers, and other products. Knowledge of building the entire system as well as individual components is preferred.

Build, assemble, test prototypes, and put together the entire system. Hands-on work and prior exposure to castings, sheet metals, O-rings, water & gas manifolds are necessary. Identify, develop, and manage select suppliers with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Develop, coordinate, and monitor all aspects of the product
• Suggest methods to improve operational efficiency
• Work cross-functionally with different teams and organizations

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent Ability to read and understand designs and schematics
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Ability to multi-task, organize, and prioritize work

Intern - Manuscript Editing

Chicago (Hybrid)

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), published continuously since 1883, is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal. JAMA is a member of the JAMA Network family of journals, which includes 11 specialty journals and JAMA Network Open. The JAMA Network provides access to the research, reviews, and opinions shaping the future of medicine.

At AMA, our mission to improve the health of the nation starts with our people. We foster an inclusive, people-first culture where every employee is empowered to perform at their best. Together, we advance meaningful change in health care and the communities we serve.

We encourage and support professional development for our employees, and we are dedicated to social responsibility. We invite you to learn more about us and we look forward to getting to know you.

Join the JAMA team as an Intern. This is a hybrid position reporting into our Chicago, IL office, requiring 1 day a week in the office.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Preference is for an individual who is underrepresented in the medical writing/editing community (see American Medical Writers Association 2022 DEI survey).
• This person would train with senior manuscript editors, working with the AMA Manual of Style, reading sections and completing quizzes on style topics.
• They would observe and participate in the daily activities of JNO and specialty journal manuscript editors to get a sense of what the job is like.
• They would meet with Graphics, Production, Proofreading, and other teams with whom manuscript editors collaborate.
• Under the supervision of the Managing Editor and Assistant Deputy Managing Editor, they would edit commentaries with the eventual goal of editing a Research Letter.

May include other responsibilities as assigned

REQUIREMENTS:

1. The intern should be a 3rd or 4th year student at 4-year college, majoring in English, journalism, or life sciences who is interested in pursuing a career in medical editing.

This role is a non-exempt position and the hourly rate for this position is $20. This is the highest rate we believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's pay within the salary range will be determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to business consideration, geographical location, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience. Employees are also eligible to participate in an incentive plan. To learn more about the American Medical Association's benefits offerings, please click here.

The American Medical Association is located at 330 N. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 and is convenient to all public transportation in Chicago.

We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity in our workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. As an EOE/AA employer, the American Medical Association will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and veteran or disability status.

THE AMA IS COMMITTED TO IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF THE NATION

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• B2B Sales Experience: Minimum of 1+ years of B2B Sales Representative or SDR/BDR experience
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Akkodis is seeking a Platform Software Engineer role is a Full-Time with a client located in Allentown, Cincinnati, Chicago, (Occasionally Onsite). Ideally looking for applicants to have a solid background in embedded systems/Payroll, Python/Django, AWS, API, React. would come as a big plus.

Salary Range: $165k-$190k/Annum + Benefits, The salary may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Key Responsibilities

Customer Collaboration & Developer Relations

• Serve as the primary technical interface for customers, partners, and indirect channel teams.
• Host technical discussions, requirement? Gathering sessions, and architecture reviews directly with customers.
• Provide developer support, guidance, and best practices for integration and implementation.
• Represent the embedded team in developer? Facing demos, product enablement, and partner technical workshops.
• Translate customer needs into actionable engineering tasks, ensuring platform capabilities align with business goals.

Platform Customization & Embedded Engineering

• Lead the design and implementation of custom features, enhancements, and integrations across our platform.
• Develop application? Layer components and service extensions using Python, Django, and REST? Based APIs.
• Build and integrate customer? Facing portal/UI components in React.
• Leverage AWS services to build scalable, cloud-backed integrations.

Architecture, API & Systems Integration

• Own the documentation and development of APIs, SDKs, and interface design documents (IDDs).
• Ensure seamless integration between on?device components, microservices, and customer systems.

Technical Troubleshooting & Tier?3 Support

• Diagnose and resolve complex issues.
• Provide senior? Level technical escalation support for customers and internal teams.
• Lead root?cause analysis and drive long? Term corrective improvements across the platform.

Project Delivery & Leadership

• Lead customer? Specific development initiatives from ideation through deployment.
• Own timelines, deliverables, and technical direction for customization projects.
• Mentor junior engineers and influence cross? Team engineering best practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Expertise in Python, with experience building backend services or integration layers (Django strongly preferred).
• Proficiency in React for developing customer?facing interfaces or partner tools.
• Experience with AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, or related services).
• Strong experience with embedded systems development.
• Experience with API design, interface documentation, and integration workflows.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, including customers and indirect channel partners.
• Proven success in customer-facing engineering, developer support, or solutions engineering roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Developer Relations, technical evangelism, or technical account management.
• Experience supporting indirect channel partners, VARs, ISVs, or system integrators.
• Background in pre?sales engineering, partner enablement, or customer?led solution design.

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Benefits offerings include but are not limited to:

• 401(k) with match

• Medical insurance

• Dental Insurance

• Vision assistance

• Paid Holidays Off

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Job Title: MEP Engineer – Capital Projects

Location: North Chicago, IL

Duration: 12 Months (Contract)

Position Overview

We are seeking a detail-oriented and experienced MEP Engineer – Capital Projects to support the successful execution of capital project initiatives. This role is responsible for ensuring that all mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) installations and systems meet design specifications, performance expectations, and regulatory standards.

The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise, compliance knowledge, and hands-on experience in inspection, validation, and documentation within a regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Review, verify, and document compliance of MEP systems with design specifications, URS requirements, and regulatory standards
• Inspect electrical equipment installations and wiring methods to ensure adherence to approved designs and local code requirements
• Validate installation quality and ensure alignment with vendor specifications and engineering standards
• Review instrument calibration certificates and ensure proper documentation of calibration activities
• Perform loop testing and support commissioning activities for electrical and instrumentation systems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, quality, and project management to ensure seamless project execution
• Identify and report deviations, non-conformances, and recommend corrective actions
• Support documentation processes including validation protocols, reports, and compliance records
• Ensure all activities are conducted in accordance with safety, quality, and regulatory guidelines

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or related Engineering discipline
• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or regulated industries
• 5+ years of experience in MEP engineering within capital projects or industrial environments
• Strong knowledge of electrical systems, instrumentation, and wiring standards
• Experience with installation verification, commissioning, and validation processes
• Familiarity with regulatory standards, codes, and compliance requirements (e.g., NEC, GMP environments preferred)
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, P&IDs, and technical documentation
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and documentation skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of URS (User Requirement Specifications) and validation lifecycle
• Prior experience working on large-scale capital or greenfield projects
• Certification or training in Six Sigma, Quality Assurance, or related disciplines