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Job Description: About Us You join a global media organization that creates the future of content, advertising, and audience engagement. Our product organization develops data‑driven, technology‑powered solutions that help clients connect with audiences in meaningful ways. Role Overview As an AI Engineer, you design, build, and deploy AI capabilities that advance our products and deliver measurable business outcomes. You work with product managers, data scientists, engineers, and cross‑functional partners to build scalable systems that support content personalization, audience analytics, creative optimization, and related use cases. What You Do Build AI solutions by designing and maintaining production‑ready systems that support media products. Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions. Deploy and scale systems in production environments with a focus on reliability, performance, and global impact. Improve models continuously using real‑world performance data and feedback loops. Explore new approaches by researching AI and ML advancements and prototyping solutions that enhance our products. Promote responsible AI by applying fairness, transparency, privacy, and compliance standards in every system you create. What You Bring Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field. A PhD is welcome but not required. Strong Python skills with experience using LLM orchestration libraries such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Semantic Kernel. Experience working with enterprise LLMs and their APIs, including understanding performance challenges and mitigation strategies. Production experience building and integrating APIs, including RESTful API conventions and tools such as FastAPI. Experience combining multiple techniques for improving LLM output quality, such as prompt engineering, multi‑agent orchestration, structured output validation, hybrid RAG, in‑context learning, and related methods. Proficiency in document processing workflows, including text extraction, chunking, and embedding. Experience monitoring and improving AI systems. Familiarity with tracing tools such as Arize, OpenTelemetry, or LangSmith is a plus. Strong foundation in data science, including statistical methods and working with structured and unstructured data. At dentsu, we believe great work happens when we’re connected. Our way of working combines flexibility with in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Employees who live within a commutable distance of one of our hub offices, currently located in Chicago, metro Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York City, are required and expected to work from the office three days per week (two days per week for employees based in Los Angeles). Dentsu may designate other Hub offices at any time. Those who live outside a commutable range may be designated as remote, depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location, we expect our employees to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients, which may include attendance in an office. The annual salary range for this position is $136,000 - $219,075. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law. Benefits available with this position include: • Medical, vision, and dental insurance, • Life insurance, • Short-term and long-term disability insurance, • 401k, • Flexible paid time off, • At least 15 paid holidays per year, • Paid sick and safe leave, and • Paid parental leave. Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com. To begin the application process, please click on the “Apply” button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps. Location: Chicago - N. State Brand: Dentsu Time Type: Full time Contract Type: Permanent Dentsu is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. We do this without regard to race, color, national origin, sex , sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religious practices and observances, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Dentsu is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to, among others, individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to search and apply for a career opportunity with us, please send an e-mail to ApplicantAccommodations@dentsu.com by clicking on the link to let us know the nature of your accommodation request and your contact information. We are here to support you. Can’t find a suitable job? Sign up for job alerts tailored to your interests and be first in line for new opportunities. About dentsu For over 120 years, innovation has been a core tenet of our offering – exploring new ways to reach, engage and nurture relationships with audiences. Together we drive a multiplier effect for clients at a global scale, through the development of Integrated Growth Solutions that are underpinned by our promise to clients: innovating to impact. Be a force for good. Sustainability is a vital part of our business and an important area of focus for our clients. We’re leading the way – helping to build a more sustainable planet. Dream loud. In this moment of transformation, we need our people to be fearless, embracing change and ambiguity, driven by the love for their work and excitement for the future. Team without limits. 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