AI Systems Engineer

AI Systems Engineer

Location Birmingham, AL Date Posted August 24, 2026 Job ID 15084 Employment Type Direct Hire

Scion Staffing has been engaged to conduct a search for an AI Systems Engineer for a nationally established legal organization investing significantly in the infrastructure and technology that will shape its future services. This is a fully remote position, but must be located within 200 miles of Birmingham, AL.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The AI Systems Engineer will serve as a hands-on technical contributor responsible for building and maintaining the Azure infrastructure, document pipelines, integrations, and data architecture supporting the organization's AI ecosystem. This position will develop secure internal and client-facing AI applications while working with document ingestion, RAG, vector search, LLM integrations, and legal technology platforms. Reporting to senior technology and operations leadership, this role is well suited for an engineer who enjoys focused technical work, production ownership, and solving complex data and integration challenges.

PERKS:

• Competitive base salary anticipated between $185,000 and $215,000, depending on experience and qualifications
• Comprehensive employee benefits package supporting health and overall well-being
• Fully remote opportunity with up to 20% annual travel to Alabama.
• High-impact role helping build the foundation of a growing enterprise AI program
• Opportunity to work with modern Azure AI services, legal technology platforms, and production AI applications

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build, operate, and monitor Azure infrastructure supporting AI workloads, including Azure Container Apps, Static Web Apps, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, Azure Key Vault, Entra Application Proxy, SSO, and Conditional Access.
• Design and maintain production document-ingestion pipelines that extract content from enterprise document systems, process it through Azure Document Intelligence and Content Understanding, preserve important metadata, and load the results into vector and hybrid-search indexes.
• Develop and support the back-end components of internal and client-facing AI applications, including REST APIs, integrations, agent logic, retrieval pipelines, MCP servers, workflow automation, authentication, and databases.
• Architect and optimize RAG systems, Azure AI Search, Cosmos DB, vector stores, document schemas, ontologies, taxonomies, embedding-based retrieval, and retrieval-evaluation frameworks.
• Maintain integrations and data flows among Azure AI services, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Graph API, SharePoint Online, iManage Cloud, Copilot, Claude Enterprise, Harvey AI, and other AI and legal technology platforms.
• Own application and integration reliability, including monitoring, troubleshooting, performance, version management, GitHub Enterprise release processes, documentation, data governance, access controls, data residency, and ethical-wall compliance.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, AI engineering, or a related field, including hands-on experience supporting production systems.
• Demonstrated experience with Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, Azure Document Intelligence, Azure Content Understanding, Azure Functions, Container Apps, Cosmos DB, Key Vault, etc...
• Experience designing and implementing document-ingestion pipelines involving OCR, text extraction, metadata preservation, chunking, embeddings, vector indexing, and hybrid search.
• Hands-on experience building or operating RAG architectures, LLM-integrated applications, vector stores, back-end services, REST APIs, OAuth integrations, API-key controls, and webhook-based workflows.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Graph API, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Copilot 365, Copilot Studio, custom connectors, agent development, MCP server configuration, and enterprise identity or access-management practices.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts when required. Experience with iManage Cloud, Claude Enterprise, Harvey AI, CoCounsel, Patlytics, legal technology, document schemas, React, or compliance-sensitive environments is preferred.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

This position offers an anticipated base salary range of $185,000-$215,000k/yr (DOE), technical expertise, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors. Our partner also provides a comprehensive employee benefits package designed to support the health, well-being, and professional success of its team members. Additional information regarding benefits will be shared during the screening process.

HOW TO APPLY: For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here!

ABOUT OUR SEARCH FIRM:

Scion Staffing is a national award-winning staffing firm! Since 2006, we have had the pleasure of successfully placing thousands of talented professionals with amazing career opportunities. Through our innovative team building and recruiting solutions, we bridge the gap in executive leadership searches, direct hire recruiting, interim leadership placement, and temporary professional staffing. We are proud to be part of the Forbes lists of the Best Recruitment Firms and the Best Executive Search Firms in America. Additionally, Scion has been recognized as a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing firm as well as a top recruitment firm by The Business Times. Additional information about our firm can also be found online.

Scion Staffing, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and service provider and does not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation or belief, or any other protected class. We are committed to the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and are dedicated to making employment decisions based on merit and value, for ourselves, our client companies, and the candidates we represent. For opportunities located in a region that have enacted fair chance, arrest or conviction-based employment ordinances, Scion Staffing proactively follows the enacted guidance and considers for employment all qualified applications with arrest and conviction records. We engage in socially conscious business practices and believe that diverse, inclusive, and non-biased talent and recruitment processes are foundational to the success of Scion as well as every client organization with whom we partner.