Job Description

Hybrid 4 onsite / 1 work from home in Greenwood Village, CO

Our client seeks a Prompt Engineer to design, optimize, and maintain prompts that enable agentic AI assistants to reason, plan, and take actions across tools and workflows. The role focuses on multi‑step reasoning, tool usage, and orchestration frameworks while partnering closely with engineering and product teams. You will evaluate agent performance, mitigate failure modes, and document reusable patterns to improve autonomy, accuracy, and efficiency. The work will support enterprise assistants and integrations across systems and APIs.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $65.00 to $75.00/hr. w2

• Design and refine prompts that enable agentic behaviors such as task decomposition, planning, tool usage, and decision‑making.
• Track comments and user sentiments of agentic tools.
• Develop prompt strategies for multi‑step, goal‑oriented AI assistants operating across systems and APIs.
• Partner with AI/ML engineers and product teams to define agent roles, constraints, memory, and guardrails.
• Optimize prompts for agent orchestration frameworks including tool calling, function execution, and state management.
• Evaluate agent performance, identify failure modes such as loops, hallucinations, and incorrect actions, and implement mitigations.
• Support retrieval‑augmented generation to ground agent decisions in trusted data sources.
• Conduct experimentation and A/B testing to improve agent accuracy, autonomy, and efficiency.
• Document reusable agent prompt patterns, workflows, and best practices.
• Collaborate on production deployments while balancing autonomy, cost, latency, and reliability.

• 4-5+ years of experience in data science, ML engineering, software engineering, or applied AI.
• Hands‑on experience with large language models and prompt engineering techniques.
• Experience designing prompts for multi‑step reasoning, planning, and tool‑using agents.
• Strong Python skills for experimentation, evaluation, and integration.
• Familiarity with LLM APIs and agent frameworks.
• Ability to analyze agent outputs and improve behavior through prompt‑level controls.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.

Recruitment Transparency Notice

Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team ( noreply@eliassen.com , 781-808-2924) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group’s use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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