Title: AI/ML Architect, Enterprise Finance
Location: Olympia, WA
Duration: 8 Months+ Extension
Bill Rate: $73/hour(C2C)
Job Type: W-2, 1099, C2C
Client: To Be Discussed Later
Work Authorization: USC, GC, H-1B, OPT-EAD, GC-EAD, H4-EAD

 Job Summary:

Are you passionate about applying AI to solve complex business challenges at enterprise scale? We are seeking a Lead AI/ML Engineer to Architect, build, and operationalize AI capabilities that drive decision-making, productivity, and innovation across the Finance organization.

In this role, you will lead the development of AI-powered solutions including large language model (LLM) applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), intelligent agents, classification models, summarization workflows, and decision-support tools. You will work closely with Finance, Data Engineering, Architecture, Security, and Responsible AI teams to deliver trusted, scalable, and governed AI solutions. The role aligns with enterprise AI/ML engineering practices and AI productization standards

Key Responsibilities:

• Design AI solution architectures aligned with business objectives, risk tolerance, and governance requirements.

• Build and deploy LLM workflows, prompt orchestration chains, agent-based solutions, RAG applications, model integrations, classification models, and decision-support capabilities.

• Develop prompt strategies, grounding approaches, tool-calling patterns, guardrails, and fallback mechanisms to improve solution quality and reliability.

• Partner with Data Engineering teams to ensure access to trusted, governed, and high-quality data sources.

• Establish evaluation frameworks, test datasets, scoring rubrics, and model-performance benchmarks.

• Monitor and optimize output quality, relevance, accuracy, consistency, latency, cost efficiency, and hallucination risk.

• Conduct failure-mode analysis and implement continuous improvements to AI systems.

• Collaborate with Quality Engineering, Responsible AI, Security, Privacy, Compliance, and Enterprise Architecture teams.

• Document AI solution behavior, limitations, controls, and operational monitoring requirements.

• Support production readiness through observability, monitoring, model evaluation, and drift detection practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field; equivalent experience considered.

• Significant experience in software engineering, machine learning, or AI engineering.

• Hands-on experience building and deploying generative AI and LLM-based applications in production environments.

• Experience with prompt engineering, RAG architectures, AI agents, model evaluation, and operational AI governance.

• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, APIs, data platforms, and scalable software systems.

• Knowledge of Responsible AI, security, privacy, and compliance practices.

• Proven ability to work effectively with technical and business stakeholders.