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BDO USA, LLP

AI Engineer

BDO USA, LLP, Houston, Texas, United States, 77246

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Job Summary:

With a global network serving clients across multiple industries and countries, our analytics game changers are poised for widespread technological impact. Our industry-recognized team is in high demand across data analytics, robotic process automation, and artificial intelligence. We gravitate towards bright individuals who value impactful change, worldly purpose, and a personal connection with diverse innovators. This role allows you to work with a team of talented consultants, requiring you to balance innovation with pragmatic client expectation management. With our team, you will be challenged to build scalable solutions, while embracing a fail-forward mentality critical to evolution. Whether you're telling a data story in ways our clients never imagined or building advanced AI models with automated data engineering, the core purpose will be centered on using data to impact people in a meaningful way.

This position works with cutting edge technology, deliver high quality solutions across various industries and collaborate with teams on engagements that range in size and scope. This position receives continuous career development opportunities, given the size and potential of client engagements. This role performs hands-on delivery of solutions that include artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive services, ML models, pipelines, databases, and other data analytics components, contributing to the development and unit testing of solutions.

Job Duties:

Designs, and implements best in class solutions that include AI and cognitive services, ML models, data ingestion strategies, semantic layers and models, visualizations, streaming processes, API integrations, and automation (RPA) solutions for end-to-end data analytics solutions on primarily, but not limited to, cloud analytics platforms such as Azure and AWS

Leverage multiple Large Language Models (LLM) to enhance natural language processing capabilities and develop advanced AI applications.

Designs and implements solutions incorporating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures and multimodal embeddings to enhance AI-driven insights by combining text, images, and structured data sourcesListens to client needs to align solutions with business requirements and delivery schedules

Creates written functional and technical designs

Participates in project status and stand meetings, and assists with providing aggregated project status for project and program managers

Assists with SLA compliance of solutions, and performs performance tuning and optimization efforts of end-to-end solutions

Writes code using multiple languages and correctly applies frameworks, architectural patterns, and software development principles

Delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables with broad impact (high throughput and low latency)

Assists with implementation of governance programs and best practices

Performs the cleaning and transforming of data from source systems into analytics models

Implements models to support data visualizations and integrations

Assists with implementing MLOps, DevOps, DataOps, methodologies on projects

Writes custom integration logic in applicable programming languages

Assists project managers with work breakdown structure creation, project estimation, resource staffing, workload planning and adjustments throughout the project lifecycle

Assists clients with licensing, security, and cost estimation of solutions

Performs code reviews to ensure adherence to standards

Works directly with clients and team members to establish secure data analytics platforms and infrastructure

Contributes to successful deployments of developed solutions and integration of DevOps and MLOps tools

Maintains a broad and current understanding of data analytics and business intelligence strategies, cloud platforms, methodologies, and tools

Builds client relationships during project execution, effectively becoming a trusted advisor of the client

Participates in support activities for existing software solutions

Other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Supervises the day-to-day workload of Associates on assigned engagements to ensure that timelines and deliverables are met, and reviews work product

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Education:

High School Diploma or GED equivalent, required

Bachelor's degree, preferred; focus in Information Systems, Data Science or Computer Science, preferred

Experience:

Five (5) or more years of experience within Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Machine Learning, Application Development, required

One (1) or more years of experience technically leading development projects, preferred

One (1) or more years of consulting experience or implementation of cloud-based data analytics solutions, preferred

Software:

Strong experience with AI/ML model lifecycle, required

Experience with AI & ML Platforms such as Azure Cognitive Services or AWS SageMaker & ML Services, required

Strong SQL skills including Data Definition Language (DDL), Data Manipulation Language (DML), views, functions, stored procedures, or performance tuning, required

Experience with one (1) or more of the following computer languages, preferred:

C#

Python

Java

Strong experience with Large Language Models (LLM), preferred

Hands on delivery experience of end-to-end cloud data analytics solutions within Azure or AWS, preferred

Experience with Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, Semantic Model Definition or Star Schema Construction, preferred

Experience with tabular modeling within Power BI or Azure Analysis Services, preferred

Experience with Git, DevOps, and MLOps deployment technologies, preferred

Experience with Linux, preferred

Experience with one (1) or more of the following, preferred:

AI Algorithms/Machine Learning

Computer Vision based AI technologies

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Ability to work with a high degree of professionalism and autonomy

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Solid organizational skills, especially the ability to meet project deadlines with a focus on details

Ability to successfully multi-task while working independently or within a group environment

Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment, and handle multiple projects simultaneously

Ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels of the Firm

Ability to effectively interact with a team of professionals and delegating work assignments, as needed

Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and client personnel

Keywords:

Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, BI, Solution Architect, Data Architect, Synapse, IoT, Machine Learning, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Data Lake, Stream, Cube, Microsoft, SQL Server, Tableau, .Net, C#, Qlik, Power BI, Machine Learning, Azure Data Factory, RedShift, UiPath, Cloud, RPA, AWS, Redshift, Kinesis, QuickSight, SageMaker, S3, Databricks, AWS Lake Formation, Snowflake, Python, Qlik, Athena, Data Pipeline, Glue, Star Schema, Data Modeling, Performance Tuning, SQL

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