AI System Engineer
Job ID
125878
Job Type
Contract
Industry
Power
Pay Rate
$60
- $80 an hour
Location
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Talascend is currently seeking a AI System Engineer for a contract opportunity in Rellevue, WA
SUMMARY:
Client is looking for a motivated, detail-oriented, and collaborative AI Engineer to join our growing IT team. A successful candidate responds to time-sensitive situations with the right balance of expeditious and orderly actions. A successful candidate will demonstrate integrity, awareness and adaptability working in a diverse team with frequent shifting priorities.
As an AI Engineer, you will play an important role in building out AI tools to support our mission of nuclear energy innovation. From building AI solutions to protecting the organization's digital assets and proprietary information, to ensuring personnel are relying on accurate data. Your responsibilities will include identifying new opportunities to leverage AI and maintaining documentation for existing solutions use and deployments. You will be providing technical support to troubleshoot and resolve issues related to the AI's functionality, responding to incidents and relevant AI help desk tickets, training end-users in AI best practices. You will work daily to achieve the goal of empowering and augmenting Client’s human capital with AI capabilities, recognizing that your work is critical to, the company’s mission of safe and reliable nuclear power. The AI team’s purpose is to support the nuclear designers and engineers and will build AI systems that fit within their existing work processes.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
KEY QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
JOB FUNCTIONS:
Job Functions are physical actions and/or working conditions associated with the position. These functions may also constitute essential functions for the job which the employee must be able to fulfill, with or without accommodation. Information provided below is to help describe the job so that the applicant has a reasonable understanding of the job duties/expectations. An applicant's ability to perform and/or tolerate these actions and conditions will be discussed and workplace accommodations may be made on a case-by-case basis following an individualized assessment of the applicant and other considerations, including but not limited to any governing safety standards.
MOTOR ABILITIES:
Sitting and/or standing for extended periods, bending/stooping, grasping/gripping, fine motor control (hands)
Physical exertion and/or requirements: Minimal, with ability to safely lift up to 25 pounds
Repetitive work: Prolonged
Special Senses: Visual and audio focused work
Work Conditions: Stairs, typing/keyboard, standard and/or sitting working environment of >8 hrs./day
Travel required: 0-5%
SUMMARY:
Client is looking for a motivated, detail-oriented, and collaborative AI Engineer to join our growing IT team. A successful candidate responds to time-sensitive situations with the right balance of expeditious and orderly actions. A successful candidate will demonstrate integrity, awareness and adaptability working in a diverse team with frequent shifting priorities.
As an AI Engineer, you will play an important role in building out AI tools to support our mission of nuclear energy innovation. From building AI solutions to protecting the organization's digital assets and proprietary information, to ensuring personnel are relying on accurate data. Your responsibilities will include identifying new opportunities to leverage AI and maintaining documentation for existing solutions use and deployments. You will be providing technical support to troubleshoot and resolve issues related to the AI's functionality, responding to incidents and relevant AI help desk tickets, training end-users in AI best practices. You will work daily to achieve the goal of empowering and augmenting Client’s human capital with AI capabilities, recognizing that your work is critical to, the company’s mission of safe and reliable nuclear power. The AI team’s purpose is to support the nuclear designers and engineers and will build AI systems that fit within their existing work processes.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Strict adherence to established software development and project management procedures,
- many of which are based on nuclear and international standards.
- You will build safe and responsible AI systems.
- Working collaboratively with cross-functional teams to discuss product development, identify
- uses of AI tools, and figure out how to leverage tools to make processes more efficient
- Drafting, refining, and testing text prompts to make sure they are yielding the desired outcome
- Collaborate closely with subject matter experts to gather insights and domain knowledge for
- effective intent creation
- Ensure the most efficient use of a constellation of different state-of-the-art AI models deployed
- on our Azure tenant infrastructure.
- Optimizing text prompts based on feedback from users
- Staying up to date with the latest developments in AI and machine learning
- Use LLMs to process large data swaths, create desired outcomes, and shape bot logic
- Use Excel and basic analysis tools to evaluate the efficiency of the LLM prompts
KEY QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computational Linguistics, or a related field
- 2+ years experience in developing and deploying web applications.
- Preference will be given to tools that employ chatbot or conversational AI systems.
- Ability to quickly learn the quickly evolving fundamentals of modern AI architectures
- In depth knowledge of natural language processing techniques
- 2+ years of C# programming with familiarity with other programing languages (Python, R, etc.)
- Understanding of deep learning architectures and frameworks
- Own problems end to end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done
- Have a good intuition for when off the shelf solutions will work, but ability to build tools to accelerate your own workflow quickly if they won’t
- Have the ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team, and implement feedback quickly
- Excellent problem solving and analytical abilities
- Strong communication skills
- (preferred) Fluent in the processes described in IEEE/IEC/ISO 29148:2018.
- (preferred) 2+ years of experience in an organization with a strong nuclear safety culture (other OSHA compliant organizational cultures can be considered equivalent).
- (preferred) 2+ years of experience in an organization with classified or similarly controlled records.
- (preferred) Experience verifying compliance and testing the safety of Generative AI systems.
- (preferred) One or more prior projects leveraging retrieval augmented generation.
- (required) One of more prior projects leveraging the OpenAI API (or equivalent).
- Ability to quantitatively demonstrate the value of your AI solutions in service to a nuclear design organization.
- Intuitive understanding of cloud computing (containerization, Kubernetes, etc.) and cloud networking (virtual networks, firewalls, etc.) in the Azure ecosystem.
- Preference will be given to candidates with experience in the following technologies:
- Microsoft Bot Builder Framework SDK
- Azure Cosmos DB
- Azure Bot Service
- Azure Container Service
- Strong communication skills desired
- The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect, and a desire to foster teamwork
- Actual position starting level and title will be determined based on assessment of qualifications.
JOB FUNCTIONS:
Job Functions are physical actions and/or working conditions associated with the position. These functions may also constitute essential functions for the job which the employee must be able to fulfill, with or without accommodation. Information provided below is to help describe the job so that the applicant has a reasonable understanding of the job duties/expectations. An applicant's ability to perform and/or tolerate these actions and conditions will be discussed and workplace accommodations may be made on a case-by-case basis following an individualized assessment of the applicant and other considerations, including but not limited to any governing safety standards.
MOTOR ABILITIES:
Sitting and/or standing for extended periods, bending/stooping, grasping/gripping, fine motor control (hands)
Physical exertion and/or requirements: Minimal, with ability to safely lift up to 25 pounds
Repetitive work: Prolonged
Special Senses: Visual and audio focused work
Work Conditions: Stairs, typing/keyboard, standard and/or sitting working environment of >8 hrs./day
Travel required: 0-5%
We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those qualified individuals who closely meet the qualifications of the position will be contacted. The details of the position are only a summary, other duties may be assigned as necessary.
Background Check and Drug Screen may be required.
Pay range is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. Talascend also offers a variety of benefits including: health and disability insurance, 401(k), EAP, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, plan requirements, schedule type, and client work site mandates.
Talascend is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.