BDO USA, LLP

AI/ML Engineer - Houston Only

BDO USA, LLP$100K — $140K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Data Science, or Computer Science preferred
  • 5+ years of experience in AI, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Machine Learning
  • 1+ years of experience leading technical development projects preferred
  • Experience with enterprise AI platforms like Azure and AWS is required
  • Strong SQL skills including performance tuning, views, and stored procedures are essential
  • Familiarity with Large Language Models and prompt engineering required
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python or C# is preferred

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement AI and ML solutions for cloud analytics platforms
  • Leverage Large Language Models to enhance natural language processing capabilities
  • Implement retrieval-augmented generation architectures for enhanced insights
  • Collaborate with clients to align solutions with business requirements
  • Create functional and technical design documentation
  • Assist project managers with project estimation and resource planning
  • Maintain compliance with SLA and optimize performance for AI solutions

Benefits

  • Continuous career development opportunities
  • Collaboration with cutting-edge technology across various industries
  • Potential for involvement in high-impact client engagements
  • Mentorship and leadership opportunities within teams
  • Exposure to a wide range of AI and cloud computing technologies
Full Job Description
Job Description

Job Summary:

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 enterprise AI solutions including Generative AI applications, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures, multimodal systems, cloud-native AI platforms, and traditional AI/ML 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 sources
  • Listens 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
  • Implements MLOps, LLMOps, AgentOps, DevOps, and DataOps practices including model evaluation, prompt versioning, continuous deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of AI solutions
  • 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, AIOps, 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:
  • Mentors and advises 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:
  • Bachelor's degree, required; 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 and AI solutions, preferred

License/Certifications:
  • N/A

Software:
  • Strong experience with AI/ML model lifecycle, required
  • Experience with enterprise AI platforms such as Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service, AWS Bedrock, AWS SageMaker, or Google Vertex AI, required
  • Strong experience with Large Language Models (LLM), prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, and AI orchestration frameworks, 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
  • 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

Language:
  • N/A

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, AWS, Redshift, Kinesis, QuickSight, SageMaker, S3, Databricks, AWS Lake Formation, Snowflake, Python, Qlik, Athena, Data Pipeline, Glue, Star Schema, Data Modeling, Performance Tuning, SQL, LLM, Bedrock, SageMaker, Azure Foundry, Google Vertex, RAG

About BDO USA, LLP

BDO USA, LLP is a professional services firm providing assurance, tax, and advisory services to a wide range of publicly traded and privately held companies. The company was founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. BDO USA has more than 60 offices and over 5,000 employees throughout the United States. The company is a member of the BDO International network, which has more than 1,500 offices in over 160 countries.
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