AI Solutions Specialist
Wight & Company3 days ago
Base Salary
$80k - $125k/yr
Responsibilities
- Learn how teams work, prioritize needs with the Chief Innovation Officer, and translate priorities into tools with clear user needs and success criteria.
- Build, improve, maintain, and support AI agents and automations using Copilot agent-building tools, Copilot Studio, and Power Automate.
- Lead demonstrations, small-group training, individual coaching, and creation of examples and user guides.
- Define useful outputs, test accuracy against trusted information, and establish when professional review is required.
- Identify and document data sources, ownership, definitions, and relationships across systems.
- Use Python, SaaS APIs, and approved tools to connect data and automate workflows.
- Extract, standardize, and validate important information from unstructured documents and records.
- Apply confidentiality, permissions, data security, and responsible AI guidelines.
- Track usage and results, resolve issues, update documentation, and improve launched solutions as needs and source systems change.
- Develop consistent data workflows with design, engineering, construction, estimating, and BIM teams for programming, estimating, risk management, scheduling, sustainability, and material and detail performance.
Requirements
- Hands-on generative AI experience and evidence of building an agent, automation, or other useful tool; coursework, internships, and personal projects count.
- Practical Python skills, including independently reading, explaining, testing, troubleshooting, and validating scripts written or modified with AI assistance.
- Practical problem-solving skills, including breaking unclear requests into steps, testing assumptions, and troubleshooting failed approaches.
- Basic data literacy, including working with tables, recognizing missing or inconsistent information, and understanding relationships across systems.
- Strong listening, communication, patience, and ability to help others learn unfamiliar tools.
- Curiosity about architecture, engineering, construction, and BIM, with willingness to learn from practitioners.
- Sound judgment regarding confidential information, access permissions, AI limitations, and escalation needs.
- Ability to work in person at the Darien, Illinois office.
- Helpful experience includes Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Automate, SharePoint, data management, data integration, data engineering, data lakes, JavaScript, SQL, SaaS APIs, Revit, Autodesk Construction Cloud, estimating applications, construction platforms, training facilitation, workflow documentation, or tool adoption.
- Relevant education, practical experience, self-directed learning, and project portfolios are considered; a specific degree or career path is not required.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, flexible spending, paid holidays, paid time off, and a 401(k).
- Flexible work schedule supporting work-life balance.
- In-person work in the Darien, Illinois office alongside architecture, engineering, estimating, and construction professionals.
Tech Stack
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About Wight & Company
Wight & Company is a privately held architecture, engineering, and construction firm that delivers integrated design-build services for public and private clients. Founded in 1939 and headquartered in Chicago, it covers architecture, MEP, structural and transportation engineering, interiors, and sustainability. Notable projects include the Chicago Public Library Chinatown Branch and the University of Chicago Booth School’s Gleacher Center.