Applied AI Engineer/Architect
West Monroe28 days ago
Boston, MA, USA +8 moreSenior
Base Salary
$225k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and delivery of enterprise AI solutions, including model selection, retrieval, workflow orchestration, evaluation, observability, guardrails, and human oversight.
- Design and implement AI-enabled applications using LLMs, agents, retrieval augmented generation, tool integrations, and secure production deployment patterns.
- Define semantic models, ontologies, metadata strategies, permissions, and data contracts for enterprise AI workflows.
- Advise clients on AI strategy, feasibility, data readiness, governance, responsible AI, model selection, and implementation roadmaps.
- Integrate AI capabilities with application, data, cloud, API, security, and operational systems.
- Establish evaluation methodologies using benchmark datasets, regression testing, red-team scenarios, quality metrics, and release criteria.
- Support business development through proposals, client presentations, executive discussions, and technical solution architecture.
- Develop reusable AI frameworks, accelerators, evaluation methodologies, and reference architectures.
- Mentor engineers and architects and contribute to thought leadership, innovation, and internal capability building.
- Travel 25% to 50%.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, machine learning, applied AI, or technical architecture, including recent hands-on AI engineering experience.
- Production experience with LLMs, AI agents, RAG, prompt engineering, AI evaluation frameworks, observability, MLOps, or machine learning platforms.
- Strong Python development skills and proficiency in at least one additional enterprise technology stack such as TypeScript, Java, C#, or modern data engineering frameworks.
- Experience with AI ecosystems such as Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Databricks, Snowflake, or Microsoft Fabric.
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture, APIs, identity and access management, security, data engineering, application integration, and production deployment.
- Knowledge of semantic modeling, ontology design, knowledge representation, data governance, and enterprise AI architecture.
- Ability to communicate AI concepts, tradeoffs, risks, and implementation approaches to executives, business leaders, architects, and engineering teams.
- Experience using AI tools such as ChatGPT in workflows and critically assessing accuracy, bias, and output quality.
- Ability to work permanently in the United States without sponsorship.
- Commitment to inclusion and diversity and openness to new ideas and perspectives.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage for employees and families.
- 401k plan, employee stock ownership program, and eligibility for annual bonuses.
- Unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays.
- Ten weeks of paid parental leave eligibility upon hire.
- The role requires travel of 25% to 50%.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About West Monroe
West Monroe is a Chicago-based business and technology consulting firm that helps enterprises and private equity sponsors improve operations and build digital capabilities. It sells project-based consulting across industries such as financial services, healthcare, energy, and software, including M&A advisory, customer experience, product and data strategy, and cybersecurity. Founded in 2002 and privately held under M/C Partners, it operates from multiple U.S. hubs.