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AI/ML Engineer

Minnesota - Developer

Hollstadt Overview

Hollstadt Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm dedicated to placing professionals at engagements where they will excel. When you work with us, you'll work with a refreshingly real company led and staffed by seasoned experts who are also down-to-earth, good people. We're committed to treating you with respect and helping you achieve your career aspirations.

Since 1990, Hollstadt has been a trusted partner to more than 150 domestic and global companies and has successfully completed over 3,000 projects. Our continued growth has created challenging and rewarding opportunities for accomplished IT and Business Consultants. Hollstadt Consulting is an equal opportunity employer including disability/veteran.

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Job Description

Role: AI/ML Engineer

Location: Remote

Duration: 1 year

Rate: $78.20/hour W2


Role Summary:

AI/ML software engineers to design and build production AI systems for healthcare. The role spans AI system design (agent architectures, evaluation, guardrails) and production software engineering (Python services, data pipelines, cloud deployment). We are hiring multiple contractors; specific strengths can differ across candidates.

 

Core Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement Agentic AI systems — LLM integrations, prompt engineering, MCP servers, agent architectures.
  • Build and maintain Python services, automation workflows, and data pipelines (including RAG with embeddings and vector databases).
  • Implement evaluation frameworks and guardrails for LLM/agent systems before production.
  • Deploy, monitor, and optimize ML/AI solutions in the cloud.
  • Collaborate with product, data, and engineering teams; uphold code quality, performance, security, and maintainability.

Technical Requirements:

Experience: 7+ years of software/ML engineering, with recent hands-on AI/LLM work.

Python: Advanced; production experience with APIs, async, and testing.

AI / LLM agents: Designing and implementing autonomous or semi-autonomous agents (tool- using, planners, orchestrators).

Agent frameworks: Hands-on with at least one (LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, Google ADK).

MCP: Agent communication, coordination, or protocol-driven AI architectures.

Evaluation & guardrails: Prompt regression tests, hallucination and quality metrics, and guardrails for PII, jailbreaks, and unsafe outputs. -ML lifecycle: ML pipelines, deployment, evaluation, monitoring; embedding models, vector DBs, and RAG.

Data management: Modeling, pipelines, SQL/NoSQL, data quality and governance at scale.

Cloud: Hands-on in Azure, AWS, or GCP; cloud-native deployment patterns and CI/CD.

HIPAA / PHI: Working knowledge of PHI handling in AI — BAA-covered model endpoints, no PHI in training data or logs, de-identification before prompt context.

 

Preferred Technical Skills:

  • AI/LLM Agent and MCP tooling
  • Google ADK, Copilot Studio.
  • Cloud Experience – Google Cloud or Azure preferred.
  • Database Knowledge – BigQuery, Firestore, Cloud SQL, etc. -Data pipeline – Dataflow. -Power Automate. -Automation Tooling – UiPath, etc. -CI/CD Pipeline – Azure DevOps Pipeline. -Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Terraform.

Other Requirements:

Rapid experimentation: AI moves fast; continuously evaluates new models, capabilities, and emerging patterns (MCP, A2A, agent frameworks).

Healthcare context: AI/ML in this environment requires healthcare grounding, not generic model building. -Proactive: Proposes AI-assisted solutions; tests what is possible and shares findings.

Independent operator: Works with minimal supervision in fast-moving environments; strong documentation and cross-functional collaboration. -MLOps or LLMOps experience. -Streaming or event-driven architectures. -Prior enterprise or large-scale data management.


Required Education:

  • Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, mathematics, health science, or a related field AND one (1) year experience. (Escalate for approval if Master's degree is not in any of the specified fields of study).
  • OR
  • Bachelor's degree with three (3) years of experience.
  • OR
  • HS Diploma/GED with Seven (7) years of experience may be considered.


Benefits + Perks

Comprehensive Benefit Plan

Hollstadt offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, and retirement benefits to eligible employees. With three different medical plans to choose from, you can enroll in the coverage you need from individual to family, or anywhere in between!

Remarketing Process

Hollstadt is based on retention and relationships. We get to know your strengths and career wishes throughout your assignment and then start remarket discussions 6-8 weeks prior to your end date. By being proactive, we are able to keep your down time between assignments as short as possible, unless you choose otherwise.

Professional Development

Hollstadt offers on-demand training through our consultant portal. Trainings give our consultants the continuing education they need to excel on their projects. Many of our courses apply towards continuing education credits and we have an entire training hub dedicated to upskilling in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

401k + Matching

One popular benefit is our 401(k) match on the first 4% of your contributions. Hollstadt wants to help you reach your long-term financial goals and understands that planning for your future is critical. Consultants also have access to support from a Financial Advisor.

Bonus Opportunities

We appreciate and reward loyalty. Join Hollstadt, stay for 5 years, and we’ll give you a $5,000 Longevity Award bonus! Additionally, we know great talent knows other great talent. If you are on contract with Hollstadt and refer one of your connections who gets placed, we’ll pay you $1,000!

Ongoing Support & Networking

We have made a significant investment in building a support program for our consultant team - so you never have to feel like you are going it alone. We also have a Consultant Coach program which acts like a 'work buddy' to provide a safe ear for questions or concerns at your client site.