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AI Engineer

Minnesota - AI Engineer

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 Engineer

Location: Remote - local preferred but not required

Start Date: 9/28/2026

Salary: $105,000 - $140,000, plus 8% AIP eligibility


POSITION SUMMARY:  (Why this role exists)

The AI/ML Engineer will play a crucial role in the AI Center of Excellence (CoE), supporting cross-functional teams across the organization. This position will focus on designing, developing and developing machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), Generative AI (GenAI) and Agentic AI solutions to address domain specific needs, improve user experiences and automate business workflows.

 

ACCOUNTABILITIES: (The primary functions, scope and responsibilities of the role)

Engineering:

  • Work across diverse GenAI platforms like AWS, SalesForce, Oracle, Snowflake, MS Copilot, and other 3rd party GenAI platforms and libraries. 
  • Automate workflows involving extraction of complex, multimodal unstructured content from variety of sources in to highly accurate and reliable structured content using platforms like AWS Textract and Bedrock
  • Design and build MCP hosts, clients and servers 
  • Establish and use frameworks for automated LLM testing 
  • Create regression test suites to detect drift or prompt breakage 
  • Integrate with internal and external web services using secure authentication and authorization mechanisms 
  • Adopt and ensure safe practices to protect against prompt injections, jailbreaks, and conform to enterprise security guidelines 
  • Design, develop, and deploy production-grade traditional ML models (e.g., regression, classification, clustering, recommender systems) for a variety of business use cases.
  • Design, maintain, and optimize end-to-end AI/ML pipelines including data ingestion, training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring on cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS or equivalent).
  • Ensure AI/ML solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-effective within cloud environments.
  • Create reusable components, frameworks, and best practices to accelerate AI development.

Design and Innovation:

  • Design and develop GenAI solutions using prompt engineering, Context Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and custom pipelines 
  • Design and develop interoperable AI agents using Model Context Protocol (MCP) and/or Google A2A 

Collaboration and Enablement:

  • Partner with data scientists, architects, product managers, business stakeholders and technical teams across organization to align AI solutions with organizational goals.
  • Provide hands-on technical support and mentorship to technical teams across the enterprise.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: (Minimum qualifications needed for this position including education, experience, certification, knowledge and/or physical requirements)

Knowledge of:

  • Machine learning algorithms, deep learning frameworks, Cloud AI technologies, GenAI technologies and emerging Agentic AI technologies.
  • Cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) for scalable AI/ML development.
  • Responsible AI principles, including bias mitigation and ethical deployment.
  • ML Ops best practices including CI/CD for ML, model monitoring, and versioning.

Ability to:

  • Build robust, scalable, and efficient AI/ML solutions in cloud-native environments.
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into clear, technical ML/AI tasks.
  • Communicate complex ideas clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Learn and adapt quickly to emerging AI technologies, techniques, and tools.

Education and/or Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
  • 3+ years of experience designing and deploying ML/AI solutions in real-world environments.
  • Very strong Python skills.  
  • Strong hands-on experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, etc.) using Python and Python based frameworks 
  • Strong hands-on experience in prompt engineering, context construction, grounding strategies 
  • Strong hands-on experience with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) extracting, chunking and create embeddings from unstructured documents from diverse sources including O365(email, word, excel), PDFs, and webpages.  
  • Comfortable building Model Context Protocol (MCP) clients, servers and hosts.  
  • Strong Expertise in building REST APIs and integrating with internal/external APIs 
  • Hands-on experience with Intelligent Document Processing and/or OCR technologies on complex documents 
  • Knowledge of Google A2A 
  • Deep experience in AWS (Lambda, Bedrock, Step Functions, API Gateway, IAM) 
  • Strong experience with Observability tools like Dynatrace, or other similar GenAI observability tools 
  • Excellent GenAI foundations and concepts 
  • Clear understanding of enterprise data privacy, AI governance, and observability 
  • Proficiency in Python and common ML/AI libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn).
  • Strong understanding of data engineering, SQL, and feature engineering.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud services such as AWS Sagemaker, Lambda, ECS, S3, and IAM.
  • Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (e.g., Airflow, Kubeflow).
  • Working with version control and collaboration tools (Git, Jira, Confluence etc).

 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: (Additional qualifications that may make a person even more effective in the role, but are not required for consideration)

  • Master’s in a related technical field.
  • Hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks.
  • Prior contributions to open-source AI/ML projects or published research.
  • AI/ML certifications from cloud providers
  • Experience in highly regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, finance) a plus.


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.