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Senior AI/ML Full Stack 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: Senior AI/ML Engineer

Contract: 6 months

Location: Remote

Pay Rate: $70.39/hr W2


We are seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer with strong hands-on experience designing, building, evaluating, and deploying production-grade AI/ML and Generative AI solutions. This role will focus on healthcare and enterprise AI applications, including LLM-powered assistants, document intelligence, machine learning pipelines, full-stack application development, and cloud-native deployment.

 

Scope of Work:

  • The candidate will be responsible for designing and developing scalable AI solutions that combine large language models, structured and unstructured data, cloud services, machine learning components, APIs, and user-facing applications. Responsibilities include developing document ingestion and processing workflows, semantic search, embeddings, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, AI safety guardrails, APIs, production monitoring, and end-to-end AI-enabled applications.

 

  • The candidate will also be responsible for full-stack development, including building responsive user interfaces, backend services, RESTful APIs, data integrations, authentication and authorization, and integrations with AI/ML models and cloud-based services.


  • The role will include designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to automate application build, testing, validation, security checks, and deployment across development, testing, staging, and production environments. Responsibilities may include Azure DevOps Pipelines, Git-based source control, branching strategies, automated unit and integration testing, environment configuration, release management, deployment automation, and troubleshooting deployment issues.

 

  • The candidate will be expected to follow strong software engineering and MLOps practices across the development lifecycle, including modular architecture, reusable components, version control, automated testing, code reviews, logging, observability, error handling, performance optimization, security, maintainability, and production support.

 

  • The role will also require close collaboration with product owners, clinical or business stakeholders, architects, DevOps engineers, security teams, and other technical teams to gather and translate requirements, communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs, and deliver reliable, secure, measurable, and maintainable AI solutions.


Required Skills:

-Strong Python programming and SQL experience

-Hands-on experience building production-grade Generative AI and LLM-powered applications

-Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, embeddings, semantic search, query expansion, and citation generation

-Experience with ML/NLP model development, evaluation, deployment, and performance monitoring

-Familiarity with LLM evaluation metrics such as answer relevance, context relevance, faithfulness, hallucination reduction, and citation accuracy

-Experience implementing AI safety guardrails, content moderation, blocked topics, escalation logic, and responsible AI controls

-Experience with full-stack application development, including modern front-end frameworks, backend services, REST APIs, authentication, and application integration

-Experience designing and developing CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps

-Experience with Git-based source control, automated testing, build pipelines, deployment pipelines, release management, and environment configuration

-Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP, AWS, or OCI

-Experience with tools and technologies such as Azure DevOps, Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, BigQuery, Snowflake, OpenSearch, Cloud Run, Docker, Airflow, Terraform, or comparable cloud and MLOps technologies

-Experience with containerized application development and deployment using Docker

-Experience designing and consuming APIs and integrating AI/ML services into enterprise applications

-Experience with production monitoring, logging, observability, model/application performance tracking, and troubleshooting

-Experience working with healthcare, claims, clinical, regulatory, life sciences, or enterprise data preferred

-Strong understanding of secure software development, data privacy, and enterprise application development practices

-Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders


Education Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree required in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical field.
  • Master’s degree or higher preferred in Data Science, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Engineering, or a related field.




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.