AI/ML Architect, Enterprise Finance — LLM & RAG Lead

Robotic Technologies Automation; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

Robotic Technologies Automation in Olympia, WA is seeking a Lead AI/ML Architect to design and deliver enterprise-scale AI solutions for Finance. You will lead the architecture, build LLM-based workflows, and drive governance across data, architecture, security, and Responsible AI teams.

The role requires hands-on experience deploying generative AI in production, strong cloud-native skills, and collaboration with cross-functional partners to ensure trusted data and scalable systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required or equivalent experience in a technical field.
• Significant experience in software engineering, machine learning, or AI engineering.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying generative AI and LLM-based applications in production.
• Experience with prompt engineering, RAG architectures, AI agents, model evaluation, and operational AI governance.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, APIs, data platforms, and scalable software systems.

Responsibilities

• Design AI solution architectures aligned with business objectives, risk tolerance, and governance requirements.
• Build and deploy LLM workflows, prompt orchestration chains, agent-based solutions, RAG applications, model integrations, classification models, and decision-support capabilities.
• Develop prompt strategies, grounding approaches, tool-calling patterns, guardrails, and fallback mechanisms to improve solution quality and reliability.
• Partner with Data Engineering teams to ensure access to trusted, governed, and high-quality data sources.
• Establish evaluation frameworks, test datasets, scoring rubrics, and model-performance benchmarks.
• Monitor and optimize output quality, relevance, accuracy, consistency, latency, cost efficiency, and hallucination risk.
• Conduct failure-mode analysis and implement continuous improvements to AI systems.
• Collaborate with Quality Engineering, Responsible AI, Security, Privacy, Compliance, and Enterprise Architecture teams.
• Document AI solution behavior, limitations, controls, and operational monitoring requirements.
• Support production readiness through observability, monitoring, model evaluation, and drift detection practices.

Skills

Software engineering

Machine learning

AI engineering

LLM deployment

Prompt engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field

Tools

LLM frameworks

Prompt libraries

RAG tooling

Job description

Robotic Technologies Automation in Olympia, WA is seeking a Lead AI/ML Architect to design and deliver enterprise-scale AI solutions for Finance. You will lead the architecture, build LLM-based workflows, and drive governance across data, architecture, security, and Responsible AI teams.

The role requires hands-on experience deploying generative AI in production, strong cloud-native skills, and collaboration with cross-functional partners to ensure trusted data and scalable systems.