Artificial Intelligence Senior Associate

FastTek Global; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and Dental (FastTek pays)

Vision

PTO

Long Term Disability

Life Insurance

401(k) with employer match

Job summary

FastTek Global is seeking an experienced AI software engineer to design and deploy intelligent programs, cognitive applications and data-driven automation. You will build production ML/AI systems, orchestrate multi-agent workflows and translate complex requirements into scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes cutting-edge AI techniques, including LLMs, RAG pipelines, and cloud deployments, with security, observability and cost optimization at the core.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 3+ years building production software systems, including 1-2+ years on ML/AI or LLM-based applications.
• Strong Python proficiency, including async/concurrent programming, and experience with backend frameworks (FastAPI, Flask).
• Hands-on experience with agent orchestration frameworks — LangGraph, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, or equivalent.
• Practical experience building RAG pipelines: vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, or Qdrant), embeddings, chunking strategies, and retrieval evaluation.
• Cloud deployment experience, ideally Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Cloud Run/GKE, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub) or equivalent AWS/Azure services.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with cloud data warehouses. Containerization and CI/CD experience (Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions/Cloud Build).
• Experience building evaluation and observability pipelines for LLM/agent systems — offline eval sets, LLM-as-judge scoring, and tracing tools (LangSmith, Langfuse, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent) to track task success, latency, and cost.
• Understanding of LLM safety practices: guardrails, output validation, prompt-injection defense, and safe execution of AI-generated code/SQL (sandboxing, least privilege). Solid software engineering fundamentals: API design, testing, version control, security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Understand business requirements and develop AI algorithms, models and programs to solve complex problems, generate recommendations, extract patterns, make predictions, interpret sensor data (images, sound), orchestrate automation and enable self-service capabilities
• Perform large-scale experimentation and develop data driven applications that translate data into actionable intelligence
• Drive innovative applications of Artificial Intelligence tools and techniques such as deep learning, generative AI, natural language processing, image processing, cognitive automation, intelligent process automation, reinforcement learning, virtual assistants and specialized programming
• Research and optimize AI technologies to enhance efficiency and accuracy of data analysis and create more efficient automation

Skills

Google Cloud Platform

Python

LangGraph

CrewAI

LlamaIndex

RAG pipelines

BigQuery

Vertex AI

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL

CI/CD

LangSmith

OpenTelemetry

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Cloud Build

pgvector

Pinecone

Weaviate

Qdrant

Job description

Employees in this job function are responsible for developing intelligent programs, cognitive applications and algorithms for data analysis and automation, leveraging various AI techniques such as deep learning, generative AI, natural language processing, image processing, cognitive automation, intelligent process automation, reinforcement learning, virtual assistants and specialized programming

Key Responsibilities

• Understand business requirements and develop AI algorithms, models and programs to solve complex problems, generate recommendations, extract patterns, make predictions, interpret sensor data (images, sound), orchestrate automation and enable self-service capabilities
• Perform large-scale experimentation and develop data driven applications that translate data into actionable intelligence
• Drive innovative applications of Artificial Intelligence tools and techniques such as deep learning, generative AI, natural language processing, image processing, cognitive automation, intelligent process automation, reinforcement learning, virtual assistants and specialized programming
• Research and optimize AI technologies to enhance efficiency and accuracy of data analysis and create more efficient automation

Skills Required

• Google Cloud Platform

Experience Required

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 3+ years building production software systems, including 1-2+ years on ML/AI or LLM-based applications. Proven experience designing and deploying multi-agent or multi-service architectures in production — not just notebooks or demos.
• As one 2026 hiring analysis puts it, the job is closer to distributed systems engineering with a probabilistic component than it is to ML research or prompt tweaking .
• Strong Python proficiency, including async/concurrent programming, and experience with backend frameworks (FastAPI, Flask).
• Hands‑on experience with agent orchestration frameworks — LangGraph, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, or equivalent — for building stateful, multi-step, tool-using agent workflows.
• Practical experience building RAG pipelines: vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, or Qdrant), embeddings, chunking strategies, and retrieval evaluation. Cloud deployment experience, ideally Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Cloud Run/GKE, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub) or equivalent AWS/Azure services.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with cloud data warehouses. Containerization and CI/CD experience (Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions/Cloud Build).
• Experience building evaluation and observability pipelines for LLM/agent systems — offline eval sets, LLM-as-judge scoring, and tracing tools (LangSmith, Langfuse, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent) to track task success, latency, and cost.
• Understanding of LLM safety practices: guardrails, output validation, prompt-injection defense, and safe execution of AI-generated code/SQL (sandboxing, least privilege). Solid software engineering fundamentals: API design, testing, version control, security best practices.

Experience Preferred

• Experience with cost optimization and model routing — designing tiered pipelines that route between low-cost and high-capability models based on task complexity, and modeling per-conversation or per-task cost at scale.
• Experience deploying agentic systems with human-in-the-loop or multi-checkpoint validation workflows for high-reliability/high-stakes use cases.
• Experience with automotive, EV charging, IoT, or connected-vehicle telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar standards for tool/data integration across agents.
• Prior experience in a startup or 0-to-1 product environment, comfortable with ambiguity and fast-evolving requirements.

Education Required

• Bachelor’s Degree

Education Preferred

• Master’s Degree

Additional Information

• Architect and deploy the production multi-agent orchestration layer (interpreter/orchestrator, NL-to-SQL agent, visualization agent, RCA/RAG agent, report composition agent, notification agent), using modern agent frameworks with state management and checkpointing rather than ad-hoc loops.
• Design and productionize RAG pipelines (chunking, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, reranking) grounded in approved schemas, engineering documentation, and historical issue records.
• Own BigQuery integration and enforce safe, least-privilege, validated execution of LLM-generated SQL. Build CI/CD, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code for deploying agent services on GCP (Cloud Run/GKE, Vertex AI).
• Implement evaluation pipelines and observability/tracing for every agent (golden datasets, LLM-as-judge scoring, regression alerts) so quality is measurable, not assumed.
• Implement guardrails, prompt-injection defenses, and human-in-the-loop approval checkpoints to ensure correctness and safety before any output triggers downstream action. Design cost/latency optimization strategies, including tiered model routing (cheap filter models vs. high-capability deep-dive models) and caching.
• Integrate validated outputs with operational systems (Salesforce ticketing, driver/site-manager notifications) and report export pipelines (PDF/HTML/spreadsheet).
• Collaborate with data scientists to productionize prototypes (anomaly detection, diagnostic agents) into scalable, monitored services.
• Establish versioning, testing, and safe rollout practices (canary/shadow deployments) for evolving agent logic.

Additional Info At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet . We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories . Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra . We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years !

FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused .

We’ve differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest . Throw out everything you’ve heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Benefits

Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 , 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023! To view all of our open positions go to: https://www.fasttek.com/fastswitch/findwork

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fasttekglobal

Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fasttekglobal

Find us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fasttek

You can become a fan of FastTek on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fasttekglobal/

AI & Hiring Disclosure

We use AI tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as reviewing applications and identifying potential matches. These tools are designed to promote efficiency, consistency, and fairness, and they are always used under human oversight.

All personal data collected is used solely for recruitment purposes, and you have the right to know, access, or request deletion of your data at any time, subject to legal limits.

If AI will be used in a video interview, you’ll be informed in advance and asked for your consent, with the option to opt out.

Our tools are regularly reviewed to detect potential bias and to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and our commitment to inclusive hiring.

To learn more or exercise your rights, please contact us at [e-mail].