Artificial Intelligence Senior Associate #1064136

FastTek Global; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & Dental

Vision

PTO

Long-Term Disability

Life Insurance

401(k)

Job summary

FastTek Global in Dearborn, Michigan seeks an AI Senior Associate to architect and deploy production AI/ML data products that transform high-volume engineering information into actionable insight.

You will work across applied machine learning, generative AI, data platforms, and cloud engineering to deliver scalable, observable systems with strong governance, reliability, and explainable results for engineering teams and leadership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production software, data, or ML systems.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Experience with cloud platforms and distributed workloads.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and operate reliable data products at enterprise scale.
• Develop embeddings, retrieval, and RAG workflows with observable patterns.
• Lead cloud architecture, containers, and CI/CD for secure deployments.
• Own system reliability from design to production and improve capacity planning.
• Deliver analytics and decision-support tools for engineers and leadership.

Skills

Python

SQL

Artificial Intelligence & Expert Sys

GCP

API

Software Testing

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Artificial Intelligence Senior Associate #1064136

Dearborn, Michigan

Job Description

• About the Role We are seeking a high-impact AI/ML Engineer to build intelligent data products that turn complex, high-volume engineering information into trusted, actionable insight.
• You will work across applied machine learning, generative AI, data platforms, and cloud engineering to deliver production systems used for search, traceability, analytics, and decision support.
• This role is ideal for an engineer who can move from architecture to implementation to operational ownership, and who enjoys solving ambiguous problems where data quality, scale, and reliability matter.

What You'll Own

• Architect, build, and operate reliable data products that ingest and transform diverse structured and unstructured information at enterprise scale.
• Create resilient orchestration and delivery patterns for batch and near-real-time workloads, with clear observability, alerting, and operational runbooks.
• Develop production Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems that combine semantic retrieval, structured data, and grounded responses for high-value engineering use cases.
• Design agentic AI workflows that decompose complex questions, select the right data sources and tools, validate results, and return explainable answers with citations.
• Develop and evaluate embedding, document-understanding, and multimodal inference workflows, balancing quality, latency, scalability, and cost.
• Lead cloud architecture, containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD practices for secure, repeatable deployment across environments.
• Own system reliability from design through production: investigate incidents, profile performance, eliminate failure modes, and improve capacity planning.
• Deliver intuitive analytics experiences and decision-support tools that make complex technical data useful to engineers, program teams, and leadership.
• Establish data quality, lineage, validation, and governance practices so users can understand where information came from and how much to trust it.
• Build incremental, restartable processing with checkpointing and recovery strategies that protect data integrity during long-running or partially failed workloads.

Skills Required

• Python
• SQL
• Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems
• GCP
• API
• Software Testing
• Data Analysis

Skills Preferred

• Data/Analytics dashboards
• Data Collection
• Data Integrity
• Java
• Data Acquisition
• Data Conversion

Experience Required

Senior Associate Exp: 3 to 5 years experience in relevant field

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production software, data, or machine learning systems, with strong Python and SQL skills.
• Professional experience with cloud platforms, managed data services, object storage, containers, and distributed workloads.
• Experience designing and operating scalable data pipelines or distributed processing systems for large and evolving datasets.
• Hands-on experience applying large language models to real products, including prompt design, structured outputs, tool use, evaluation, and production monitoring.
• Strong understanding of embeddings, vector retrieval, RAG architecture, model limitations, and techniques for improving answer quality and faithfulness.
• Experience with software engineering fundamentals: testing, code review, version control, CI/CD, observability, and secure development practices.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose difficult production problems using measurable evidence, experimentation, profiling, and disciplined root-cause analysis.
• Experience with workflow orchestration, job scheduling, or reliable batch execution frameworks

Experience Preferred

• Experience with agentic AI frameworks, tool-using systems, or multi-step reasoning workflows.
• Experience with managed generative AI, model serving, batch inference, or vector database platforms.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated cloud delivery.
• Experience extracting meaning from complex documents, legacy formats, technical diagrams, or other semi-structured content at scale.
• Experience in automotive, manufacturing, safety-critical, systems engineering, or another technically regulated domain.
• Experience building internal analytics products or developer-facing tools that translate complex data into clear decisions.

Education Required

• Bachelor's Degree

Education Preferred

• Certification Program

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-fashionedhard 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.

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!

AI & Hiring Disclosure

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

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