Hybrid AI Solutions Engineer II: Data Platform

Apple Federal Credit Union; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401(k) with employer match

Paid time off and holidays

Volunteer time off

Tuition reimbursement and training

Job summary

Apple Federal Credit Union is seeking an AI Solutions Engineer II in Fairfax, VA for hybrid office days (Mon, Tue, Thu). You will design and deploy AI-driven data experiences using governed enterprise data, and own tooling choices, security, and deployment patterns.

You will collaborate with Data Engineering, Security, and Business partners to ensure scalable, compliant AI solutions, strong telemetry, and user enablement materials. Excellent verbal/written communication is essential.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of demonstrated, relevant experience in software engineering, data engineering, platform engineering, and/or applied AI engineering.
• Strong proficiency in Python (and/or C#) and modern engineering practices (Git, code reviews, testing, CI/CD, observability).
• Working knowledge of Azure and cloud-native design patterns (secure identity, networking, secrets management, scaling/compute, cost awareness).
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and data warehousing/lakehouse concepts; ability to safely operationalize natural-language analytics patterns using governed datasets and business definitions.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate tools pragmatically (build vs. buy) and ship production solutions in ambiguous environments.
• Demonstrated experience with RAG patterns, vector search, prompt engineering, and LLM output evaluation techniques.
• Familiarity with emerging agentic AI platforms and runtimes, with the ability to evaluate and explore available tools that support persistent agent execution, governance, and security.
• Demonstrated understanding of responsible AI expectations and ability to implement guardrails accordingly.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement staff-facing AI experiences that allow natural language questions and explainable answers grounded in governed data.
• Implement safe natural language → analytics workflows, including query planning, schema grounding, and response formatting.
• Ensure AI outputs include context (definitions, time windows, filters, confidence) to improve trust.
• Partner with Data Engineering to improve AI-readiness of enterprise datasets, metadata, and data quality standards.
• Own the selection and integration of AI tooling; develop reusable golden-path components (prompts, retrieval patterns, logging, adapters).
• Define interfaces between the AI layer and the governed data platform (Fabric/Warehouse/Lakehouse).
• Architect and own Azure runtime, compute, scalability, and observability for AI services.
• Ensure governance, security, and policy compliance for AI solutions; support audits and risk management.
• Create enablement materials and training to drive staff adoption of AI data agents.
• Operate as builder + evangelist to increase self-service usage and reduce manual lift.

Skills

Python

C#

Git

CI/CD

Observability

SQL

Azure

RAG patterns

Vector search

Education

BA/BS in IT/IS or CS

Tools

Azure

Vector search

LLM platforms

Job description

Apple Federal Credit Union is seeking an AI Solutions Engineer II in Fairfax, VA for hybrid office days (Mon, Tue, Thu). You will design and deploy AI-driven data experiences using governed enterprise data, and own tooling choices, security, and deployment patterns.

You will collaborate with Data Engineering, Security, and Business partners to ensure scalable, compliant AI solutions, strong telemetry, and user enablement materials. Excellent verbal/written communication is essential.