AI Architect
Slalom, LLC

Who You'll Work With

As a modern technology company, we thrive when we can apply innovative/ modern technology approaches to address challenging business problems. We enable our clients to learn from their data, create incredible digital experiences, and make the most of new technologies in driving their business and/or mission forward. We blend design, engineering, data, analytics, and AI expertise to build the future. We surround our consultantswith interesting challenges, innovative minds, and emerging technologies.

This role targets an AI Architect at the level of Consultant OR Senior Consultant and must be located within a commutable distance of one of our Norcal offices (San Francisco, Redwood City, or Walnut Creek).

What You'll Do

• Lead and participate in solutioning sessions, working hand-in-hand with business/client, translating business objectives and challenges into actionable machine learning/data science use cases and AI solution architectures.
• Design AI solutions which enable data-driven decision making (e.g., build statistical and machine learning models for trend analysis and forecasting to predict future business outcomes for a Fortune 100 company).
• Work with a team of data professionals to integrate diverse data sources, establishing a comprehensive and unified view of the client's data landscape.
• Efficiently synthesize large volumes of data, extracting meaningful insights in a structured and programmatic manner as needed.
• Leverage feature engineering and quantitative methods such as statistical modeling, machine learning, deep learning and generative AI to implement and validate AI solutions.
• Create effective data visualizations to explain complex data patterns and expected business value brought by the AI solution to non-technical stakeholders.
• Keep up to date with the latest developments AI and generative AI. In particular, understand different models and their applications. Recognizing how generative AI can securely and ethically fulfill business demands, identify gaps, or pioneer new innovations.
• Help manage workstream delivery teams (contribute to Agile process and project status reporting).
• Primarily: contribute to project delivery and maximize client outcomes. Occasionally: provide expertise during pre-sales. Sometimes: optimize our internal operations to help keep us a well-running business.

What You'll Bring

• Ideally, a Bachelor's/Master's degree in a quantitative field with 8/6+ years of experience designing and building: feature engineering pipelines and data science or artificial intelligence or generative AI training / inference pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in Python, R, SQL, and experience with libraries/frameworks such, pandas, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, and TensorFlow. Big data experience (ex: Hadoop / Apache Spark) is a nice plus.
• Experience with cloud and modern data science tools / platforms such as AWS/Sagemaker/Bedrock, GCP/VertexAI/Gemini, Azure AI Studio or OpenAI.

About Us

Slalom is a purpose-led, global business and technology consulting company. From strategy to implementation, our approach is fiercely human. In six countries and 43 markets, we deeply understand our customers-and their customers-to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact. Backed by close partnerships with over 400 leading technology providers, our 13,000+ strong team helps people and organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all. We're honored to be consistently recognized as a great place to work, including being one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For seven years running. Learn more at slalom.com.

Compensation and Benefits

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that includemeaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For the Consultant level, the base salary pay range is 114.000 - 161,000 and the targeted base salary range is 114.000 - 150,000. For the Senior Consultant level, the base salary pay range is 131,000 - 185,000, and the targeted base salary range is 131,000 - 170,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.

EEO and Accommodations

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.

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