AI Data Engineer - Consultant - Deloitte - New Orleans, LA
Deloitte
AI EngineerConsultant
Our Deloitte Human Capital team transforms technology platforms, drives innovation, and helps make a significant impact on our clients' success. We are hiring an AI Engineer to build and operate the data, features, and GenAI foundations that power Human Capital AI products and analytics. You will work with an AI Data Engineer (data ingestion, curation, governance, platform foundations) and a Lead AI Solutions Architect (end-to-end solution architecture, integration patterns, non-functional requirements), partnering closely with product, data science/ML, security, and platform engineering to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable AI solutions.
This role is hands-on and delivery-oriented: you will ship production pipelines and services that support model training, real-time inference, and LLM applications using Claude-, GPT/Codex-, and Gemini-class models, and more implemented with strong governance, observability, and cost/performance discipline.
Recruiting for this role ends on August 30, 2026Work You'll Do:
As an AI Engineer Consultant, you will design, build, and run the trusted, governed data + feature + retrieval layer used by AI/ML and GenAI solutions. You will deliver reproducible datasets and features, operationalize quality and lineage, and enable secure consumption patterns for both predictive ML and LLM-based experiences.Key Responsibilities:
Partner with the Lead AI Solutions Architect and AI Data Engineer to design, build, and deploy secure, scalable AI solutions (APIs, services, pipelines, containers/serverless) that meet availability, performance, and security requirements.
Build and operationalize LLM-enabled products (copilots, HR knowledge assistant, summarization, policy Q&A) using Claude/GPT(Codex)/Gemini, including prompt/context patterns and tool/function calling.
Implement RAG and document intelligence patterns (ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector/hybrid search) plus evaluation and retrieval telem