**Only direct W2 candidates, please**
Claude AI Factory Builder
1. Overview
Seeking highly execution-oriented builders to design, develop, and deploy AI-enabled tools, agents, and workflows that scale across consulting delivery. This contractor role focuses on shipping working artifacts, iterating quickly, and operating effectively in ambiguous environments.
2. Engagement Details
- Role Type: Contractor
- Location: Flexible (Remote preferably from Dallas, TX or Austin, TX)
- Start Date: ASAP
- Initial Duration: 6–12 months (extendable based on performance)
3. Role Summary
The AI Factory Builder will break apart real consulting workflows, identify leverage points for automation or augmentation, and build AI-powered solutions, including Claude Code-based agents and other GenAI tools. Success is measured by shipped assets, adoption, and measurable delivery impact.
4. Required Profile Characteristics (Revised) Demonstrated Builders (Execution-First Mindset)
- Proven track record of shipping production-grade GenAI/AI solutions, not just POCs
- Clear ownership of end-to-end lifecycle: problem framing → architecture → development → deployment → iteration
- Ability to articulate real impact (usage scale, latency improvements, cost reduction, accuracy gains, business outcomes)
- Experience building usable tools/products, not just models or notebooks
Applied GenAI & Claude Expertise (Hands-on, Production-Level)
- Strong hands-on experience with Claude (Claude 2 / Claude 3 – Sonnet, Opus) in real-world applications
- Deep understanding of prompt engineering, structured outputs, guardrails, and hallucination mitigation
- Experience designing and implementing RAG pipelines (chunking strategies, hybrid retrieval, reranking, context optimization)
- Familiarity with Anthropic-specific capabilities (system prompts, tool use, streaming, safety patterns)
- Experience integrating Claude with enterprise systems, APIs, and data platforms
Agentic Workflows & Orchestration
- Hands-on experience building agent-based or multi-step reasoning systems using tools like LangChain / LangGraph (or equivalent)
- Ability to design modular workflows (retrieval → reasoning → tool execution → validation → response generation)
- Experience with tool-calling agents, API integrations, and decision-driven workflows
- Understanding of state management, conditional routing, fallback handling, and retry logic
- Experience building scalable orchestration systems, not just linear pipelines
Systems Thinking & Architecture Depth
- Ability to design end-to-end GenAI architectures (data ingestion, embeddings, vector DBs, retrieval layers, LLM orchestration)
- Experience with vector databases (FAISS, Pinecone, OpenSearch, etc.) and hybrid search patterns
- Understanding of performance trade-offs (latency vs accuracy vs cost vs context size)
- Familiarity with evaluation frameworks, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop validation
- Experience deploying scalable systems using APIs, microservices, and cloud platforms
Product + Execution Hybrid (Builder Mindset)
- Ability to take ambiguous consulting problems and translate them into working AI solutions
- Strong bias toward rapid prototyping and iteration over over-engineering
- Focus on delivering usable outputs quickly, then improving based on feedback
- Comfortable working without detailed specs or rigid requirements
- Ability to think in terms of user workflows, adoption, and usability, not just technical correctness
Communication & Ownership
- Ability to clearly explain architecture, trade-offs, and decisions in simple terms
- Strong communication when working with non-technical stakeholders
- Confidence in discussing their own contributions vs team contributions
- Proactive, self-driven, and comfortable operating independently
Ideal Candidate:
- Strong “builder DNA” with real shipped GenAI systems
- Deep hands-on Claude + RAG + agentic workflows experience
- Combines engineering depth + product thinking
- Comfortable with ambiguity, ownership, and fast iteration cycles
- Clear, confident communicator who can defend design decisions
**Only direct W2 candidates, please**