Job Title: AI Engineer.
Client: IBM.
Rate: $75/hr-C2C
Location: Downtown, Houston, Tx.
Technical Skills
- Handson Databricks + Spark expertise (PySpark, SQL, Delta, Unity Catalog).
- Proven data engineering skills (ingestion, modelling, orchestration, performance tuning).
- Strong statistics/economics/data science fundamentals for market timeseries.
- Experience building LLM solutions (prompting, retrieval, agent flows; LangGraph, MCP) and integrating with trading data/services.
- Experience with CI/CD, Terraform, MLflow/feature stores, vector DBs, and governance (PII handling, data lineage).
- Excellent stakeholder skills; able to work ondesk with traders/analysts and deliver fast.