Senior Data & AI Developer
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Job Location:
Seattle, OR - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 120000 - 150000
Posted on:
4 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About our Firm
Olson Kundig is a design practice founded on the idea that the built environment can serve as a bridge between nature culture and people and that inspiring surroundings have a positive effect on peoples lives. Our work spans the globe from huts to highrises private residences to museums academic and civic projects and places of worship.
As the firm grows so does the need for highquality data analytics and intelligent tools that support design excellence operational clarity and strategic decisionmaking.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Data & AI Developer to play a critical highimpact role at the intersection of data infrastructure business intelligence applied AI and organizational change.
This is not a traditional reporting role and not a purely experimental AI role. This position sits squarely in the middle: building trusted data foundations deploying AIenabled workflows and helping hundreds of professionals adopt new ways of working with confidence.
You will report to the Director of Data Analytics and serve as a primary bridge between the firms Data & Analytics team and the broader organization translating business needs into reliable usable analytics and AIpowered solutions. Success in this role depends as much on listening communication and judgment as on technical skill.
The team is at an inflection point:
What You Will Do
AI Tool Deployment & Enablement
Within the first 612 months you will have:
Experience & Education
AI & LLM Engineering
This is an opportunity to shape how a globally recognized design firm uses data and AI not as novelty but as durable infrastructure that supports better decisions better work and better outcomes.
What can you expect from us
Olson Kundig is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color ancestry gender age religion marital status military or veteran status citizenship sexual orientation gender expression or identity national origin disability genetic information or any other basis prohibited by law. Applicants with disabilities may request reasonable accommodations at any point in the employment process.
In compliance with Washington States Equal Pay and Opportunities Act (RCW 49.58.110) Olson Kundig provides transparent compensation information in all job postings. For this position based in Seattle Washington the annual salary is between $120000. and $150000. Final salary decisions are made based upon the extent and relevance of the candidates experience as well as internal equity and external market factors.
In addition to a dynamic and creative culture Olson Kundig provides a generous benefits package that includes 16 days of paid time off paid holidays health plan 401k match bonuses profit-sharing plans for qualified positions a monthly travel subsidy for public transportation and more.
Olson Kundig is a design practice founded on the idea that the built environment can serve as a bridge between nature culture and people and that inspiring surroundings have a positive effect on peoples lives. Our work spans the globe from huts to highrises private residences to museums academic and civic projects and places of worship.
As the firm grows so does the need for highquality data analytics and intelligent tools that support design excellence operational clarity and strategic decisionmaking.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Data & AI Developer to play a critical highimpact role at the intersection of data infrastructure business intelligence applied AI and organizational change.
This is not a traditional reporting role and not a purely experimental AI role. This position sits squarely in the middle: building trusted data foundations deploying AIenabled workflows and helping hundreds of professionals adopt new ways of working with confidence.
You will report to the Director of Data Analytics and serve as a primary bridge between the firms Data & Analytics team and the broader organization translating business needs into reliable usable analytics and AIpowered solutions. Success in this role depends as much on listening communication and judgment as on technical skill.
The team is at an inflection point:
- Transitioning from traditional BI toward a purposebuilt AI ecosystem
- Undergoing a major ERP replacement
- Scaling analytics capabilities to meet growing firmwide demand
What You Will Do
AI Tool Deployment & Enablement
- Build deploy and support the maintenance and updates of our firms custom-built large language model (LLM) for Project Managers currently in beta testing as well as the creation of new LLMs for operational teams (e.g. Marketing Legal Resource Planning Finance).
- Collaborate on the design and deployment of new AI tools for firm-wide use ensuring outputs are reliable interpretable and aligned to business needs.
- Serve as a primary resource for staff using AI productivity tools (e.g. Claude Cursor GitHub) answering questions providing guidance and developing training and onboarding materials.
- Assist in developing prompt engineering standards and AI workflow design guidelines for firm use.
- Create tools that Project Managers and Operational Departments use daily.
- Maintain existing Power BI dashboards to ensure accuracy performance and usability while looking for opportunities to migrating data into our LLM-powered analytics platform maintaining continuity during the transition.
- Build analytics models and data products that serve Projects Operations Finance HR Marketing Legal and Executive Leadership.
- Improve data accessibility and trust for project managers designers and firm leadership.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of a Single Source of Truth (SSOT) architecture using APIs and modern data integration patterns.
- Build and maintain data pipelines across structured and unstructured sources including project data finance systems resource planning BIM data and operational systems.
- Participate in data governance conversations during the firms ERP replacement including requirements gathering configuration input and data migration planning and execution.
- Define and enforce data quality standards documentation lineage and compliance practices.
- Create clear documentation onboarding materials and internal communications that support adoption of new tools and workflows.
- Support firmwide data and AI skillbuilding initiatives.
- Manage stakeholder expectations through transparent communication as systems and processes evolve.
- Contribute to a culture where data quality experimentation and thoughtful automation are valued.
Within the first 612 months you will have:
- Delivered 4 to 6 analytics and AI tools that are actively used across multiple departments
- Helped establish trusted data foundations during a major ERP transition
- Improved the firms ability to use AI responsibly and productively not experimentally
- Earned trust as a crossdepartment partner who balances speed quality and clarity
Experience & Education
- Bachelors degree in Data Science Information Systems Computer Science Business Analytics or equivalent experience
- 58 years of experience in data analytics analytics engineering business intelligence or related roles with increasing scope and ownership
- Advanced SQL skills including query optimization and data modeling
- Proficient Python developer: ETL/ELT pipelines REST API backends automation and AI application development; experience with pandas SQLAlchemy FastAPI and LangChain or similar.
- Handson Power BI experience (data modeling DAX deployment and maintenance)
- Experience architecting and building multi-system API integrations including authentication flows (OAuth 2.0 / SSO/SAML) and webhook patterns.
- Hands-on Git-based development workflows: branching code review CI/CD pipelines testing and production deployment.
- Experience designing and implementing data lake or lakehouse architectures using structured and unstructured data sources (e.g. Delta Lake Azure Data Lake Storage S3 or equivalent).
- Hands-on cloud deployment experience (Azure preferred AWS Snowflake Databricks): compute storage managed databases container services and identity/access management
- Experience working with messy realworld data and legacy systems
AI & LLM Engineering
- Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM applications: RAG pipelines vector store management (Pinecone pgvector or Weaviate) embedding workflows and API integration using Anthropic OpenAI or Azure OpenAI SDKs
- Experience implementing AI evaluation frameworks (e.g. LangSmith Arize or custom evals) to monitor model outputs detect drift and enforce output quality in production
- Experience deploying AI applications to cloud infrastructure (Azure AWS or GCP) including containerization (Docker) serverless functions and SSO/identity integration for enterprise tool rollout
- Strong listening skills and ability to clarify illdefined problems
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical peers nontechnical staff and executive leadership
- Proven ability to build trust across departments with competing priorities
- Experience with ERP systems in professional services or projectbased organizations
- Familiarity with data governance frameworks or formal data quality practices
- Experience working in AEC design or creative professional environments
- Background in internal training enablement or change management
This is an opportunity to shape how a globally recognized design firm uses data and AI not as novelty but as durable infrastructure that supports better decisions better work and better outcomes.
What can you expect from us
- A creative work environment and colleagues who are collaborative creative and challenging
- Opportunity to grow professionally
- Check our culture page to learn about life at Olson Kundig
Olson Kundig is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color ancestry gender age religion marital status military or veteran status citizenship sexual orientation gender expression or identity national origin disability genetic information or any other basis prohibited by law. Applicants with disabilities may request reasonable accommodations at any point in the employment process.
In compliance with Washington States Equal Pay and Opportunities Act (RCW 49.58.110) Olson Kundig provides transparent compensation information in all job postings. For this position based in Seattle Washington the annual salary is between $120000. and $150000. Final salary decisions are made based upon the extent and relevance of the candidates experience as well as internal equity and external market factors.
In addition to a dynamic and creative culture Olson Kundig provides a generous benefits package that includes 16 days of paid time off paid holidays health plan 401k match bonuses profit-sharing plans for qualified positions a monthly travel subsidy for public transportation and more.
All applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship and must already possess long-term work authorization.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
A collaborative global design practice whose work expands the context of built and natural landscapes.
