Role:
AI Solutions Architect (AI Forward Deployed Engineer)Employment:
Contract, 90-dayLocation:
Preferred Hybrid in Austin, TXThe Opportunity:Efinity Mortgage is a growing mortgage lending operation preparing to scale production without scaling headcount at the same rate. We are launching a
Digital Workforce Initiative: a focused, 90-day effort to stand up a secure enterprise AI strategy and to build and deploy high-impact automation across our departments: underwriting, processing, compliance, finance, recruiting, marketing, and executive management.
We are looking for a hands-on
Contract AI Solutions Architect to lead this initiative end-to-end - from assessment and architecture through to building production-ready tools and enabling our staff to use them. We want a builder who can pair strategic thinking with working software inside a regulated mortgage environment.
The Mission:The goal is not simply to deploy AI tools. The goal is to create a digital workforce that augments our people across underwriting, processing, compliance, finance, recruiting, marketing, and executive management - increasing capacity and quality while reducing manual effort and vendor dependence. Over the long term, this initiative lays the foundation for an internal "Efinity AI" platform: a durable, owned capability rather than a collection of disconnected point solutions. Your work in these 90 days establishes the architecture, governance, and first wave of tools that the platform will grow from.
Compensation:$120 - $125 hourly
Responsibilities:Scope of Work: Assess - Conduct an AI opportunity assessment across departments, prioritizing by impact, feasibility, and risk.
- Map current workflows, systems, and data sources, including key vendor platforms in use today.
- Identify the highest-leverage automation candidates and sequence them into a build plan.
Architect - Define an enterprise AI roadmap that connects near-term wins to the long-term Efinity AI platform vision.
- Establish a security and governance framework appropriate for a regulated mortgage operation (data handling, access control, model usage policies, auditability, and vendor risk).
- Select the model, tooling, and integration approach, balancing capability, cost, and control.
Build - Develop 10-15 production-ready AI tools targeting the prioritized opportunities.
- Integrate tools into existing systems and workflows so they fit how staff actually work.
- Build for maintainability and handoff - documented, supportable, and owned internally after the engagement.
Enable - Create a staff training and adoption plan, and lead hands-on enablement for the teams using each tool.
- Define how success is measured and instrument the tools so impact can be tracked over time.
- Hand off documentation, architecture decisions, and a forward roadmap to internal owners.
Key Deliverables - An enterprise AI roadmap aligned to the long-term Efinity AI platform vision.
- A security and governance framework suitable for a regulated mortgage operation.
- A prioritized AI opportunity assessment across departments.
- 10-15 production-ready AI tools, integrated and documented.
- A staff training and adoption plan, with hands-on enablement delivered.
- A clean internal handoff: documentation, architecture decisions, and a forward roadmap.
Qualifications:Who We\'re Looking For:- Proven experience designing and shipping AI/LLM-powered tools in production - not just prototypes or proofs of concept.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: ability to build, integrate, and deploy working applications independently.
- Hands-on experience with modern AI platforms and APIs, retrieval/RAG patterns, prompt and workflow design, and AI tool orchestration.
- Experience integrating with existing business systems (CRMs, document platforms, internal databases, reporting tools).
- A working understanding of AI governance, data security, and privacy - and the judgment to apply it in a regulated environment.
- The ability to translate between executive strategy and technical execution, and to drive an initiative with minimal oversight.
- Availability for a hybrid arrangement based in Austin, TX, including regular on-site presence.
About CompanyCandidates should be prepared to sign a confidentiality
on-disclosure agreement and to work within Efinity Mortgage's data security policies.
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Compensation details: 120-125 Hourly Wage
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