Role: AI Engineer
Employment: Contract, 90 - 120 days
Location: In-office in Austin
The 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- 120-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.
Potential to transition into Permanent
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 - 120 days establishes the architecture, governance, and first wave of tools that the platform will grow from.
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.
Compensation
$120 - $125 hourly
Skills Required
- Proven experience designing and shipping AI or LLM-powered tools in production
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to independently build, integrate, and deploy applications
- Hands-on experience with modern AI platforms and APIs
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation patterns
- Experience with prompt and workflow design
- Experience with AI tool orchestration
- Experience integrating with CRMs, document platforms, internal databases, and reporting tools
- Working understanding of AI governance, data security, and privacy in regulated environments
- Ability to translate executive strategy into technical execution and drive initiatives with minimal oversight
- Availability for a hybrid arrangement based in Austin, Texas, including regular on-site presence
What We Do
Efinity Mortgage is a correspondent lender, headquartered in Austin, Texas. We assist in financing residential homes and construction accross 18 States, and adding more. Efinity Mortgage strives to change the industry by embracing TOTAL TRANSPARENCY in everything we do so that our employees and customers can enjoy the best experience and value possible. At the heart of our operations is a commitment to honesty and openness. We believe in being upfront about every aspect of the mortgage process, ensuring our clients and employees have all the information they need to make. informed decisions.
Why Work With Us
While we are not perfect, our culture embraces continuous learning and growing while we pursue perfection. We never lose sight of what we do — we help families realize the dream of homeownership while responsibly managing their largest debt and asset.
