El Paso AI Engineer — Senior, Veteran-Led, Available
I am a senior AI engineer in El Paso, Texas. An AI engineer designs, builds, and operates AI systems in production. I emphasize the production-operations side: eval harnesses, monitoring, deploy pipelines. Single-principal delivery, 25 years in computer science, U.S. Army veteran. Houston-anchored, El Paso buyers served remote with kickoff travel available for engagements that justify it.
El Paso as a buyer market for AI engineer work
Fort Bliss, the Medical Center of the Americas, downtown, the Mesa Street corridor — El Paso runs on military, healthcare, and cross-border trade. The dominant verticals are Fort Bliss military-adjacent contracting, healthcare (UMC, Las Palmas), cross-border logistics with Ciudad Juárez.
What I ship as a El Paso AI Engineer
Production AI engineering — eval harnesses, observability, MLOps, drift detection, cost guardrails, deploy / rollback runbooks. The engagement shape adapts to which El Paso vertical the buyer operates in — Fort Bliss military-adjacent contracting, healthcare (UMC, Las Palmas), cross-border logistics with Ciudad Juárez each have their own compliance posture, deploy posture, and procurement posture.
Who hires me as a El Paso AI Engineer
Buyers across Fort Bliss military-adjacent contracting, healthcare (UMC, Las Palmas), cross-border logistics with Ciudad Juárez. The credential stack — 25 years computer science, B.S. CS from the University of Houston, U.S. Army veteran — registers consistently across El Paso verticals. The single-principal accountability is the load-bearing differentiator: the engineer in the scoping call is the engineer writing the code.
How a El Paso engagement is scoped
Scoping call (free, 30 minutes). Written specification (1-2 weeks, paid). Two-week sprints with a working demo at the end of each. Pest tests alongside features. Handover with runbook and 30-day post-launch support window. Day-to-day work is remote; kickoff travel to El Paso for engagements that justify it.
The national AI engineer page
The AI engineer practice across the country, with the full scope detail, lives on the AI Engineer for Hire page. This page is the El Paso-specific entry — same practice, same engineer, El Paso-anchored copy.
Are you available for El Paso engagements?
Yes — one engagement at a time, fully present. Day-to-day work is remote; flying in for a 1-2 day kickoff workshop is workable for engagements that justify it.
What is your hourly rate?
Bespoke, scoped per engagement, written into SOW before contract. Pricing depends on engagement shape — hourly retainer, fixed-scope project, or agency white-label all have different rate cards. The scoping call produces a written total before anything is signed.
Do you work with Fort Bliss military-adjacent contracting buyers in El Paso?
Yes — that is one of the largest El Paso verticals I work in. The engagement shape adapts to the compliance, deploy, and procurement constraints specific to Fort Bliss military-adjacent contracting.
How is this different from the national AI engineer page?
Same practice, same engineer, same engagement shape — El Paso-anchored. This page exists for buyers searching by city; the national page lives at /ai-engineer with the full role scope detail.
Scope This Engagement
Single principal, plan first, working code on every checkpoint.
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