Fort Worth AI Engineer — Senior, Veteran-Led, Available
I am a senior AI engineer in Fort Worth, 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, Fort Worth buyers served remote with kickoff travel available for engagements that justify it.
Fort Worth as a buyer market for AI engineer work
Sundance Square, the Stockyards, Alliance Texas, the Cultural District — Fort Worth is aerospace, defense, and the rail-and-logistics anchor of DFW. The dominant verticals are aerospace and defense (Lockheed, Bell Helicopter), energy operators, BNSF and logistics, healthcare.
What I ship as a Fort Worth AI Engineer
Production AI engineering — eval harnesses, observability, MLOps, drift detection, cost guardrails, deploy / rollback runbooks. The engagement shape adapts to which Fort Worth vertical the buyer operates in — aerospace and defense (Lockheed, Bell Helicopter), energy operators, BNSF and logistics, healthcare each have their own compliance posture, deploy posture, and procurement posture.
Who hires me as a Fort Worth AI Engineer
Buyers across aerospace and defense (Lockheed, Bell Helicopter), energy operators, BNSF and logistics, healthcare. The credential stack — 25 years computer science, B.S. CS from the University of Houston, U.S. Army veteran — registers consistently across Fort Worth verticals. The single-principal accountability is the load-bearing differentiator: the engineer in the scoping call is the engineer writing the code.
How a Fort Worth 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 Fort Worth 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 Fort Worth-specific entry — same practice, same engineer, Fort Worth-anchored copy.
Are you available for Fort Worth 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 aerospace and defense (Lockheed buyers in Fort Worth?
Yes — that is one of the largest Fort Worth verticals I work in. The engagement shape adapts to the compliance, deploy, and procurement constraints specific to aerospace and defense (Lockheed.
How is this different from the national AI engineer page?
Same practice, same engineer, same engagement shape — Fort Worth-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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