Houston AI Engineer — Senior, Veteran-Led, Available
I am a senior AI engineer in Houston, 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, Houston buyers served remote with in-person discovery available.
Houston as a buyer market for AI engineer work
The Energy Corridor, the Texas Medical Center, Harris County, Fort Bend, and Montgomery — Houston is four economic verticals on one footprint. The dominant verticals are energy and oil & gas, healthcare and health-tech, Microsoft-shop enterprises, mid-market accounting.
What I ship as a Houston AI Engineer
Production AI engineering — eval harnesses, observability, MLOps, drift detection, cost guardrails, deploy / rollback runbooks. The engagement shape adapts to which Houston vertical the buyer operates in — energy and oil & gas, healthcare and health-tech, Microsoft-shop enterprises, mid-market accounting each have their own compliance posture, deploy posture, and procurement posture.
Who hires me as a Houston AI Engineer
Buyers across energy and oil & gas, healthcare and health-tech, Microsoft-shop enterprises, mid-market accounting. The credential stack — 25 years computer science, B.S. CS from the University of Houston, U.S. Army veteran — registers consistently across Houston verticals. The single-principal accountability is the load-bearing differentiator: the engineer in the scoping call is the engineer writing the code.
How a Houston 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. In-person discovery available in the Houston metro on request.
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 Houston-specific entry — same practice, same engineer, Houston-anchored copy.
Are you available for Houston engagements?
Yes — one engagement at a time, fully present. In-person discovery in the Houston metro is available on request; day-to-day work is remote-friendly.
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 energy and oil & gas buyers in Houston?
Yes — that is one of the largest Houston verticals I work in. The engagement shape adapts to the compliance, deploy, and procurement constraints specific to energy and oil & gas.
How is this different from the national AI engineer page?
Same practice, same engineer, same engagement shape — Houston-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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