AI Engineer — Secure, Production ML National Defense

AI Engineer

The Opportunity:
As an experienced AI engineer, you know that AI systems are critical to understanding and processing massive datasets in an organization. Your ability to conduct statistical analyses on business processes using ML techniques makes you an integral part of delivering a customer-focused solution. We need your technical knowledge and desire to problem-solve to support optimizing organizational efficiency. As an AI Developer on our Air Power team, you’ll train, test, deploy, and maintain models that learn from data.

In this role, you’ll own and define the direction of critical solutions by applying cutting edge Agentic frameworks. You’ll be part of a large community of AI professionals across the company and collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, solutions architects, and product owners to deliver world class solutions to transform how the Air Force manages its day-to-day business. Your skills and extensive technical expertise will guide clients as they navigate the landscape of Agentic Frameworks.

Work with us to solve real-world challenges and define ML strategy for the Department of War.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• 2+ years of experience building production-grade software in Python, Type Script, or Java with APIs and data services, such as FastAPI, Flask, REST, Graph
  
  QL, or SQL, and software engineering fundamentals, including testing, code review, and CI/CD

• Experience developing and deploying AI-enabled applications, such as LLMs, RAG, Graph
  
  RAG, agentic workflows, or tool-calling, to solve mission problems in industry, government, or national security

• Experience building secure data foundations on enterprise cloud platforms, such as AWS, governed ingest and file exchange, data catalog and metadata, and data mesh-style data products to enable reuse across teams and bases

• Experience designing event-driven integrations and workflow automation, such as asynchronous messaging, job orchestration, or audit logging, to move from insight to action

• Experience implementing MLOps or Dev Sec Ops  practices, such as CI/CD, containerization, automated testing, or model evaluation and monitoring, in constrained or regulated environments

• Secret clearance

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Data Science

Nice If You Have:

• Experience working with geospatial or 3D data, such as point clouds, LiDAR, or photogrammetry, digital-twin, or facility and asset data models

• Experience with knowledge-centric data systems, such as vector databases, knowledge graphs, or semantic search, to improve information findability and decision support

• Experience integrating sensor streams or IoT telemetry and edge-to-cloud data flows, such as Kafka, NATS, or Rabbit
  
  MQ for asset monitoring and situational awareness

• Experience deploying software and data or ML pipelines in disconnected, air-gapped, or classified environments

• Experience with cross-domain data handling constraints

• Experience with Kubernetes or Open Shift, cloud-native patterns, and Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform, in DoD or IL environments

• Experience with RMF or STIG-aligned delivery

• Experience with AI-assisted software development tools and practices, such as code copilots, automated tests, or secure-by-design patterns, to increase delivery velocity responsibly

• Experience developing computer vision and multimodal analytics pipelines, such as imagery segmentation or classification, point cloud processing, and report generation, and integrating outputs into downstream workflows

• Experience partnering with domain SMEs, such as civil engineers, to translate tacit knowledge into explicit playbooks, decision logic, and human-in-the-loop tools that improve proficiency and consistency

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information;
Secret clearance is required.

Compensation

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