DMHS AI Engineer

Job#: 3043232

Job Description:

AI Engineer

Location:

Remote

Clearance:
Active Top Secret

Pay Rate: $80-90 / hr

This organization is seeking a skilled AI Engineer to support critical risk decision initiatives on a greenfield data and AI platform within a secure environment. The successful candidate will build large language model (LLM) and document-intelligence capabilities, delivering hands-on solutions for near-term demonstrations. Responsibilities include creating portable, documented systems and executing a smooth knowledge transfer to the internal team. This engagement spans one year with an option to extend.

• Build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and document-processing pipelines on the Databricks lakehouse, including ingestion, OCR of mixed-quality sources, chunking, embedding, and retrieval.
• Develop LLM workflows for summarization, structured extraction, and evidence-grounded generation with source attribution.
• Generate synthetic document corpora with the fidelity and quality variation needed for meaningful performance evaluation.
• Establish the evaluation harness to measure retrieval quality, groundedness, structured-output validity, and manage human-in-the-loop review.
• Package deliverables as jobs and Asset Bundles tracked in MLflow, providing comprehensive documentation for operational ownership.

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline is preferred.

Experience:

Eight or more years of experience building applied machine learning, artificial intelligence, or data systems, with demonstrated delivery of personally constructed LLM and RAG systems.

Technical

Skills:

Hands-on experience with Databricks, Python, and large-scale document processing, including layout-aware parsing and OCR. Proficiency in local or self-hosted LLM serving environments, such as vLLM, TGI, Ollama, or llama.cpp, to run open-weight models in isolated or air-gapped environments. Experience in privacy-preserving synthetic data generation and government contracting is required.

• Experience building RAG systems within secure, authorized hosting environments or boundaries.
• Familiarity with federal data handling standards, compliance frameworks, or security controls.
• Proficiency with Databricks Vector Search, Mosaic AI Agent Framework, Agent Evaluation, Asset Bundles, MLflow, and Unity Catalog governance.
• Experience utilizing H2O tools, including h2oGPTe and Driverless AI.

This organization delivers advanced technology solutions to support vital public sector missions. Team members collaborate in a high-trust environment focused on technical excellence, continuous learning, and impactful innovation. Candidates who value structured engineering practices, transparent reporting of model behaviours, and collaborative knowledge sharing will thrive in this professional setting.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including Clearly Rateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

• medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection.
• We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure.
• Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a Support Linc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
• In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA.
• Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other…