AI Engineer

and the job listing Expires on February 14, 2026

At NSA, AI Engineering is a specialized discipline that intersects data science, software engineering, data engineering, and systems engineering, focusing specifically on the unique challenges of building, deploying, and maintaining artificial intelligence (AI) systems at scale.

AI Engineers combine expertise from each of these domains to address the entire AI lifecycle, including infrastructure management, efficient model training, production deployment, performance monitoring, and continuous optimization. As an AI Engineer, you will help design and implement mission‑critical AI systems that keep NSA at the cutting edge of intelligence collection, processing, and reporting.

• Lead or contribute to cross‑functional teams to develop and operationalize AI solutions that help solve our most challenging problems.
• Apply modern engineering techniques to design, develop, deploy, and maintain end‑to‑end AI workflows spanning model training, inference, and performance monitoring.
• Adapt and integrate diverse AI model architectures including computer vision systems, natural language processors, audio processors, large language models (LLMs), and multi‑modal frameworks to address complex mission‑critical challenges.
• Monitor and maintain AI products through systematic identification of performance degradation and computational inefficiency and address these challenges through regular retuning and fine‑tuning to ensure continued alignment with evolving mission needs and organizational goals.
• Maintain knowledge of current AI research and adapt emerging techniques to intelligence applications.
• Test and evaluate Al solutions against mission requirements and produce actionable recommendations.