AI Engineer

AI Engineer
- Entry to Expert Level (Maryland) AI Engineer
- Entry to Expert Level (Maryland)
Fort George G. Meade Complex, MD
Pay Plan: GG , Grade: 07/1 to 15/10
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Job Posting: 1262729

AI Engineers will:

- 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 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 AI solutions against mission requirements and produce actionable recommendations.

As an AI Engineer at NSA, you will design and implement mission-critical AI systems that keep the agency at the cutting edge of intelligence collection, processing and reporting to keep the nation safe. You'll apply your expertise in data science, plus software, data and systems engineering to build, deploy and maintain AI systems at scale while addressing the entire AI life cycle, including infrastructure management, efficient model training, production deployment, performance monitoring and continuous optimization.

Depending on your experience level, you will be assigned to a mission office or enrolled in the three-year Data Science Development Program, which will both broaden and specialize your AI engineering skills through courses and working in a variety of mission offices (each for several months). In either case, you will work with NSA experts in AI engineering, related technical domains and specialized subject areas.

You'll have opportunities to participate in internal technical round tables and attend technical conferences with experts from industry and academia.

The qualifications listed are the minimum acceptable to be considered for the position.

For all of the Engineering degrees, if program is not ABET accredited, it must include specified coursework.
** Specified coursework includes courses in differential and integral calculus and 5 of the following 18 areas: (a) statics or dynamics, (b) strength of materials/stress-strain relationships, (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics, (d) thermodynamics, (e) electromagnetic fields, (f) nature and properties of materials/relating particle and aggregate structure to properties, (g) solid state electronics, (h) microprocessor applications, (i), computer systems, (j) signal processing, (k) digital design, (l) systems and control theory, (m) circuits or generalized circuits, (n) communication systems, (o) power systems, (p) computer networks, (q) software development, (r) Any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, or soil mechanics.

ENTRYNote that different degree fields have different requirements as described below.

For degrees in Computer Science or Engineering, entry is with an Associate's degree plus 2 years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor's degree and no experience, or a Master's degree and no experience.

For degrees in Information Systems, Information Technology, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Applied Statistics,…