Senior AI Engineer Security Clearance

Overview

Hoplite Solutions is seeking a motivated AI Engineer with a proven track record in software engineering and a deep understanding of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) techniques to support the AI and Emerging Technologies (AI&ET) mission. The engineer will work with mission stakeholders to capture requirements, assist in structured planning, and improve the certification process by introducing AI/ML tooling. The engineer will use AI/ML to develop tools and techniques to include fine tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) that assist in enhanced vulnerability identification and mitigation capabilities.

• Collaborate closely with technical leadership to design, develop, and maintain LLM orchestration frameworks that coordinate static analyzers, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and automated testing pipelines.
• Develop and optimize data preprocessing pipelines to ingest, clean, transform, and vectorize product documentation, source code, and test results for LLM consumption.
• Design and implement database solutions to support RAG architectures, artifact storage, audit trails, and metadata management.
• Collaborate with systems engineers to architect and deploy networked AI tools within secure enclaves and conduct performance profiling, optimization, and scalability analysis of mission systems.
• Support security assessments and authority to operate (ATO) processes.

• Bachelor's degree plus 8 years of relevant experience or equivalent.
• Proficiency in Python, LLM integration, and data engineering.
• Experience with static analyzers, RAG framework, and relational and vector databases.
• Familiarization with Agile, Git, Jira, and Confluence.
• Security Clearance:
  Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.

• Familiarization with Rust, Claude Code, Codex, and CI/CD.