Senior Artificial Intelligence; AI Engineer; SWE

Senior AI Engineer

Kudu Dynamics, a Leidos company is uniquely qualified to anticipate tomorrow's threats and build the next generation of capabilities.

Seeking a Senior AI Engineer to support the Technology Trending Solutions mission, leading the design, development, and deployment of mission-critical AI and analytics solutions within a highly governed environment. The ideal candidate has deep experience implementing analytic governance (e.g., AVG) and AI governance frameworks (e.g., AAA), and can ensure all models, data, and workflows are compliant, auditable, and aligned with customer and enterprise policy.

The Senior AI Engineer will integrate advanced AI capabilities through APIs such as OpenAI and AWS Bedrock, and build intuitive front-end experiences using technologies like EX, AWS Amplify and React. The role requires hands-on expertise with analytic development environments and cloud-native platforms (e.g., GMLearn, Container Yard, AWS Sage Maker, AWS EKS), as well as strong agile delivery skills using Scrum or Kanban and tools such as Jira and Confluence.

The candidate must be highly proficient with modern version control and model/code management using Git, Git Lab, Hugging Face, Bailo (or similar), and demonstrate a proven track record of driving AI solutions from concept through governed production deployment in sensitive, mission-focused environments.

• Mission Focus:
  Collaborate closely with customers to build AI workflows and develop analytics based off artifacts to use AI to flag data of interest and summarize.
• Technical Proficiency:
  Creatively leverage disparate data to fill knowledge gaps in user activities, collection efforts, and technology discovery.
• Qualifications:
  
  Bachelor's degree plus eight (8) years of relevant experience or equivalent. Proficiency with object-oriented languages (Python and Java) and experience with PySpark, Jupyter Notebooks, Kubernetes, docker, Elasticsearch, GHOST MACHINE, and Query Time Analytics.
• Security Clearance:
  Candidates must possess an active TS/SCI with Polygraph to be considered for this role.
• Desirable
  
  Skills:
  
  Knowledge of customer corporate tools and data repositories.

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Pay Range $ - $

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