AI Engineering Lead Washington, DC,

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Job Title:

AI Engineering Lead Job Category:
Information Technology Time Type:
Full time Minimum Clearance Required to Start:
None Employee Type:
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Travel Required:

Up to 10%
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* The Opportunity:

** We are seeking an AI Engineering Lead to build and lead a multidisciplinary team delivering secure, production-ready AI applications and agent-based solutions to support the United States Secret Service (USSS) contract supporting the Department of Homeland Security. The lead will provide technical direction across the software development lifecycle, from discovery and solution design through development, testing, deployment, and sustainment. The team will use frameworks such as Lang Chain and Microsoft Agent Framework to develop AI capabilities that integrate with enterprise data, applications, and workflows.  

This role combines hands-on technical leadership with functional team management. The lead will translate mission and business needs into a prioritized roadmap, organize work across AI engineers and supporting roles, and establish engineering practices that support quality, security, scalability, and measurable outcomes. The position requires strong judgment across the broader GenAI engineering stack; experience with a particular framework is valuable, but the ability to deliver and operate secure AI systems is essential.

** Responsibilities:*
* • Lead, mentor, and coordinate a multidisciplinary team that may include AI and software engineers, data engineers, product or business analysts, UX specialists, and Dev Sec Ops  staff.  
• Provide technical direction for AI applications and agentic solutions, including architecture, design patterns, framework selection, integration, testing, deployment, and ongoing operations.  
• Guide development using industry-standard agentic frameworks.

• Lead implementation of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool and API integrations, agent workflows, and other capabilities that connect AI models to authorized enterprise data and business processes.  
• Translate mission objectives and user needs into technical approaches, product backlogs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and a sequenced delivery roadmap.  
• Establish engineering standards for Python and API development, reusable components, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, and secure software delivery.  
• Direct evaluation of AI system quality, including accuracy, relevance, grounding, safety, and performance; use test data and user feedback to guide improvements.  
• Establish monitoring and observability for application health, model behavior, latency, usage, and cost; lead troubleshooting and continuous improvement.  
• Coordinate with cybersecurity, data governance, infrastructure, cloud, product, and mission stakeholders to address access controls, privacy, security, and operational requirements.  
• Manage team priorities, staffing and skill alignment, delivery dependencies, risks, and progress reporting; communicate decisions and issues to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.  
• Promote responsible AI practices, including appropriate human review, traceable outputs, data protection, and clear handling of uncertainty and failure conditions.  
• Familiarity with AI safety frameworks such as the NIST AI Safety Framework to support implementation of alignment controls in artificial intelligence LLMs and agents   
• Contribute to the development of the AI Safety/Alignment policies, procedures, etc., for ensuring ethical, controllable, and aligned artificial intelligence systems and agents  
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