AI Engineer

Sharp Decisions; Herndon (VA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Central AI & Data Observability (AIDO) in Herndon, VA, seeks an AI Solution Engineer to bridge business strategy with hands-on engineering. You will partner with business units to identify high-value AI opportunities and build enterprise-grade POCs on the AIDO platform, ensuring observability and data integrity throughout development.

The role combines strategic consulting with technical delivery, involving solution design, ROI assessment, and rapid prototyping using AWS OpenSearch, RAG

Responsibilities

• Technical Consultancy: Discovery & assessment with business units to identify AI opportunities.
• Solution design translating requirements into scalable AI platform solutions.
• Create AI Value Scorecards to estimate ROI and LOE reductions for use cases.
• Guide teams in adopting Generative AI best practices and data governance.
• Rapid prototyping: Build prototypes in sandbox using platform APIs and services.
• Validate concepts with AWS OpenSearch and LLM orchestration.

Tools

AWS OpenSearch

RAG patterns

LLM orchestration

Job description

Organization: Central AI & Data Observability (AIDO)
Team: AI Platform Strategy & Services
Location: Hybrid – Herndon, VA

Role Overview

As an AI Solution Engineer, you will operate at the intersection of business strategy and hands‑on engineering. As a key member of the AI & Data Observability (AIDO) team, you will help Lines of Business (LOBs) become AI-enabled by identifying, designing, and implementing innovative AI solutions.

This is a dual‑role position that combines strategic consulting and technical development. You will work directly with business stakeholders to identify high‑value AI opportunities while also building Proof of Concepts (POCs) on the enterprise AI platform. Your efforts will help reduce operational effort, improve business outcomes, and ensure solutions are built with strong observability and data integrity standards.

Key Responsibilities

1. Technical Consultancy (Strategy)

• Discovery & Assessment: Partner with Lines of Business to analyze existing business processes, gather requirements, and identify opportunities where AI and automation can significantly reduce manual effort.
• Solution Design: Translate high‑level business requirements into practical, scalable technical solutions leveraging the AIDO Hub‑and‑Spoke platform architecture.
• Value Engineering: Develop AI Value Scorecards to estimate return on investment (ROI) and reductions in level of effort (LOE) for proposed use cases.
• Center of Excellence: Guide business teams in applying AI use cases using existing and planned AIDO platform capabilities while promoting adoption of Generative AI best practices and methodologies.

2. Rapid Prototyping & Development (Builder)

• Platform Mastery: Maintain a current development environment connected to AI platform APIs and UI services to stay ahead of new platform capabilities and releases.
• Informal POCs: Build rapid prototypes and perform technical validation in sandbox environments utilizing AWS OpenSearch, Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) patterns, and Large Language Model (LLM) orchestration.