AI Engineer (Remote)

AIToolboard; Fort Belvoir, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Financial and retirement benefits

Paid leave

Tuition assistance

Work-life programs

Dependent care

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton seeks an AI Engineer to design, train, and deploy AI systems at scale, focusing on LLM-powered pipelines and secure data processing for national security applications.

The role emphasizes production-grade ML, end-to-end model lifecycle, and collaboration with data, solutions architecture, and MLOps teams to deliver robust, scalable solutions across modern cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering, ML engineering, and AI systems development using Python.
• Experience building, deploying, and maintaining LLM-powered systems and complex data pipelines in production environments.
• Experience implementing advanced prompting strategies, LangChain or LlamaIndex AI orchestration frameworks, vLLM or TGI LLM inference engines, and tool calling or agentic workflows.
• Experience integrating AI components, including embeddings, vector databases such as LanceDB, pgvector, or Elasticsearch, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.
• Ability to translate early-stage prototypes into robust, scalable production systems.
• Ability to take ownership of system performance, continuously optimizing for latency, throughput, and high reliability.
• Clearance: TS/SCI preferred.

Responsibilities

• Train, test, deploy, and maintain ML models.
• Own direction of critical AI solutions for national security.
• Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, solutions architects, and MLOps engineers.
• Process data at massive scale using robust data pipelines and scalable architectures.

Skills

Python

ML engineering

AI systems development

LLM systems

LangChain

LlamaIndex

vLLM

TGI

Embeddings

Vector databases

RAG pipelines

Production systems

Latency optimization

TS/SCI clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Job description

# AI Engineer (Remote)Booz Allen HamiltonFort Belvoir, USInternship## About the RoleAI Engineer The Opportunity: As an experienced engineer, you know that artificial intelligence (AI) is critical to understanding and processing massive datasets. Your ability to conduct statistical analyses on business processes using ML techniques makes you an integral part of delivering a customer-focused solution. We need your technical knowledge and desire to problem-solve to support an enterprise-wide application and data capability.As an AI engineer on our national security team, you’ll train, test, deploy, and maintain models that learn from data. In this role, you’ll own and define the direction of critical solutions by applying best-fit ML algorithms and technologies. You’ll be part of a large community of AI engineers across the company and collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, solutions architects, and MLOps engineers to deliver world class solutions, including processing data and information at a massive scale.Your skills and extensive technical expertise will guide clients as they navigate the landscape of AI/ML algorithms, tools, and frameworks. Work with us to solve real-world challenges and define AI strategy for our national security customers.You Have: Experience in software engineering, ML engineering, and AI systems development using Python Experience building, deploying, and maintaining LLM-powered systems and complex data pipelines in production environments Experience implementing advanced prompting strategies, LangChain or LlamaIndex AI orchestration frameworks, vLLM or TGI LLM inference engines, and tool calling or agentic workflows Experience integrating AI components, including embeddings, vector databases such as LanceDB, pgvector, or Elasticsearch, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines Ability to translate early-stage prototypes into robust, scalable production systems Ability to take ownership of system performance, continuously optimizing for latency, throughput, and high reliability TS/SCI clearance Bachelor's degree Nice If You Have: Experience collaborating with MLOps, DevOps, and infrastructure engineers to ensure seamless model deployment and infrastructure scaling Experience working with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platforms and containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes Experience with underlying model architectures, inference optimization techniques, or fine-tuning open-source models Experience with distributed systems, streaming data such as Kafka, or integrating AI services into larger enterprise microservice architecture Security+ Certification Clearance: Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs.We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (annualized USD).Identity StatementAs part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. Candidate AI Usage Policy AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools.As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role. Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applica