AI Engineer (TS/SCI) — LLMs in Secure Enclaves

Aperio Global; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 127,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental &amp

Retirement Plan (401k, IRA) with 100%

Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary &

Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick &

Short Term & Long Term Disability

Professional Development

(and much more)

Job summary

Aperio Global in Linthicum Heights, MD is seeking AI Engineers across SWE2 and SWE3 levels to advance our AI & Emerging Technologies mission. You will work with mission stakeholders to capture requirements and help refine the certification process by introducing AI/ML tooling.

You will develop LLM-based tools for vulnerability identification and mitigation in secure enclaves, designing orchestration frameworks, data pipelines, and scalable databases for RAG architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 5 years (SWE2) or 8 years (SWE3) of relevant experience.
• Proficiency in Python, LLM integration, and data engineering.
• Experience with static analyzers and RAG frameworks.
• Experience with relational and vector databases.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, Git, Jira, and Confluence.
• Active TS/SCI + Polygraph

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain LLM orchestration frameworks coordinating 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
• Conduct performance profiling, optimization, and scalability analysis of mission systems
• Support security assessments and Authority to Operate (ATO) processes

Skills

Python

LLM integration

Data engineering

Static analyzers

RAG frameworks

Relational databases

Vector databases

Agile methodologies

Git

Jira

Confluence

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Git

Jira

Confluence

CI/CD

Job description

Aperio Global in Linthicum Heights, MD is seeking AI Engineers across SWE2 and SWE3 levels to advance our AI & Emerging Technologies mission. You will work with mission stakeholders to capture requirements and help refine the certification process by introducing AI/ML tooling.

You will develop LLM-based tools for vulnerability identification and mitigation in secure enclaves, designing orchestration frameworks, data pipelines, and scalable databases for RAG architectures.