AI Engineer – TS/SCI Poly, Government-Ready

Parsons; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 158,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

401(k)

Life insurance

Flexible work schedules

Holidays

Job summary

Parsons is seeking an AI Engineer to provide technical advisory support for AI-enabled applications, tools, and workflows within federal solutions. You will guide design, evaluation, and advancement of AI systems, including LLMs, agentic workflows, and orchestration frameworks.

The role requires an active TS SCI w/Poly clearance and collaboration with government stakeholders, platform engineers, and mission users to ensure secure, reliable AI solutions.

Qualifications

• Requires active TS SCI w/Poly security clearance.
• Experience designing, building, integrating, or evaluating AI/ML-enabled applications or software tools.
• Familiarity with AI patterns including LLM-based apps, RAG, prompt engineering, agentic systems, and AI-assisted workflows.

Responsibilities

• Provide SETA support to government teams developing or assessing AI-enabled applications and tools.
• Advise on technical approaches for AI design, prototyping, integration, and evaluation.
• Assess solutions involving LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, agentic workflows, orchestration layers, prompt pipelines, and evaluation harnesses.
• Support review of architectures, development approaches, model usage patterns, and risk areas.
• Advise on AI engineering considerations such as latency, reliability, observability, testability, guardrails, data flow, and system integration.
• Evaluate and compare AI frameworks, agentic libraries, and experimentation harnesses for mission use cases.
• Assist with development of technical guidance, prototypes, engineering recommendations, and briefings for government stakeholders.
• Support test and evaluation activities for AI tools, including performance assessment and workflow validation.
• Collaborate with platform engineers, mission users, and leadership to keep AI efforts grounded and relevant.
• Stay current on rapid AI ecosystem changes and provide informed recommendations.

Skills

AI/ML applications

LangChain orchestration

API integration

Security clearance TS SCI w/ Poly

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Master's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

AutoGen

CrewAI

Haystack

LlamaIndex

Job description

Parsons is seeking an AI Engineer to provide technical advisory support for AI-enabled applications, tools, and workflows within federal solutions. You will guide design, evaluation, and advancement of AI systems, including LLMs, agentic workflows, and orchestration frameworks.

The role requires an active TS SCI w/Poly clearance and collaboration with government stakeholders, platform engineers, and mission users to ensure secure, reliable AI solutions.