AI Engineer (TS/SCI with Poly) - Mission-Ready Builder

BB6 Defense; Columbia (MD); Presencial; USD 150.000 - 230.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

BB6 Defense seeks an AI Engineer in Columbia, MD, to provide technical advisory support for AI-enabled applications and workflows. This hands-on role requires building and evaluating AI systems, guiding teams on LLMs, RAG, and orchestration, with a focus on secure, reliable delivery for government use.

The successful candidate will advise on architectures, data flows, latency and observability, and will stay current with rapid AI ecosystem advances to inform mission-ready solutions.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science or related field.
• 18+ years with Bachelor's or 15+ years with Master's in CS/related field.
• Experience designing/evaluating AI/ML-enabled applications or tools.
• Active TS SCI w/ CI Polygraph security clearance required.

Responsabilidades

• Provide SETA support to government teams for AI-enabled apps and tools.
• Advise on technical approaches for AI design, prototyping, integration and evaluation.
• Assess solutions involving LLMs, RAG, prompts, and agentic workflows.
• Review architectures, model usage, and technical risk areas.
• Advise on latency, reliability, observability, guardrails, and data flow.
• Evaluate AI frameworks and experimentation harnesses for mission use cases.
• Develop technical guidance, prototypes, and briefings for government stakeholders.
• Support test and evaluation activities for AI tools and workflows.
• Collaborate with platform engineers, mission users, and leadership.
• Stay current on AI ecosystem changes and emerging tools.

Conocimientos

AI/ML development

Systems integration

Communication skills

Security clearance

Agentic frameworks

Software development

Tradeoff analysis

Educación

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering/Data Science

Master's degree in CS/related field

Herramientas

LangChain

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

AutoGen

CrewAI

Haystack

LlamaIndex

Descripción del empleo

BB6 Defense seeks an AI Engineer in Columbia, MD, to provide technical advisory support for AI-enabled applications and workflows. This hands-on role requires building and evaluating AI systems, guiding teams on LLMs, RAG, and orchestration, with a focus on secure, reliable delivery for government use.

The successful candidate will advise on architectures, data flows, latency and observability, and will stay current with rapid AI ecosystem advances to inform mission-ready solutions.