AI Infrastructure Engineer - Scalable Cloud Inference

Black Eagle Defense; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 143,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Eagle Defense in Fort Meade, MD seeks a Software Engineer II - AI Infrastructure to design, build, and operate scalable AI inference infrastructure for mission-critical services across the enterprise.

You will work on AI model serving, RAG, autonomous agents, and cloud-native platforms, emphasizing IaC, Kubernetes on AWS, Python automation, and observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana. Mentorship and cross-team collaboration are expected.

Qualifications

• Eight years of SWE experience in similar scope required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline required.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize AI inference infrastructure at scale.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain production AI services including RAG and autonomous agents.
• Analyze requirements and define scalable, maintainable solutions for complex systems.
• Drive adoption of modern technologies, standards, and best practices.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and observability to improve platform performance.
• Automate provisioning, deployment, and configuration using IaC.

Skills

AI infrastructure

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

Observability

IaC

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Grafana

Job description

Black Eagle Defense in Fort Meade, MD seeks a Software Engineer II - AI Infrastructure to design, build, and operate scalable AI inference infrastructure for mission-critical services across the enterprise.

You will work on AI model serving, RAG, autonomous agents, and cloud-native platforms, emphasizing IaC, Kubernetes on AWS, Python automation, and observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana. Mentorship and cross-team collaboration are expected.