AI/Machine Learning Engineer

Optimus Technology, Inc.; Fort Meade (MD); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

HRA

401k

Life insurance

Tuition assistance

Disability

Paid time off

Referral bonuses

Job summary

Optimus Technology, Inc. seeks an AI/Machine Learning Engineer to translate mission workflows into AI-enabled capabilities. You will design solutions with LLM-powered workflows, agents, or hybrids, and ensure reliable production integration with security/governance in classified environments.

You will collaborate with operators, analysts, and leadership to streamline tasks and improve access to data for rapid, informed decision making.

Qualifications

• Experience capturing user workflows and translating them into structured process maps or executable logic.
• Experience designing or implementing LLM-based agentic workflows with multi-step reasoning.
• Experience integrating AI systems with APIs and enterprise data stores.
• Proficient in Python.

Responsibilities

• Capture mission workflows and translate them into AI-enabled capabilities.
• Design and implement LLM-based workflows and agent orchestration.
• Collaborate with operators and engineers to ensure production readiness and security compliance.

Skills

Workflow mapping

LLM workflows

API integration

Python

Tools

LangChain

PyTorch

TensorFlow

CrewAI

Job description

Intelligence Analysts rely on multi-step workflows that are time sensitive, detail rich, and critical to national security. As an AI/Machine Learning Engineer, you will work directly with mission users to capture these workflows, document operational decision points, and translate them into effective AI enabled capabilities.

You will design and implement solutions that may include LLM powered workflows, agent based automation, or hybrid approaches depending on mission needs. Your work will streamline analytical tasks, improve data accessibility, and support rapid, informed decision making in high tempo enviornments.

You’ll collaborate with operators, analysts, developers, and mission leadership to ensure solutions integrate cleanly with existing systems, perform reliably in production, and adhere to security and governance expectations of classified enviornments.

Required Skills:

• Experience capturing user workflows and translating them into structured process maps, automation requirements, or executable logic.
• Experience designing or implementing LLM based on agentic workflows, including multi-step reasoning, tool integrations, and orchestration.
• Experience integrating AI systems with APIs, enterprise data stores, or mission platforms.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python.

Desired Skills:

• Experience engineering AI capabilities on premise or multi classification enviornments.
• Experience with AWS or Azure, including work in restricted or classified environments.
• Experience with AI/LLM development framework such as LangChain, LangGraph, PydanticAI, or CrewAI
• Experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, vLLM, or llama.cpp.
• Experience with cyber or intelligence workflows, operational data types, or mission oriented analytical processes.

Optimus Technology is a SDVO (Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned) small business founded in 2010. We are known for our exceptionally talented group of Engineers and Technical experts with superior knowledge and experience in Cyber Technologies and the latest technology trends. Our dedication in pairing the right Optimus Technologist with the right customer solution is at the core of our Partnership commitment and critical to the performance and satisfaction of our employees, the pinnacle of the Optimus culture.

Why us?

We strive to provide the best well-rounded benefits package available.

• Premium health, dental, and vision package
• Company funded HRA
• 401k company contributions
• Employer paid group term life insurance policy
• Tuition assistance and career development
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Paid time off
• Referral bonuses
• Company outings, giveaways & more

Optimus practices a policy of non-discrimination and is fully committed to the principles of equality in employment and opportunity for all employees. Employment decisions are made without regard to age, gender, race, religion, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, or any other non-merit based factor.