AI/ML Automation Engineer for Cyber Defense

Nightwing Intelligence Solutions, LLC; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

401k plan

PTO

Holidays

Job summary

Nightwing Intelligence Solutions, LLC in the Sterling, VA area seeks an AI/ML Engineer to support an onsite incident response for a U.S. Government customer. You will develop automation solutions to enable machine learning integration, focusing on agentic workflows and scalable analytic pipelines.

Responsibilities include building data pipelines, automating malware taxonomy, integrating AI/LLM with cloud services, and ensuring data quality while collaborating with analysts. A U.S.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship is required and ability to obtain DHS suitability.
• Active Secret clearance; TS/SCI preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in automation engineering, data engineering, or software development.
• Experience with data ingestion pipeline design on AWS.
• Strong Python skills and data manipulation libraries.
• Experience with AI/LLM configuration, tuning, and integration.
• Experience with ML pipelines and automation.
• Familiarity with APIs and integration technologies.
• Understanding of database systems and data modeling.
• Knowledge of version control (Git) and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop automated data pipelines for machine learning integration initiatives.
• Create automation workflows for malware sample collection, detonation, and taxonomy.
• Implement AI/LLM integrations with Databricks and other cloud services.
• Implement data integration automation between pilot and production systems.
• Support Automated Malware Analysis (AMA) platform development.
• Develop scripts and tools to automate repetitive technical tasks.
• Create data transformation and normalization automation.
• Support AI/ML data preparation and feature engineering automation.
• Develop monitoring and alerting automation for integrated systems.
• Implement API integrations for data sharing and workflow automation.
• Document automation solutions and maintain code repositories.
• Support scaling automation from pilot to production environments.
• Optimize automation performance and efficiency.
• Collaborate with analysts to identify automation opportunities.
• Ensure automation solutions maintain data quality and integrity.

Skills

U.S. Citizenship

Security clearance

5+ years experience

AWS data pipelines

AI/LLM integration

Python

M L pipelines

APIs & integration

Git & CI/CD

Education

BS in Computer Science or Data Science

Tools

Python

AWS

Databricks

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Nightwing Intelligence Solutions, LLC in the Sterling, VA area seeks an AI/ML Engineer to support an onsite incident response for a U.S. Government customer. You will develop automation solutions to enable machine learning integration, focusing on agentic workflows and scalable analytic pipelines.

Responsibilities include building data pipelines, automating malware taxonomy, integrating AI/LLM with cloud services, and ensuring data quality while collaborating with analysts. A U.S.