AI Solutions Engineer, Federal Data Platform

Innodata Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 103,320 - 110,208; Full time

Job summary

Innodata Inc. in Washington, DC is seeking an AI Solutions Engineer to bring the platform’s AI capabilities to life, integrating synthetic data generation into pipelines and configuring an annotation toolchain for ML workflows.

You will work across the storefront, DataCard governance, and validation phases, configuring SAM 2, Frontier model APIs, and ICAM/OIDC authentication in a secure federal environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field required; Master’s preferred.
• 6+ years total professional experience, 4+ years hands-on AI/ML engineering.
• Experience integrating SAM 2 or equivalent foundation model for computer vision or video annotation.
• Experience with Frontier model API integration (OpenAI, Anthropic, or equivalent), including async job management and quality validation pipelines.
• Strong production-grade Python skills; comfortable with ML tooling and data pipeline development.
• Experience configuring AI-assistive features in annotation platforms or ML data tooling.
• Active Secret clearance with TS/SCI eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Configure and validate native AI‑assistive features across bundled platform components.
• Integrate and tune SAM 2 for full‑motion video annotation: object tracking, segmentation calibration, confidence threshold configuration.
• Implement Frontier model API integration for synthetic data fidelity validation: prompt engineering, response validation, quality scoring.
• Configure data‑layer DLP policies above the AFS‑managed DLP infrastructure substrate.
• Validate AI feature integration end‑to‑end across storefront, annotation platform, and DataCard write‑back during Phase C.

Skills

Python

AI/ML engineering

Foundation model integration

Async job management

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / ML / Data Science

Master's degree preferred

Tools

SAM 2

Frontier model API

ML tooling

Job description

Innodata Inc. in Washington, DC is seeking an AI Solutions Engineer to bring the platform’s AI capabilities to life, integrating synthetic data generation into pipelines and configuring an annotation toolchain for ML workflows.

You will work across the storefront, DataCard governance, and validation phases, configuring SAM 2, Frontier model APIs, and ICAM/OIDC authentication in a secure federal environment.