Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer (SWE-2)

Leidos; Linthicum (MD); On-site; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos seeks a highly skilled software engineer to join our Kudu Dynamics team in Linthicum, MD. You will design, develop, and maintain LLM orchestration frameworks that coordinate static analyzers, RAG systems, and automated testing pipelines for mission-critical applications.

Requirements include a Bachelor's degree plus 5+ years of relevant experience, proficiency in Python, LLM integration, and data engineering, plus experience with relational and vector databases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus five years of relevant experience or equivalent.
• Proficiency in Python, LLM integration, and data engineering.
• Experience with static analyzers, RAG framework, and relational and vector databases.
• Familiarization with Agile, Git, Jira, and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with technical leadership to design, develop, and maintain LLM orchestration frameworks coordinating static analyzers, RAG systems, and automated testing pipelines.
• Develop and optimize data preprocessing pipelines to ingest, clean, transform, and vectorize product documentation, source code, and test results for LLM consumption.
• Design and implement database solutions to support RAG architectures, artifact storage, audit trails, and metadata management.
• Work with systems engineers to architect and deploy networked AI tools within secure enclaves and perform performance profiling, optimization, and scalability analysis.
• Support security assessments and authority to operate (ATO) processes.

Skills

Python

LLM integration

Data engineering

Static analyzers

RAG framework

Relational databases

Vector databases

Agile

Git

Jira

Confluence

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Git

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Description

Who We Are:
Kudu Dynamics is Leidos Owned Company, forged out of a decade of experience in computer network operations and staffed with talent who have built, overseen, and enhanced capabilities throughout the entire USG arsenal. Our team of hackers and engineers have experience spanning centuries of research, development, and operations missions - across desktop, mobile, IoT, and embedded platforms. Kudu Dynamics, a Leidos company is uniquely qualified to anticipate tomorrow’s threats and build the next generation of capabilities.

Job Responsibilities/Qualifications:

• Mission Focus: Collaborate closely with technical leadership to design, develop, and maintain LLM orchestration frameworks that coordinate static analyzers, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and automated testing pipelines. Develop and optimize data preprocessing pipelines to ingest, clean, transform, and vectorize product documentation, source code, and test results for LLM consumption. Design and implement database solutions to support RAG architectures, artifact storage, audit trails, and metadata management.

• Technical Proficiency: Collaboratively work with systems engineers to architect and deploy networked AI tools within secure enclaves and conduct performance profiling, optimization, and scalability analysis of mission systems. Support security assessments and authority to operate (ATO) processes.

• Qualifications: Bachelor's degree plus five (5) years of relevant experience or equivalent. Proficiency in Python, LLM integration, and data engineering. Experience with static analyzers, RAG framework, and relational and vector databases. Familiarization with Agile, Git, Jira, and Confluence.

• Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.

• Desirable Skills: Familiarization with RUST, Claude Code, Codex, and CI/CD.

Original Posting:

July 24, 2026

Pay Range:

Pay Range $87,100.00 - $157,450.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

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