Artificial Intelligence & Cloud Engineer

Vets Hired; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Vets Hired is seeking an Artificial Intelligence & Cloud Engineer to design, build, secure, and scale AI-powered systems in cloud environments. You will develop production-grade AI applications and microservices, collaborating with data scientists, designers, and subject matter experts in an Agile setup.

The role covers RAG pipelines, vector databases, semantic search, and secure AI deployment, with strong emphasis on the integration of AI capabilities into user-facing products and scalable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• At least 2 years of production AI/ML/NLP development experience.
• Experience building multi-agent systems using LangGraph, AutoGen, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of RAG architecture, vector databases, embeddings, and information retrieval.
• Strong programming skills in Python or similar.
• Experience developing RESTful APIs.
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing AWS or OCI cloud services.
• Proficiency with Linux and CLI.
• Expertise in text analytics and prompt engineering.
• Experience with data normalization and cleaning.
• Active Secret security clearance.
• Current CompTIA Security+ certification or higher.
• Knowledge of AI security practices and model guardrails.
• Experience in Agile, cross-functional development.
• Strong problem-solving and quick-learning abilities.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable multi-agent AI systems.
• Develop routing and hierarchical multi-agent architectures.
• Build and maintain production-grade RAG pipelines.
• Develop semantic search and information retrieval systems.
• Design data preprocessing workflows and vector database infra.
• Deploy, secure, monitor, and maintain AI apps in cloud environments.
• Integrate AI capabilities into user-facing products.
• Collaborate with data scientists, UI/UX designers, and SMEs.
• Establish security best practices for LLM implementations.
• Protect data with secure handling and privacy controls.
• Implement AI model guardrails and security measures.
• Develop robust RESTful APIs for AI and cloud apps.
• Support Linux-based development and cloud environments.
• Apply text analytics, prompt engineering, data normalization, and data-cleaning.

Skills

Python

Multi-agent systems

RESTful APIs

Cloud deployment

Security clearance

Prompt engineering

Text analytics

Data normalization

Linux

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering or related

Tools

AWS

OCI

LangGraph/AutoGen

Job description

Job Summary

The Artificial Intelligence & Cloud Engineer designs, builds, secures, and scales AI-powered systems within cloud environments. The role combines artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud engineering, software development, retrieval systems, multi-agent architectures, vector databases, and secure AI deployment. The engineer will develop production-grade AI applications and microservices while collaborating with data scientists, designers, and subject matter experts in an Agile environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable multi-agent AI systems.
• Develop advanced routing and hierarchical multi-agent architectures.
• Build, optimize, and maintain production-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.
• Develop semantic search and information retrieval systems.
• Design data preprocessing workflows, chunking strategies, and vector database infrastructure.
• Deploy, secure, monitor, and maintain AI applications and microservices in cloud environments.
• Integrate AI capabilities into user-facing products.
• Collaborate with data scientists, UI/UX designers, and subject matter experts.
• Establish security best practices for large language model implementations.
• Protect sensitive information through secure data handling and privacy controls.
• Implement AI model guardrails and other AI security measures.
• Develop robust RESTful APIs supporting AI and cloud applications.
• Support Linux-based development and cloud environments.
• Apply text analytics, prompt engineering, data normalization, and data-cleaning techniques.
• Support cybersecurity risk management and system hardening activities.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging AI technologies and engineering practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• At least 2 years of production experience in AI, ML, or NLP development.
• Experience building multi-agent systems using LangGraph, AutoGen, or equivalent frameworks.
• Strong understanding of RAG architecture, vector databases, embeddings, and information retrieval.
• Strong programming skills in Python or a similar programming language.
• Experience developing RESTful APIs.
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing AWS or OCI cloud services.
• Proficiency with Linux operating systems and command-line interfaces.
• Expertise in text analytics and prompt engineering.
• Experience with data normalization and cleaning.
• Active Secret security clearance.
• Current CompTIA Security+ certification or higher.
• Knowledge of AI security practices, model guardrails, and secure data handling.
• Experience working in Agile and cross-functional development environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to learn emerging AI technologies quickly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with NAVSEA Cyber RMF processes and system security hardening.
• Familiarity with Rust, Go, or JavaScript.
• Industry-recognized cloud certifications, such as AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty or OCI AI credentials.
• Experience with open-source LLM evaluation and observability frameworks.