Cognitive AI Engineer — End-to-End Data & Infra Analytics

Bigbear.ai; Corridor North (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

BigBear.ai is seeking engineers to join a high-impact team delivering infrastructure awareness and analytics. You will own end-to-end feature delivery, from concept through production, and apply AI-enabled tools to accelerate analysis and solution development.

You will design full-stack applications, build ETL workflows, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to surface discrepancies and enforce best practices in infrastructure deployment.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline, or additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience developing data pipelines, ETL workflows, or data processing applications.
• Experience with Kafka and streaming analytics.
• Working knowledge of relational databases.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI/ML tools to accelerate data analysis and engineering solution development.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across technical and mission-focused teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack applications across frontend and backend systems.
• Build and maintain ETL workflows that reconcile requested infrastructure with infrastructure actually deployed.
• Develop scalable, reliable data ingestion and processing capabilities.
• Leverage AI and machine learning tools to accelerate data analysis, prototype solutions, and improve engineering workflows.
• Integrate data products and analytical results into user-focused applications and visualizations.
• Collaborate with full-stack engineers, data specialists, subject matter experts, and organizational stakeholders.
• Help identify discrepancies, policy violations, and deviations from approved infrastructure best practices.
• Drive features from initial concept through implementation, testing, deployment, and continued improvement.

Skills

Python

ETL workflows

Kafka

Data pipelines

Relational databases

AI/ML tools

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline

Tools

ClickHouse

Job description

BigBear.ai is seeking engineers to join a high-impact team delivering infrastructure awareness and analytics. You will own end-to-end feature delivery, from concept through production, and apply AI-enabled tools to accelerate analysis and solution development.

You will design full-stack applications, build ETL workflows, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to surface discrepancies and enforce best practices in infrastructure deployment.