DoD AI Engineer - Mission-Centric AI & Ops Lead (Hawaii)

SMX; Aiea (HI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid leave

Retirement

Job summary

SMX is seeking an AI Engineer to support a government client at Camp Smith, onsite in Aiea, Hawaii. The role focuses on designing, developing, testing, and improving AI-enabled systems that transform client workflows, knowledge management, and decision support.

The candidate should have a balanced technical background, military operational experience, and familiarity with Maven Smart System, cloud environments, and AI toolchains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in a related technical field.
• 5–8 years of relevant technical experience; military experience preferred.
• Experience developing AI-enabled systems, tools, workflows, or data integrations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and improve AI-enabled systems for client operations.
• Transform business processes into AI-integrated tools and workflows.
• Develop AI-enabled workflows and retrieval-augmented generation with trusted data.

Skills

AI-enabled systems

Cloud environments

APIs

Data pipelines

LLMs

Embeddings

Prompt engineering

RAG

AI evaluation

Military operational experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, AI, Data Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Palantir

Maven Smart System

Python

Job description

SMX is seeking an AI Engineer to support a government client at Camp Smith, onsite in Aiea, Hawaii. The role focuses on designing, developing, testing, and improving AI-enabled systems that transform client workflows, knowledge management, and decision support.

The candidate should have a balanced technical background, military operational experience, and familiarity with Maven Smart System, cloud environments, and AI toolchains.