Junior AI Solutions Engineer - LLM & RAG Pipelines

Strategic Innovation Group LLC; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental

Vision

PTO

401(k) with match

Life insurance

Job summary

Strategic Innovation Group (SIG) is seeking a Junior to Mid-Level AI/ML Engineer to design, build, and deploy enterprise AI applications for federal clients. You will work with senior architects to develop LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, and agent-based AI systems in secure environments.

The ideal candidate is a recent graduate with strong coding fundamentals and ML knowledge, ready to contribute to production-grade solutions while adhering to governance and security requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong programming fundamentals in Python and data structures.
• Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, vector databases, or agent frameworks.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerization tools (Docker).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable AI/ML solutions, including LLM-powered applications, RAG architectures, and agent-based workflows in enterprise environments.
• Build and maintain end-to-end ML pipelines (data engineering, model development, deployment, monitoring, retraining) using Python, SQL, and MLOps practices.
• Develop AI applications using foundation models and cloud-native services across AWS and Azure.
• Design secure, auditable AI systems with governance and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable semantic retrieval and deliver robust AI solutions.
• Continuously monitor and optimize AI system performance.
• Establish scalable AI infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Document solutions and provide knowledge transfer for long-term adoption.

Skills

Python programming

ML fundamentals

Data structures

LLMs

Kubernetes

Docker

Prompt engineering

Cloud services

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Pinecone

Milvus

Qdrant

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Bedrock/SageMaker/OpenAI

Job description

Strategic Innovation Group (SIG) is seeking a Junior to Mid-Level AI/ML Engineer to design, build, and deploy enterprise AI applications for federal clients. You will work with senior architects to develop LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, and agent-based AI systems in secure environments.

The ideal candidate is a recent graduate with strong coding fundamentals and ML knowledge, ready to contribute to production-grade solutions while adhering to governance and security requirements.