Mission AI Engineer — Secure, Production ML/LLMs

Noblis; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 91,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Noblis is seeking an Artificial Intelligence Engineer to work in a dynamic, mission-oriented environment in McLean, Virginia. You will collaborate with mission users, partner with data engineers, and deliver scalable AI capabilities aligned with mission objectives.

You will design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI solutions—LLMs, NLP, computer vision—in secure settings, while maintaining data quality, performing AB tests, and ensuring compliance with security standards.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and deploying production AI solutions for mission operations.
• Experience with LLMs, NLP, CV, and agentic AI in secured environments.
• Experience with prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, evaluation, and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with mission users to elicit, analyze, and translate operational requirements into AI/ML designs.
• Develop and deploy production-grade AI solutions including LLMs, NLP, CV in secure environments.
• Partner with data engineers to ingest and curate complex datasets for model training and evaluation.
• Build automated ML pipelines in Python with prompt engineering and RAG.
• Conduct A/B testing and production monitoring of deployed models.

Skills

AI system design

LLM/NLP/CV

Prompt engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Python

RAG

Job description

Noblis is seeking an Artificial Intelligence Engineer to work in a dynamic, mission-oriented environment in McLean, Virginia. You will collaborate with mission users, partner with data engineers, and deliver scalable AI capabilities aligned with mission objectives.

You will design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI solutions—LLMs, NLP, computer vision—in secure settings, while maintaining data quality, performing AB tests, and ensuring compliance with security standards.