Mission-Centric AI Engineer — Onsite Fort Meade

US National Security Agency/Central Security Service; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 87,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

US National Security Agency/Central Security Service seeks a senior AI specialist to design and implement mission-critical AI systems supporting intelligence collection, processing, and reporting. The role is based at Fort Meade, MD, onsite, with a salary ranging from 87,362 to 197,200 USD per year and pay level determined by education and experience.

You will lead cross-functional teams, develop end-to-end AI workflows, and optimize models for performance and security while staying current with

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing AI/ML solutions for mission-focused problems.
• Familiarity with end-to-end AI workflows including model training, deployment, and monitoring.
• Ability to work across CV, NLP, speech, and multi-modal AI systems; knowledge of LLMs helpful.

Responsibilities

• Lead or contribute to cross-functional teams to develop AI solutions for mission-focused problems.
• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain end-to-end AI workflows from training to performance monitoring.
• Adapt AI model architectures including computer vision, NLP, audio processing, and multi-modal systems.
• Monitor AI products for performance and efficiency, tune models as needed.
• Stay updated with AI research and apply emerging techniques to intelligence applications.
• Evaluate AI solutions against mission requirements and provide recommendations.

Skills

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

Python

C++

Java

Scala

TypeScript

Tools

SQL

NoSQL

Spark

Dask

Ray

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

US National Security Agency/Central Security Service seeks a senior AI specialist to design and implement mission-critical AI systems supporting intelligence collection, processing, and reporting. The role is based at Fort Meade, MD, onsite, with a salary ranging from 87,362 to 197,200 USD per year and pay level determined by education and experience.

You will lead cross-functional teams, develop end-to-end AI workflows, and optimize models for performance and security while staying current with