On-Site Production AI Engineer II

Kansas City National Security Campus; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Industry leading 401(k) match

Generous paid time off

Flexible work schedule

Tuition Reimbursement

Professional Certification & License

Mission driven culture

Job summary

Kansas City National Security Campus in Kansas City, MO is seeking an on-site AI/ML engineer to support the full lifecycle of AI—from end-to-end design and development through productionization and ongoing support.

Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into AI system specifications, design production-grade pipelines for training, validation, deployment and monitoring, and apply CI/CD along with modern orchestration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field.
• At least 2 years of relevant experience in computer science, data science, or related technical activities.
• Ability to travel 0–10% as required by business needs.
• Ability to work on-site in Kansas City, MO.
• Regular and reliable attendance is essential.
• United States citizenship.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI and ML models and algorithms using disciplined software engineering, including version control, automated testing, and thorough documentation.
• Design, build, and maintain production-grade pipelines for model training, validation, deployment, and monitoring, applying CI/CD and modern orchestration and deployment practices.
• Optimize model performance for latency, throughput, and resource utilization to support real-time manufacturing or business requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into AI system specifications, define service-level objectives, and provide technical guidance to data science partners.

Skills

Version control

Automated testing

Documentation

Travel flexibility

On-site work

Communication

ML concepts

DOE clearance eligibility

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field

Tools

Spark

Kafka

CI/CD

Azure

AWS

Git

LLMs / NLP / RAG

Job description

Kansas City National Security Campus in Kansas City, MO is seeking an on-site AI/ML engineer to support the full lifecycle of AI—from end-to-end design and development through productionization and ongoing support.

Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into AI system specifications, design production-grade pipelines for training, validation, deployment and monitoring, and apply CI/CD along with modern orchestration.