Remote AI/ML Engineer for Federal Mission Apps

Unissant; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Unissant, Inc. in the United States is seeking an AI Developer/Engineer to join our team supporting FEMA. This remote role concentrates on hands-on AI/ML to design, evaluate, and operationalize secure capabilities for mission programs across Azure, AWS, GCP, and enterprise platforms.

You will build RAG apps, chatbots, model pipelines, and scalable data architectures, implement MLOps/DevSecOps, and contribute to data governance and documentation. U.S. citizenship and FEMA suitability will apply.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related technical field required.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and productionize RAG applications, chatbots, document translation and summarization services, predictive models, anomaly-detection capabilities, and routing/optimization solutions.
• Evaluate new AI use cases and provide feasibility, architecture, cost, complexity, schedule, and solution-stack estimates.
• Select appropriate algorithms; prepare and engineer data; train, validate, tune, document, and monitor models.
• Define and maintain model-performance metrics, evaluation processes, monitoring, and improvement approaches.
• Integrate AI/ML models with full-stack applications and enterprise workflows through APIs, approved cloud AI services, and secure data pipelines.
• Implement MLOps and DevSecOps practices, including git-based workflows, automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and controlled deployments.
• Support AI security boundaries, ATO artifacts, data governance, role-based access controls, and model/application risk-management activities.
• Create technical documentation covering architecture, experiments, model performance, operations, and customer use.

Skills

Python

R

JavaScript

AI/ML

Data analysis

Education

Bachelors/Masters in CS/AI/ML/Data Science or related

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD

Git-based source control

Observability tooling

Job description

Unissant, Inc. in the United States is seeking an AI Developer/Engineer to join our team supporting FEMA. This remote role concentrates on hands-on AI/ML to design, evaluate, and operationalize secure capabilities for mission programs across Azure, AWS, GCP, and enterprise platforms.

You will build RAG apps, chatbots, model pipelines, and scalable data architectures, implement MLOps/DevSecOps, and contribute to data governance and documentation. U.S. citizenship and FEMA suitability will apply.