Senior AI Engineer - Enterprise Modernization & Automation

Peraton; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking experienced AI professionals to support the modernization and expansion of enterprise AI capabilities for a large federal customer. This role focuses on automation, analytics, generative AI, intelligent agents, software engineering, governance, and enterprise modernization efforts.

The selected candidate will design, develop, implement, integration, governance, optimization, and sustainment of AI-enabled solutions across multiple business and technical domains, ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, or related technical field with 16+ years experience or Master's degree with 14+ years related experience.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Experience with enterprise AI, ML, automation, analytics, or software engineering initiatives.
• Knowledge of generative AI, LLMs, AI orchestration frameworks, and intelligent automation.
• Experience with AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, AutoGen.
• Experience with APIs, microservices, cloud technologies, CI/CD, and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of AI governance, cybersecurity, data security, compliance and ethical AI.
• Ability to analyze complex technical challenges and provide scalable AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Support enterprise AI modernization initiatives aligned with customer objectives.
• Design, develop, and implement AI-enabled solutions using ML, LLMs, and automation.
• Develop autonomous AI agents capable of multi-step workflows.
• Build agentic AI architectures using LangChain, AutoGen, and orchestration tech.
• Develop APIs, vector databases, and scalable AI services.
• Implement MLOps, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud deployment.
• Integrate AI capabilities into enterprise apps via APIs and microservices.
• Support model training, evaluation, deployment, optimization, and sustainment.
• Develop dashboards, analytics, and executive visualizations.
• Support AI governance, security, compliance, ethical AI, and risk mitigation.

Job description

Peraton is seeking experienced AI professionals to support the modernization and expansion of enterprise AI capabilities for a large federal customer. This role focuses on automation, analytics, generative AI, intelligent agents, software engineering, governance, and enterprise modernization efforts.

The selected candidate will design, develop, implement, integration, governance, optimization, and sustainment of AI-enabled solutions across multiple business and technical domains, ensuring