Senior AI Engineer – Federal AI, Governance & Cloud

Navitas Business Consulting; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Navitas Business Consulting seeks an experienced AI Engineer to lead design, deployment, and governance of AI/ML solutions within federal modernization programs. You will collaborate with enterprise architects, data engineers, and security teams to build scalable, compliant AI platforms.

The role emphasizes architecture governance, model lifecycle, data pipelines, and prompt governance across AWS and Azure. A Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility is required, with Masters preferred.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility.
• 5+ years of AI/ML engineering, data engineering, cloud architecture, or related work.
• Experience with AI governance, model lifecycle management, and data pipelines.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS/Azure) for AI/ML solutions.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain required security clearance.
• DOW 8140 certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support AI/ML architecture design and engineering across modernization initiatives.
• Develop and maintain enterprise AI architecture baselines and roadmaps.
• Contribute to AI-enabled system solution architecture with cloud-native services.
• Develop and maintain AI model governance frameworks and risk assessments.
• Design scalable data pipelines for training, inference, and monitoring.
• Assist in agentic AI systems including governance and human-in-the-loop.
• Establish prompt engineering standards and evaluation methodologies.
• Contribute to model fine-tuning pipelines and cloud-based services.
• Produce governance artifacts and deployment documentation.
• Support compliance reporting, AI inventory, and governance dashboards.

Skills

AI/ML engineering

Data engineering

Cloud architecture

Software engineering

Governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Python

AWS

Azure

SageMaker

OpenAI services

Job description

Navitas Business Consulting seeks an experienced AI Engineer to lead design, deployment, and governance of AI/ML solutions within federal modernization programs. You will collaborate with enterprise architects, data engineers, and security teams to build scalable, compliant AI platforms.

The role emphasizes architecture governance, model lifecycle, data pipelines, and prompt governance across AWS and Azure. A Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility is required, with Masters preferred.