Senior AI Engineer — GenAI, MLOps & Deployment

Society of Defense Financial Management; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

HSA / FSA options

401(k) and disability insurance

Job summary

Gridiron IT is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to support a federal program in Chantilly, VA. The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience building scalable AI/ML systems, GenAI models, and deploying them with MLOps pipelines.

Strong Python and cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) are essential, with knowledge of NLP, CV, or RL helping drive secure, governed AI implementations. The position emphasizes production-grade GenAI deployments, vector databases, embeddings, and

Qualifications

• Requires Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience.
• Designs, develops, and deploys scalable AI/ML systems and GenAI models.
• Experience with MLOps, CI/CD, containerization, and monitoring frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Designs, builds, and maintains AI/ML pipelines for training, evaluation, and inference.
• Develops APIs and microservices; optimizes models for accuracy, latency, and scalability.
• Ensures compliance with AI governance, documentation, and ethical standards.

Skills

Python

GenAI/LLM deployments

AI/ML

MLOps

APIs / Microservices

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

MLflow

Azure ML

Vertex AI

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Gridiron IT is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to support a federal program in Chantilly, VA. The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience building scalable AI/ML systems, GenAI models, and deploying them with MLOps pipelines.

Strong Python and cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) are essential, with knowledge of NLP, CV, or RL helping drive secure, governed AI implementations. The position emphasizes production-grade GenAI deployments, vector databases, embeddings, and