Senior AI Engineer - LLM Orchestration & RAG

Talentify; Maryland; On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

BigBear.ai is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to design, develop, and maintain LLM orchestration frameworks coordinating static analyzers, RAG systems, and automated testing pipelines. You will build data preprocessing pipelines to ingest and vectorize documents and code for LLM consumption, and design databases to support RAG architectures, storage, audit trails, and metadata management.

You will collaborate with leadership and mission stakeholders to ensure scalable, secure AI tooling, perform

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 8 years of relevant experience or equivalent.
• Active TS/SCI with Poly.
• Proficiency in Python, LLM integration, and data engineering.
• Experience with static analyzers, RAG framework, and relational and vector databases. Familiarization with Agile, Git, Jira, and Confluence.
• Collaboratively work with systems engineers to architect and deploy networked AI tools within secure enclaves and conduct performance profiling, optimization, and scalability analysis of mission systems.
• Support security assessments and authority to operate (ATO) processes.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain LLM orchestration frameworks coordinating static analyzers, RAG systems, and automated testing pipelines.
• Develop and optimize data preprocessing pipelines to ingest, clean, transform, and vectorize product documentation, source code, and test results for LLM consumption.
• Design and implement database solutions to support RAG architectures, artifact storage, audit trails, and metadata management.
• Collaborate with technical leadership and mission stakeholders to capture requirements and improve certification workflows.
• Conduct performance profiling, optimization, and scalability analysis of mission systems and AI tools.

Skills

Python

LLM integration

Data engineering

Static analyzers

RAG framework

Relational databases

Vector databases

Agile methodologies

Git

Jira

Confluence

Active TS/SCI with Poly

Collaboration with systems engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree + 8 years experience

Tools

Git

Jira

Confluence

Job description

BigBear.ai is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to design, develop, and maintain LLM orchestration frameworks coordinating static analyzers, RAG systems, and automated testing pipelines. You will build data preprocessing pipelines to ingest and vectorize documents and code for LLM consumption, and design databases to support RAG architectures, storage, audit trails, and metadata management.

You will collaborate with leadership and mission stakeholders to ensure scalable, secure AI tooling, perform