Senior AI Engineer: Mission-Centric ML/LLM Architect

Via Logic LLC

Fort Meade (MD)

On-site

USD 117,000 - 195,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off
11 Holidays
401K with match
Flexible schedules
Stock purchase plan
Upskilling

Job summary

Leidos is seeking motivated Senior AI Engineers to drive high-impact mission opportunities by applying AI/ML to complex datasets and analytic challenges. You will collaborate with mission stakeholders to translate operational needs into secure, scalable AI capabilities spanning LLMs, RAG, and agentic AI.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, lifecycle management, and secure deployment. The ideal candidate combines strong AI/ML fundamentals with experience delivering end-to-end AI solutions,

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science and 8+ years of relevant AI/ML experience.
  • Experience throughout the AI lifecycle from data ingestion to deployment and sustainment.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to translate operational needs into AI/ML solutions.
  • Design and develop AI/ML applications using Python and modern frameworks.
  • Develop LLM applications with prompt engineering, embeddings, and retrieval techniques.
  • Build end-to-end AI capabilities: data pipelines, evaluation, deployment, and sustenance.

Skills

AI/ML fundamentals
Python proficiency
Transformer architectures
Prompt engineering
LMI/LLMs
Retrieval-augmented generation
Data processing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Tools

Python

Job description

Leidos is seeking motivated Senior AI Engineers to drive high-impact mission opportunities by applying AI/ML to complex datasets and analytic challenges. You will collaborate with mission stakeholders to translate operational needs into secure, scalable AI capabilities spanning LLMs, RAG, and agentic AI.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, lifecycle management, and secure deployment. The ideal candidate combines strong AI/ML fundamentals with experience delivering end-to-end AI solutions,

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