Senior AI Engineer: Mission‑Critical LLM & Security

Leidos

Linthicum (MD)

On-site

USD 108,000 - 195,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off
11 paid Holidays
401K with 6% company match
Flexible Schedules
Discounted Stock Purchase Plans
Technical Upskilling
Education and Training Support
Parental Paid Leave

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join the Intel Sector. You will design and maintain LLM orchestration frameworks coordinating static analyzers, RAG systems, and automated testing pipelines, while building data preprocessing pipelines to ingest and vectorize product documentation and code for AI workloads.

You will collaborate with mission stakeholders to capture requirements, aid in planning, and improve AI/ML tooling certification, enhancing vulnerability identification and mitigation

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree + 8 years of relevant experience or equivalent.
  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain LLM orchestration frameworks coordinating static analyzers, RAG systems, and testing pipelines.
  • Develop data preprocessing to ingest, clean, transform, and vectorize docs, source code, and test results for LLM use.
  • Architect and deploy AI tools within secure enclaves and perform performance profiling, optimization, and scalability analysis.

Skills

Python
LLM integration
Data engineering
Static analyzers
RAG framework
Relational databases
Vector databases
Agile
Git
Jira
Confluence

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Git
Jira
Confluence
Relational databases
Vector databases

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join the Intel Sector. You will design and maintain LLM orchestration frameworks coordinating static analyzers, RAG systems, and automated testing pipelines, while building data preprocessing pipelines to ingest and vectorize product documentation and code for AI workloads.

You will collaborate with mission stakeholders to capture requirements, aid in planning, and improve AI/ML tooling certification, enhancing vulnerability identification and mitigation

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