Senior AI Engineer - Secure Gov Cloud & LLMs

Momentum Engineering; Maryland; On-site; USD 225,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

11 paid holidays

3 weeks PTO

Medical plan

Dental plan

Vision plan

Life insurance

STD/LTD plans

Job summary

Momentum Engineering Annapolis Junction is seeking a senior software engineer to integrate AI-enabled capabilities into analyst workflows and mission systems to accelerate cyber data triage, improve decision support, and enhance operational effectiveness.

You will stand up, assess, and guide modern AI platforms in secure government settings, with familiarity in cloud ecosystems such as Microsoft Azure and AWS. This role requires deep technical expertise and a mission-focused mindset.

Qualifications

• Must-have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related field with 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Familiarity with machine learning, model training, evaluation, tuning, and performance measurement.
• Ability to assess model effectiveness using quantitative metrics and communicate tradeoffs.
• Depth of experience with prompt engineering.
• Proficiency in Python and experience developing RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Experience supporting AI/ML, data, cloud, or platform engineering in government/defense environments.
• Understanding of LLMs, embeddings, RAG, vector search, and agentic workflows.
• Experience with Microsoft and/or AWS platform ecosystems.
• Proficient with Windows PowerShell/Command Prompt for development and automation tasks.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture, containers, APIs, identity/access management, and secure system integration.
• Experience with relational databases, SQL, backup/recovery, and security/performance best practices.
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Passion for AI and platform modernization.
• Ability to prototype solutions and operate in ambiguous problem spaces.

Responsibilities

• Develop full stack applications and services leveraging LLMs, RAG, and agentic workflows.
• Design, develop, and deploy AI/ML models and tools for data mining and knowledge discovery.
• Integrate AI/ML capabilities into secure, cloud-based data architectures with interoperable APIs.
• Monitor model performance, data drift, and metrics; support retraining and fine-tuning as needed.
• Collaborate with data engineers, software developers, and stakeholders to define requirements and validate outputs.
• Ensure AI/ML workflows comply with DoD cybersecurity, data privacy, and access controls in isolated cloud environments.
• Assist in knowledge transfer and creation of tutorials for AI/ML usage.
• Educate stakeholders on AI platform concepts and best practices in government environments.
• Assess data patterns and support vulnerability information in collaboration with Cyber Analysts.
• Conduct AoAs comparing internal vs open-source/industry-standard approaches.
• Develop experiments to evaluate model performance using representative datasets.

Skills

Python

RESTful APIs

AI/ML concepts

Prompt engineering

Cloud platforms

Linux CLI

CI/CD

Database design

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

PowerShell

SQL

Job description

Momentum Engineering Annapolis Junction is seeking a senior software engineer to integrate AI-enabled capabilities into analyst workflows and mission systems to accelerate cyber data triage, improve decision support, and enhance operational effectiveness.

You will stand up, assess, and guide modern AI platforms in secure government settings, with familiarity in cloud ecosystems such as Microsoft Azure and AWS. This role requires deep technical expertise and a mission-focused mindset.