Senior AI Engineer – Secure Gov LLM/RAG Specialist

Precise Software Solutions, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

FSA/HSA

PTO & Holidays

Disability Insurance

Parental Leave

Jury Duty Leave

Life Insurance

Critical Illness Insurance

Training & Development

Wellness Programs

Referral Program

Charity Match

Awards & Recognition

Job summary

Precise Software Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to deliver hands-on, senior engineering for secure AI-enabled applications for U.S. Government projects.

You will drive peak demand during major releases, create new AI use cases, retrain models, and perform security testing with an emphasis on LLM, RAG, and agentic solutions. You will work with the core engineering team, adhere to architecture standards, and lead adversarial testing before releases while mentoring engineers and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems, or related technical discipline; 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Five plus years hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering, AI-enabled app development, data/cloud engineering or software engineering.
• 1+ year hands-on experience with Generative AI, LLM integration, RAG, model evaluation, agentic AI, or production AI systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience developing AI-enabled applications, APIs, services, and automation.
• Experience designing and deploying RAG pipelines, semantic retrieval, vector databases, cloud-based AI services, and AI workflow orchestration.
• Experience conducting AI-specific adversarial testing (prompt injection, jailbreak, data poisoning) and documenting mitigations.
• Experience working in FedRAMP-authorized environments and applying NIST SP 800-53 controls.
• Experience developing AI-enabled UIs that conform to WCAG 2.1 AA and supporting release management.
• At least one current Generative AI or Machine Learning certification with verifiable evidence.
• U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident (green card).
• Must reside in the Washington, DC metro area and be able to work on-site at Government offices.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a NACI background investigation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, integrate, and deploy AI-enabled applications and services, including LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector search, and agentic workflows.
• Implement model evaluation, hallucination reduction, retrieval quality tuning, and performance optimization; provide side-by-side model comparisons.
• Lead AI-specific security and adversarial testing before releases; document and mitigate findings.
• Enforce environment promotion controls (DEV to PROD), including security scans, testing, and TEVV gates.
• Support MLOps workflows, including model versioning, drift detection, retraining, and release documentation.
• Serve as Tier 2/3 escalation resource for production AI issues; support incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Contribute to engineering deliverables such as RAG designs, AI test plans, adversarial testing reports, SBOMs, and environment baselines.
• Conduct code and prompt reviews and mentor developers.

Skills

Python

AI/ML engineering

APIs & automation

RAG pipelines

Adversarial testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/Systems

Master's degree preferred

Tools

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

Semantic Kernel

vLLM

TGI

Job description

Precise Software Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to deliver hands-on, senior engineering for secure AI-enabled applications for U.S. Government projects.

You will drive peak demand during major releases, create new AI use cases, retrain models, and perform security testing with an emphasis on LLM, RAG, and agentic solutions. You will work with the core engineering team, adhere to architecture standards, and lead adversarial testing before releases while mentoring engineers and