Senior AI Infra Architect — Mission‑Focused & Secure

IPTA; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IPTA in Redstone Arsenal/Huntsville, AL seeks an AI Infrastructure Engineer to advance AI-enabled applications and workflows. You’ll prototype and evaluate AI systems, including LLMs and agentic tooling, while collaborating with government stakeholders.

The role emphasizes learning, initiative, and robust software infrastructure, staying current with rapid AI ecosystem changes to deliver practical, secure solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, integrating, or evaluating AI/ML-enabled applications or software tools.
• Familiarity with modern AI patterns including LLM-based applications, RAG, prompt engineering, agentic systems.
• Experience with software development fundamentals, APIs, data handling, and system integration.
• Ability to assess technical tradeoffs and communicate them clearly to engineers and government stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Active security clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to teams developing or assessing AI-enabled applications and tools.
• Advise on technical approaches for AI design, prototyping, integration, and evaluation.
• Assess solutions involving LLMs, retrieval augmented generation, tool use, agentic workflows, orchestration layers.
• Review architectures, development approaches, model usage patterns, and technical risk areas.
• Advise on AI engineering considerations such as latency, reliability, observability, testability, guardrails, data flow, and system integration.
• Evaluate and compare modern AI frameworks, agentic libraries, and experimentation harnesses for mission use cases.
• Develop technical guidance, prototypes, engineering recommendations, and briefings for government stakeholders.
• Support test and evaluation activities for AI tools, including performance and workflow validation.
• Collaborate with platform engineers, product leads, mission users, and leadership to stay technically grounded.

Skills

AI/ML applications

APIs

Data handling

System integration

Tradeoff analysis

Communication

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

AutoGen

CrewAI

Haystack

LlamaIndex

Job description

IPTA in Redstone Arsenal/Huntsville, AL seeks an AI Infrastructure Engineer to advance AI-enabled applications and workflows. You’ll prototype and evaluate AI systems, including LLMs and agentic tooling, while collaborating with government stakeholders.

The role emphasizes learning, initiative, and robust software infrastructure, staying current with rapid AI ecosystem changes to deliver practical, secure solutions.