Senior AI/ML Automation Engineer (Secret Clearance)

ARGO Cyber Systems; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

ARGO Cyber Systems seeks an AI/ML Automation Engineer to architect and deploy AI-driven cybersecurity capabilities, including LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, and autonomous agent workflows. The role requires active security clearance, strong Python, cloud-native development on AWS, Databricks, and production ML pipelines, leading cross-disciplinary teams to advance national cyber operations.

Hybrid government facility work arrangement with DHS collaboration and cutting-edge AI modernization

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Active Secret Security Clearance required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Software Engineering, or related STEM field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI/ML, automation, or data engineering.
• Strong Python development experience.
• Experience with Databricks AI Platform.
• Experience implementing ML pipelines and integrating LLMs.
• Experience with Amazon Bedrock and AWS AI services.
• Experience building REST APIs and cloud-native apps.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, and software best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy enterprise AI/ML solutions for cybersecurity operations.
• Develop intelligent automation using LLMs, foundation models, and autonomous AI agents.
• Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines for secure knowledge retrieval.
• Design prompt strategies and optimize AI model performance.
• Develop data prep, feature engineering, and ML training pipelines.
• Support model evaluation, tuning, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Python

AI/ML

Autonomous AI agents

LLMs

RAG

Cloud-native

REST APIs

CI/CD

Security clearance

Threat intelligence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related STEM field

Tools

Databricks AI Platform

Amazon Bedrock

AWS services

Docker

Kubernetes

LangChain

REST APIs development tools

Job description

ARGO Cyber Systems seeks an AI/ML Automation Engineer to architect and deploy AI-driven cybersecurity capabilities, including LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, and autonomous agent workflows. The role requires active security clearance, strong Python, cloud-native development on AWS, Databricks, and production ML pipelines, leading cross-disciplinary teams to advance national cyber operations.

Hybrid government facility work arrangement with DHS collaboration and cutting-edge AI modernization