Senior AI/ML Engineer

X8; Columbia (MD); Sur place; USD 200 000 - 230 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

401K Match - 10%

Paid time off - 24 PTO Days

Holidays - 13

Medical Benefits - 100% Employee

Résumé du poste

X8 in Columbia, MD seeks a Senior AI/ML Engineer to transition AI prototypes into secure, enterprise-scale services for USCYBERCOM. The role focuses on Python development, LLM/agent orchestration, model evaluation, and enterprise integration to deliver measurable mission impact.

Qualified candidates have a TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph, deep Python, and proven experience building production LLM/agent systems. Compensation starts at $200k+.

Qualifications

• Design, develop and integrate AI/ML capabilities for secure enterprise environments.
• Experience building production-grade LLM/agent systems.
• Familiarity with RAG, vector databases and prompt engineering.
• Ability to manage risk and operational security in mission-critical settings.
• Strong collaboration with data scientists and mission analysts.

Responsabilités

• Provide embedded mission support and rapid prototyping of AI capabilities.
• Design workflow orchestration for LLMs and agents using modern frameworks.
• Optimize model routing for performance, cost, and mission fit.
• Develop RAG pipelines, vector stores, and memory services for context.
• Integrate secure tool brokers for enterprise data access.
• Build automated evaluation, benchmarks, monitoring, and reporting.
• Partner with teams to produce research and prototypes while enforcing governance.

Connaissances

Advanced Python

LLM/agent systems

RAG pipelines

Vector databases

Prompt engineering

Secure enterprise environments

Formation

Bachelor's degree in computer science or data science

Master's degree (desirable)

Outils

LangGraph

Agno

NVIDIA NeMo

MCP

vLLM

Ollama

Description du poste

X8 is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to support the U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) AI Enterprise capability. Help mission teams transition AI prototypes into secure, governed, enterprise-scale services by engineering production-ready models, agents, and workflows.

Columbia, MD

This role combines advanced Python development, LLM/agent orchestration, model evaluation, and enterprise integration to deliver measurable mission impact in a fast-paced cyber operations environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Provide embedded mission support, rapid prototyping, and integration of AI/ML-enabled capabilities.
• Design LLM and agent orchestration workflows using LangGraph, Agno, NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit, or similar frameworks.
• Optimize model gateway routing across frontier and open-weight models for mission fit, performance, and cost.
• Develop RAG pipelines, vector databases, and memory services for mission-grounded agent context.
• Integrate MCP-based tool brokers for secure agent access to enterprise tools and data.
• Build automated model/agent evaluations, benchmarks, monitoring, and performance reporting.
• Partner with data scientists and mission analysts to produce research and prototypes.
• Implement AI governance guardrails, policy enforcement, safety filters, and approval gates.

What Required Skills You’ll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Data Science, or related discipline with 10+ years of experience; 4 additional years may substitute for a degree.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph.
• Advanced Python proficiency for AI/ML application development.
• Demonstrated experience building or integrating production LLM/agent-based systems.
• Hands-on experience with RAG, vector databases, and prompt/context engineering.
• Ability to prioritize competing mission requirements and identify/escalate operational risks.
• Experience designing, testing, and integrating software capabilities in secure enterprise environments.

What Desired Skills You’ll Bring

• Master's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience.
• USCYBERCOM, NSA, DoD cyber operations, or related AI mission experience; LangGraph, Agno, NeMo, NVIDIA NIM, vLLM, Ollama, LiteLLM, MCP, AI observability or benchmarking.

WHY JOIN X8?

• Build mission-relevant AI capabilities for USCYBERCOM.
• Help shape a secure enterprise AI platform with high-visibility technical impact.

Minimum Clearance Required

• Active TS/SCI with CI polygraph required.

Compensation

• $200,000+ (depending on education and experience)
• Bonus potential
• 401K Match - 10%
• Paid time off - 24 PTO Days, 13 Holidays
• Medical Benefits - 100% Employee, 80% Dependent, $1000 company paid HSA Contribution