Senior AI/ML Engineer: Agentic AI & LLM Integration Lead

Leidos LLC; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 108,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to integrate generative AI and agentic AI systems into existing software products. You will lead the integration of LLMs, VLMs, and mLLMs, design fine‑tuning strategies, and architect agentic AI workflows within a multidisciplinary team.

You will own end‑to‑end deployment, CI/CD, monitoring, and lifecycle management while collaborating with software engineers, security, and data teams to meet product and compliance requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in AI/ML
• Hands-on production integration of LLMs/VLMs and agentic AI systems

Responsibilities

• Lead the integration of LLMs, VLMs, and mLLMs into existing software products and platforms.
• Design and execute fine‑tuning strategies for pretrained models (LoRA, QLoRA, RLHF/DPO).
• Architect agentic AI solutions: agent/skill design, MCP tool/server integrations, and multi‑agent orchestration workflows.
• Set organizational standards for prompt engineering to optimize agent reasoning and output quality.
• Lead the development of test harnesses, evaluation suites, and red‑teaming/adversarial testing for agentic systems prior to production release.
• Own end‑to‑end deployment and operations of agentic AI systems – CI/CD, monitoring, versioning and rollback, and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with software engineers, product owners, security, and data teams to align capabilities with product and compliance requirements.
• Present architectures and lifecycle strategies to technical leadership and stakeholders.

Skills

DoD clearance

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face Transformers

LLMs

VLMs

mLLMs

CI/CD

Agentic AI concepts

Prompt engineering

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Data Science / ML

Tools

MLflow

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to integrate generative AI and agentic AI systems into existing software products. You will lead the integration of LLMs, VLMs, and mLLMs, design fine‑tuning strategies, and architect agentic AI workflows within a multidisciplinary team.

You will own end‑to‑end deployment, CI/CD, monitoring, and lifecycle management while collaborating with software engineers, security, and data teams to meet product and compliance requirements.