Senior AI/ML Engineer — Enterprise Cyber AI Lead

Parsons; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 148,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k)

Paid time off

Flexible work schedules

Job summary

Parsons in the United States is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to advance AI/ML capabilities within a national security context. You will design and integrate models and agent workflows, partnering with data scientists and mission analysts to deliver production-grade AI for the command.

This role requires TS/SCI with Poly, deep Python experience, and hands-on work with LLM/agent frameworks, RAG pipelines, and AI governance guardrails.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related discipline
• Active TS/SCI clearance w/Poly
• Advanced proficiency in Python for AI/ML application development
• Demonstrated experience building or integrating LLM/agent-based systems in production
• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, and prompt/context engineering
• Ability to manage competing priorities in fast-paced mission environments and identify/escalate operational risks early

Responsibilities

• Provide embedded operations support, capability integration, and rapid prototyping for AI/ML-enabled tools in support of our customer.
• Design and integrate LLM/agent orchestration workflows using agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, Agno, and the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit.
• Tune model gateway routing logic to select, evaluate, and optimize across multiple frontier and open-weight models for cost, performance, and mission fit.
• Develop and integrate RAG pipelines, vector databases, and memory services to give agents access to mission knowledge and context.
• Implement MCP (Model Context Protocol)-based tool-broker integrations so agents can safely and securely access enterprise tools and data.
• Evaluate, benchmark, and tune models and agent behaviors; build automated evaluation pipelines to track quality, safety, and performance over time.
• Partner with data scientists and mission analysts to translate research and prototypes into production-grade AI capabilities for the command.
• Implement AI governance guardrails — content/safety filters, policy enforcement, and approval gates — for agentic workflows, and document model/agent architectures and evaluation results for reuse.
• Research and evaluate emerging LLM, agent, and AI tooling to keep the command's AI capability current and adaptable.

Job description

Parsons in the United States is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to advance AI/ML capabilities within a national security context. You will design and integrate models and agent workflows, partnering with data scientists and mission analysts to deliver production-grade AI for the command.

This role requires TS/SCI with Poly, deep Python experience, and hands-on work with LLM/agent frameworks, RAG pipelines, and AI governance guardrails.