Senior AI/ML Engineer — Geospatial & Secure AI

MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; Virginia (MN); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor is seeking a Senior AI/ML Software Engineer to integrate secure chatbot and AI assistant capabilities into geospatial intelligence tools. You will enable analysts to discover data, navigate applications, and perform approved actions using natural language within mission-focused systems.

The role requires strong software engineering skills, practical LLM experience, and expertise deploying AI in secure, usable ways. Expected to work in SCIF environments in VA/CO/MO or related sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, artificial intelligence, data science, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering delivering production applications or services.
• Hands-on experience integrating generative AI or LLMs into production software using RAG, embeddings, vector search, function calling, or agent workflows.

Responsibilities

• Integrate AI chatbots and assistants into geospatial, analytics, visualization, and mission applications.
• Build natural-language workflows for data discovery, application navigation, visualization generation, and approved actions.
• Implement LLM patterns such as prompt orchestration and retrieval-augmented generation.
• Connect AI services to REST APIs, data catalogs, search platforms, knowledge graphs, and dashboards.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Go

C++

Java

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS, software engineering, AI, data science, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Red Hat OpenShift

REST APIs

Git

CI/CD

React

TypeScript

Job description

Vantor is seeking a Senior AI/ML Software Engineer to integrate secure chatbot and AI assistant capabilities into geospatial intelligence tools. You will enable analysts to discover data, navigate applications, and perform approved actions using natural language within mission-focused systems.

The role requires strong software engineering skills, practical LLM experience, and expertise deploying AI in secure, usable ways. Expected to work in SCIF environments in VA/CO/MO or related sites.