Senior AI/ML Engineer — TS/SCI Cleared, Geospatial AI

Vantor; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 145,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor seeks a Senior AI/ML Software Engineer to integrate secure chatbot and AI assistant capabilities into geospatial intelligence and mission-support tools. You will enable analysts to discover data, navigate applications, and execute approved workflows using natural language.

The role requires strong software engineering skills, practical LLM experience, and hands-on work with secure, usable AI in mission environments. Expect Kubernetes/OpenShift deployment and cross-site collaboration.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production applications or services.
• Hands-on experience integrating generative AI or LLMs into production software.
• Strong Python skills and experience with JavaScript/TypeScript/Java/Go/C++.
• Experience building REST APIs or microservices and using Git, automated testing, CI/CD, Agile.
• Experience with secure identity, authorization, and data-protection controls.
• Willingness to work in a SCIF environment in specified U.S. locations.

Responsibilities

• Integrate AI chatbots and assistants into geospatial, analytics, visualization, and mission apps.
• Build natural-language workflows for data discovery, navigation, visualization, and actions.
• Implement LLM patterns: prompt orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling.
• Connect AI services to REST APIs, data catalogs, search platforms, knowledge graphs, and dashboards.
• Develop reusable backend services and frontend components for analysts.
• Enforce identity, entitlements, data-access policies, and provide citations/audit trails.
• Test AI quality, safety, latency, and usability; guard against prompt injection and leakage.
• Deploy and operate AI services in Kubernetes/OpenShift, including restricted/disconnected environments.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Java

Go

C++

REST APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

Git

Agile

Education

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

Tools

React/TypeScript

Elasticsearch

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Vantor seeks a Senior AI/ML Software Engineer to integrate secure chatbot and AI assistant capabilities into geospatial intelligence and mission-support tools. You will enable analysts to discover data, navigate applications, and execute approved workflows using natural language.

The role requires strong software engineering skills, practical LLM experience, and hands-on work with secure, usable AI in mission environments. Expect Kubernetes/OpenShift deployment and cross-site collaboration.