Senior AI/ML Engineer — TS/SCI/Poly, Onsite Fort Meade

Agile Defense, Inc.; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 155,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Agile Defense, Inc. is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to design and integrate AI models and workflows for an enterprise-scale cyber operations platform at Fort Meade. You will collaborate with data scientists and mission analysts to deliver production-grade AI capabilities.

The role requires TS/SCI with poly, 8+ years in AI/ML, strong Python, and hands-on experience with LLM/agent systems, RAG pipelines, and model governance. Onsite duty offers a challenging environment and mission impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related discipline and 8+ years of experience
• 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
• Active TS/SCI clearance w/Poly

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-based tool-broker integrations so agents can safely access enterprise tools and data.
• Evaluate, benchmark, and tune models and agent behaviors; build automated evaluation pipelines for quality, safety, and performance.
• Collaborate with data scientists and mission analysts to translate research into production-grade AI capabilities for the command.
• Implement AI governance guardrails — content/safety filters, policy enforcement, and approval gates.

Skills

Python

LLM/agent systems

RAG

Vector databases

Prompt engineering

Clearance TS/SCI w/ Poly

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Data Science or related

Tools

LangGraph

Agno

NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit

NVIDIA NIM

vLLM

Ollama

LiteLLM

Job description

Agile Defense, Inc. is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to design and integrate AI models and workflows for an enterprise-scale cyber operations platform at Fort Meade. You will collaborate with data scientists and mission analysts to deliver production-grade AI capabilities.

The role requires TS/SCI with poly, 8+ years in AI/ML, strong Python, and hands-on experience with LLM/agent systems, RAG pipelines, and model governance. Onsite duty offers a challenging environment and mission impact.