Senior AI Software Engineer

Socket.dev; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

Disability & Life Insurance

Professional Development

401K with match

Referral bonus

Code Red days

Vacation days 25

Federal Holidays

Travel upgrade

Job summary

Que Technology Group, Inc. seeks a Senior AI Software Engineer to lead AI/ML-driven mission capabilities for Corporate Directory Services, collaborating with stakeholders to design and deploy AI-enabled applications.

You will work across software, data science, ML, and LLM integration from proof-of-concept to production, with a TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance as a requirement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 11+ years of relevant experience or equivalent.
• Proficiency with Java and Python; experience with Jupyter Notebooks.
• Desirable: RAG, MCP, LLM integration, and agentic AI concepts.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers to drive rapid AI/ML-enabled mission capabilities.
• Develop, evaluate, and transition AI/ML solutions for operational analysis.
• Apply scalable architectures and integration of LLMs to production systems.

Skills

Java

Python

Jupyter Notebooks

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Que Technology Group, Inc., is seeking a motivated Senior AI Software Engineer to support the exciting Corporate Directory Services mission. Engineer will work closely with mission stakeholders to lead the development of advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) solutions, intelligence mission workflows, and emerging analytic capabilities. This role is responsible for designing, developing, prototyping, and operationalizing AI-enabled applications that automate complex intelligence processes, discover emergent intelligence value, and accelerate mission outcomes. The candidate will work across multiple technical domains including software engineering, data science, machine learning, and large language model (LLM) integration to deliver innovative capabilities from proof-of-concept through operational deployment.

Job Responsibilities/Qualifications:

• Mission Focus: Collaborate closely with customers to drive the rapid development, evaluation, and transition of AI/ML-enabled mission capabilities that enhance operational analysis and intelligence workflows. Leverage emerging technologies, scalable software architectures, and advanced analytics to automate discovery, accelerate insight generation, and deliver production-ready solutions across diverse mission domains. Shape technical strategy and best practices to ensure effective deployment, sustainment, and evolution of AI-enabled mission systems
• Technical Proficiency: Proficient in current AI/ML technologies such as classification, clustering, collaborative filtering, search, and retrieval using techniques such as but not limited to deep neutral networks (DNN), recurrent neural networks (RNN), attention-based transformers, etc. Experience in current large language models (LLM) for representative and generative tasks.
• Qualifications: Bachelor's degree plus 11-years of relevant experience or equivalent. Proficiency with object-oriented languages (JAVA, Python) and experience with Jupyter Notebooks
• Desirable Skills: Proficiency in approaches to retrieval augmented generation (RAG), model context protocol (MCP) and other recent technologies supporting agentic AI. Foundational knowledge of statistics related to parametric probability distributions, nonparametric probability distributions, Bayesian analysis, and covariance matrices. Proficiency in agentic systems that can automatically carry out mission goals with limited supervision.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required

BENEFITS:

• Competitive salary
• Company Medical/Dental/Vision plans – Company paid
• Short-term Disability, Long-term disability and Life Insurance – Company paid
• Business/ First Class travel upgrade for 7 hour or longer flights & company card will be provided for expenses
• Vacation / Personal days granted at 25 days per year
• Paid Federal Holidays – 11 days
• $5,000 Annual Professional Development Fund plus 40 paid hours if in class
• 401K with 6% company match; all contributions are immediately vested by Employee
• Employee will be paid a bonus of $10,000 per employee hired based on their referral
• Up to 3 paid Code Red days due to customer closure

Que Technology Group, Inc., is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.