Senior AI Software Engineer - TS/SCI Poly | RAG & LLM

Dark Wolf; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Dark Wolf is seeking a Senior AI Software Engineer to design, build, and integrate AI/ML solutions and microservices. You will work on open-source and proprietary models, fine-tuning workflows, and deploying secure software in multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities include developing RAG pipelines, vector search integrations, and integrating security scanning in CI/CD. Must hold US citizenship with active TS/SCI and Full-Scope Polygraph.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Master’s degree is preferred.
• 4–7 years of software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Fine-tune AI models for mission-specific requirements.
• Develop RAG pipelines and vector search integrations.
• Build, deploy, and manage containerized microservices with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Integrate SAST/DAST tools into CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate in Agile sprints and mentor junior developers.

Skills

Python

C++

LLM fine-tuning

ML pipelines

REST API

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/related field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Hugging Face

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

AWS / Azure GovCloud

Job description

Dark Wolf is seeking a Senior AI Software Engineer to design, build, and integrate AI/ML solutions and microservices. You will work on open-source and proprietary models, fine-tuning workflows, and deploying secure software in multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities include developing RAG pipelines, vector search integrations, and integrating security scanning in CI/CD. Must hold US citizenship with active TS/SCI and Full-Scope Polygraph.