Senior Applied AI Engineer – National Security

Booz Allen Hamilton; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to design, train, test, deploy, and maintain AI/ML models for national security projects. You will collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, and MLOps to scale AI solutions across enterprise data capabilities.

Required 3+ years in software engineering or ML, Python with FastAPI/Flask, and UI frameworks like Streamlit or Gradio; a Bachelor's degree is required, and TS/SCI clearance is mandatory.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering, applied AI and ML, or full-stack development, including AI integrations.
• Experience rapidly prototyping, developing, and iterating on use-case-specific AI solutions such as chat systems, user-facing applications, and domain-specific copilots.
• Experience conducting comprehensive evaluation and tuning of AI outputs, including refining prompts, optimizing retrieval logic, and implementing custom heuristics.
• Experience with Python and building API endpoints such as FastAPI or Flask, or rapid UI frameworks such as Streamlit or Gradio, to demonstrate AI capabilities.
• Ability to work closely with mission integration teams and product stakeholders to translate mission needs into refined, business-facing AI capabilities.
• Ability to pivot quickly between different domains and use cases, adapting AI solutions to various operational requirements.
• TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor's degree

Responsibilities

• Train, test, deploy, and maintain models that learn from data.
• Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, solutions architects, and MLOps engineers.
• Define direction of critical AI solutions for national security customers.
• Work on enterprise-scale AI processing and data capabilities.
• Translate mission needs into refined, business-facing AI capabilities.

Skills

AI/ML development

Python

API development

UI frameworks

Team collaboration

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

FastAPI

Flask

Streamlit

Gradio

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to design, train, test, deploy, and maintain AI/ML models for national security projects. You will collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, and MLOps to scale AI solutions across enterprise data capabilities.

Required 3+ years in software engineering or ML, Python with FastAPI/Flask, and UI frameworks like Streamlit or Gradio; a Bachelor's degree is required, and TS/SCI clearance is mandatory.