Senior Geospatial AI Engineer TS/SCI Cleared

Vantor Services; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Vantor is seeking a Senior AI/ML Software Engineer in Herndon, VA to integrate secure chatbot and AI assistant capabilities into geospatial intelligence tools. You will enable data discovery and workflow navigation through natural language, while upholding strict security and data protection requirements.

You bring strong software engineering skills, hands-on LLM experience, and a track record of deploying AI in mission environments.

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active TS/SCI clearance (with willingness to obtain a CI poly)
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, data science, artificial intelligence, or a related field with 8+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production applications or services.
• Hands-on experience integrating generative AI or LLMs into production software applications using patterns such as RAG, embeddings, vector search, function calling, or agent workflows.
• Strong Python skills and experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Go, C++, or another modern language.
• Experience building REST APIs or microservices and using Git, automated testing, CI/CD, and Agile development practices.
• Experience integrating enterprise data sources and applying secure identity, authorization, and data-protection controls.

Responsibilities

• Integrate AI chatbots and assistants into existing geospatial, analytics, visualization, and mission applications.
• Build natural-language workflows for data discovery, application navigation, visualization generation, and approved actions.
• Implement LLM patterns such as prompt orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling, and conversation context.
• Connect AI services to REST APIs, data catalogs, search platforms, knowledge graphs, geospatial services, notebooks, and dashboards.
• Develop reusable backend services and frontend components that make AI assistance simple for analysts to use.
• Enforce identity, entitlements, and data-access policies; provide citations, provenance, audit records, and clear system limitations.
• Test and evaluate AI quality, safety, latency, and usability, including protections against prompt injection, data leakage, and unauthorized actions.
• Deploy and operate AI services in Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift, including restricted or disconnected environments, and collaborate with technical and customer teams.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

TypeScript

Java

Go

C++

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Vantor is seeking a Senior AI/ML Software Engineer in Herndon, VA to integrate secure chatbot and AI assistant capabilities into geospatial intelligence tools. You will enable data discovery and workflow navigation through natural language, while upholding strict security and data protection requirements.

You bring strong software engineering skills, hands-on LLM experience, and a track record of deploying AI in mission environments.