Software Engineer II - AI Infrastructure

Black Eagle Defense; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 143,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Eagle Defense in Fort Meade, MD, seeks a Software Engineer II – AI Infrastructure to design, build, and operate scalable AI infrastructure that powers enterprise AI services.

You will work with full‑stack teams to deliver secure, observable, and high‑performing inference infrastructure, support AI/analytics, RAG, autonomous agents, and modern platform practices in a cloud‑oriented environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain AI infrastructure components.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure scalable, secure, observable platforms.

Job description

SALARY RANGE $143,000 - $200,000/year

DUTIES As a successful candidate for the Software Engineer II – AI Infrastructure role, you will support the development, operation, and evolution of the next generation of AI infrastructure that enables innovation across the customer organization. As part of a full-stack engineering team, you will design, implement, and maintain scalable platform capabilities that serve as the foundation for AI-powered applications and services. Your efforts will focus on AI inference infrastructure while supporting a broader ecosystem that includes advanced analytics, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), autonomous agents, and emerging AI technologies. In this role, you will independently design, develop, deploy, and optimize infrastructure components that deliver reliable, secure, and high-performance AI capabilities at scale. You will collaborate with engineers, platform teams, and stakeholders to enhance platform reliability, drive adoption of modern technologies and engineering practices, and ensure AI services remain scalable, observable, and operationally resilient. Through cloud engineering, automation, systems integration, and platform development, you will help deliver the infrastructure that powers mission-critical AI solutions across the enterprise.