TS/SCI AI/ML Engineer: Mission‑Focused, Hybrid Role

Assured Consulting Solutions; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Assured Consulting Solutions is seeking an experienced AI/ML Engineer to advance our in-house language model, enabling data labeling across video, image, audio, and documents. The role focuses on developing, training, and deploying ML/LLM features to support mission-critical tasks in secure environments.

You will build and maintain MLOps pipelines, evaluate model performance, and integrate services via APIs, collaborating with data engineers and senior software engineers to deliver reliable AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related STEM field, or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on experience in machine learning engineering, applied AI, or model development with demonstrated model deployment to production.
• Experience implementing and operationalizing LLM-enabled applications or features, including prompting strategies, retrieval approaches, and integration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Develop and automate fine-tuning and model training pipelines using available tools or custom code.
• Develop innovative AI/ML and LLM-enabled solutions to address specific mission challenges and operational needs.
• Design, implement, and optimize machine learning models for new mission-critical use cases and features.
• Conduct research on novel modeling approaches, architectures, and techniques to maximize mission capability and competitive advantage.
• Work with mission leads and stakeholders to translate operational needs into technical AI/ML designs and implementation plans.
• Build and maintain MLOps and model deployment pipelines for experiment tracking, model versioning, and reliable production releases.
• Define and track model performance metrics aligned to mission success criteria and use evaluation findings to drive improvements.
• Integrate AI/ML model services into application workflows through APIs and production-ready interfaces.
• Partner with Data Integration Engineers to utilize curated training datasets, test corpora, and evaluation frameworks.
• Collaborate with Senior Software Engineers to operationalize AI/ML capabilities within secure, mission-focused application environments.
• Implement guardrails, monitoring, and fallback strategies for responsible and reliable AI/ML-enabled operations.
• Analyze model behavior, identify performance gaps, and innovate on approaches to improve quality, reliability, and mission impact.
• Document model designs, assumptions, training methodologies, evaluation results, and operational guidance for sustainability and knowledge transfer.
• Support production troubleshooting and performance optimization for mission-critical model-serving workloads.
• Contribute to technical standards and best practices for responsible, secure AI/ML engineering in mission environments.

Skills

Python

ML engineering

LLM integration

MLOps

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

OpenShift

APIs

Job description

Assured Consulting Solutions is seeking an experienced AI/ML Engineer to advance our in-house language model, enabling data labeling across video, image, audio, and documents. The role focuses on developing, training, and deploying ML/LLM features to support mission-critical tasks in secure environments.

You will build and maintain MLOps pipelines, evaluate model performance, and integrate services via APIs, collaborating with data engineers and senior software engineers to deliver reliable AI