# AI Engineer - SME

Fantom Corporation is a mission-focused organization supporting critical programs across the defense and intelligence community. We partner with our customers to deliver high-impact technical solutions while fostering a culture built on trust, expertise, and long-term career growth. We are seeking an AI Engineer to: Build scalable, production-ready AI/ML/GenAI models, pipelines, and microservices. Develop training, evaluation, and inference pipelines in Python using PyTorch, TensorFlow, or scikit learn. Deploy and manage models with MLOps, CI/CD, containerization, and monitoring frameworks. Implement vector databases, embeddings, LLM applications, agentic AI, and tool calling workflows. Optimize models for accuracy, latency, cost, and scalability across distributed environments. Ensure AI governance, documentation, ethical compliance, and secure posture alignment. Provide technical mentorship and drive cross-team engineering standardization. Responsibilities 10+ years of specialized AI/ML engineering experience. Advanced Python skills and strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems. Hands-on experience deploying production GenAI/LLM systems, embeddi

- **Id**: 4279241
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/fantom-corporation-ai-engineer-sme>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chantilly, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T19:50:10Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T20:02:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4815
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Infrastructure & Networking Services, IT Consulting & Digital Transformation

## Company

- **Id**: 673180
- **Name**: Fantom Corporation
- **Domain**: fantomcorp.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/fantomcorp>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 21
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LanceDB** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **MLFlow** — Optional: no
- **NER** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Scikit-learn** — Optional: no
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: no
- **Temporal** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Vertex AI** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T20:02:13Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T21:59:17Z

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