{"id":982376,"url":"https://alion.io/job/rackner-aiml-engineer-active-tssci-dayton-oh","title":"AI/ML Engineer — Active TS/SCI | Dayton, OH","company":{"id":687090,"name":"Rackner","domain":"rackner.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/rackner","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":88,"open_postings":17,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.471,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":29,"computed_at":"2026-11-02T06:13:15Z"}},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Dayton, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":129000,"max_usd":287000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":4425},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Computer Vision","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"Hugging Face","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Ollama","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"PyTorch","optional":false},{"name":"TensorFlow","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-16T21:40:27Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-18","last_verified_at":"2026-11-02T13:15:59Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":46,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":[],"days_open":46},"description":"AI/ML Engineer\n(Active TS/SCI)\nLocation: Dayton, OH\nClearance: Active TS/SCI required\nBuild AI That Moves From Model to Mission\nRackner is seeking an AI/ML Engineer to build, integrate, and operationalize artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities supporting a high-impact federal mission.\nIn this role, you will work across the AI lifecycle - from model development and evaluation through software integration, AI services, and user enablement. You will help turn emerging AI capabilities into practical tools that analysts, developers, and mission teams can use.\nThis is a strong fit for an engineer who wants broader ownership than training models in isolation. You will have opportunities to shape technical approaches, work directly with the people using the capability, and help determine how AI moves from experimentation into secure, scalable mission use.\nThe work supports a customer environment in Dayton, Ohio. Onsite and hybrid expectations are still being finalized, so candidates should be prepared to discuss their ability to support work in Dayton if required. Strong qualified candidates outside the area may also be considered while those requirements are being finalized.\nBecause this work supports a federal customer, an active TS/SCI clearance is required.\nWhat You'll Do\nBuild and evaluate machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI solutions for real-world mission use cases\nDevelop and integrate AI/ML capabilities across software applications, APIs, services, data pipelines, and existing technical environments\nAssess models and data to determine suitability, availability, access requirements, technical feasibility, and potential mission value\nEnable LLM and GenAI capabilities through repeatable workflows, interfaces, services, and approved access mechanisms\nPrepare and curate datasets for model training, evaluation, testing, and operational AI workflows\nTranslate prototypes into usable capability by addressing performance, scalability, reproducibility, integration, and deployment\nDevelop interfaces and services that allow applications and users to interact with AI/ML capabilities and associated model or provider metadata\nPartner with software engineers, data engineers, technical leadership, product stakeholders, and subject-matter experts\nCreate technical documentation, implementation guidance, runbooks, and repeatable processes that support adoption and sustainment\nEvaluate deployed capabilities and use technical and user feedback to improve performance and mission utility\nWhat We're Looking For\nYou bring a strong hands-on foundation in applied machine learning or AI engineering and can demonstrate work that progressed beyond theoretical exercises or isolated notebooks.\nYou should be comfortable developing software - preferably with Python - and working with a major ML framework such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or comparable technologies.\nYour technical background may be strongest in areas such as:\nComputer vision\nNatural language processing\nGenerative AI and Large Language Models\nPredictive modeling\nObject detection or classification\nModeling and simulation\nOther applied machine learning domains\nYou do not need to be an expert in every area.\nStrong candidates will be able to clearly explain what they built, what they personally owned, why they made particular technical decisions, how they evaluated the result, and how the capability ultimately reached its users.\nYou should also be comfortable working with datasets used for model development and evaluation and collaborating across software, data, systems, and mission teams.\nPreferred Background\nAdditional value may come from hands-on work with:\nHugging Face, Ollama, or comparable GenAI and model tooling\nAPIs, microservices, or AI service integration\nDocker, containers, or cloud-native deployment\nAWS, Azure, or similar cloud environments\nDevSecOps or MLOps practices\nModel or data versioning and reproducible AI workflows\nMetadata management and model/provider catalogs\nProduction AI/ML pipelines\nLarge-scale, sensitive, or regulated datasets\nFederal, DoD, Intelligence Community, or similarly controlled technical environments\nDirect collaboration with mission users, product owners, technical leadership, or government stakeholders\nThese are advantages, not a checklist. We are primarily looking for engineers who can connect strong AI/ML fundamentals with sound software engineering and practical implementation.\nAbout Rackner\nRackner is a software consultancy focused on building mission-critical systems for the U.S. government.\nOur teams work across cloud platforms, DevSecOps, AI/ML, data systems, and modern software engineering initiatives supporting federal agencies and national security missions.\nRackner engineers and technical teams collaborate closely with leadership, program teams, and mission stakeholders to design, deliver, and improve systems that address complex operational challenges.\nBenefits & Perks\nAt Rackner, we believe that when our people grow, our company grows with them. 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