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You will work across AI, software engineering, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, and customer technical teams to move capabilities beyond standalone demonstrations and into practical application workflows.\nThis role offers the opportunity to deepen your applied-AI experience, influence how emerging capabilities are designed and evaluated, and contribute to software where reliability, security, and mission usefulness matter.\nThis is a primarily remote role within the United States. Work will be performed using customer-provided systems, with virtual collaboration across the engineering team. Any classified work will be completed onsite at the customer location.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDesign, develop, test, and integrate AI-enabled software capabilities.\nBuild and integrate LLM-enabled capabilities into secure application workflows.\nDevelop or integrate retrieval-augmented generation capabilities.\nDevelop and support agentic-AI components and multi-step workflows.\nDesign and refine prompts, system instructions, and supporting AI workflows.\nBuild and maintain inference pipelines.\nConnect AI capabilities with existing backend services and decision-support processes.\nEvaluate AI outputs for grounding, reliability, accuracy, relevance, and mission usefulness.\nDevelop tests for AI-enabled functionality and support broader integration testing.\nDemonstrate working prototypes and incorporate technical and user feedback.\nDocument AI designs, workflows, limitations, evaluation results, and implementation decisions.\nParticipate in code reviews, technical reviews, and security-remediation activities.\nCollaborate with software engineers, security professionals, DevSecOps teams, and customer stakeholders.\nWhat You Bring\nA master’s degree or Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related field, along with demonstrated experience working on or developing AI/ML capabilities.\nAt least four years of relevant AI/ML experience that includes work with large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and prompt engineering.\nHands-on experience integrating LLM-enabled software and RAG capabilities into applications or workflows.\nDeveloping or supporting agentic-AI capabilities and multi-step AI workflows.\nDesigning, building, or supporting inference pipelines.\nAbility to evaluate AI-enabled capabilities and clearly document findings, design decisions, and results.\nTesting and documenting AI-enabled software capabilities.\nAbility to clearly explain your personal technical ownership and contributions.\nStrong collaboration and technical-communication skills.\nPreferred Background\nExperience with several of the following can strengthen your fit:\nMoving AI capabilities beyond coursework, personal projects, or demonstrations into operational software workflows.\nEvaluating grounding, reliability, output quality, hallucinations, or other limitations of AI-enabled systems.\nIntegrating AI services with backend APIs or established software applications.\nSecure software-development lifecycle and DevSecOps practices.\nOpenShift, Kubernetes, CI/CD, or containerized application delivery.\nSecure, restricted, disconnected, on-premises, or classified development environments.\nDefense, government, aerospace, mission-planning, or other regulated environments.\nCollaboration with software-engineering, cybersecurity, platform, and customer-facing technical teams.\nWhy Rackner\nAt Rackner, you will have the opportunity to build technology that supports critical defense and public-sector missions.\nYou will work on more than isolated AI experiments or prompt-engineering tasks. This role combines hands-on LLM integration, retrieval and agentic-AI development, secure software delivery, and close collaboration across AI, software, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, and mission-focused teams.\nRackner has delivered more than $30 million in recent federal awards and supports mission-critical work across defense, civilian, and public-sector environments. We are looking for an applied AI engineer who can build on that momentum by turning emerging generative-AI capabilities into secure, dependable software with meaningful mission impact.\nBenefits & Professional Growth\nCompetitive compensation\nCompany-supported certifications aligned with current and future program work\n401(k) with 100% company match up to 6%\nMedical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage\nPaid time off and company holidays\nRemote-work support and home-office equipment plan\nFitness and wellness reimbursement\nWeekly pay schedule\nProfessional-development and future growth opportunities\nApply\nIf you are an AI/ML engineer who wants to move beyond standalone prototypes and help integrate LLM, RAG, and agentic-AI capabilities into secure mission software, we would like to hear from you.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5628,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Growth opportunities"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","DevOps & Platform Engineering","DevSecOps","AI Consulting & Integration"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-13T05:41:27Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":7,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.257,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":108,"expected_fill_days":29,"reasons":["conf:2","stale_co","ghost","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/rackner-aiml-engineer-generative-ai-mission-systems","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/rackner-aiml-engineer-generative-ai-mission-systems.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-09T05:11:48Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":51,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-10T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":687090},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=687090"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Frackner-aiml-engineer-generative-ai-mission-systems"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Frackner-aiml-engineer-generative-ai-mission-systems"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Frackner-aiml-engineer-generative-ai-mission-systems"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/rackner-aiml-engineer-generative-ai-mission-systems\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Frackner-aiml-engineer-generative-ai-mission-systems"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":854592}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"rackner.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":854592},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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