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We combine innovation, deep expertise, and cutting-edge capabilities to uncover vulnerabilities, protect vital systems, and ensure operational superiority in an ever-evolving digital landscape.\nPOSITION OVERVIEW\nPosition: AI/ML Engineer\nJob Type: Full Time\nLocation: Columbia, MD\nClearance Requirement: TS/SCI, CI Poly\nSalary : Senior $215, SME $240K\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\nSIXGEN is actively seeking candidates to be part of a team that supports the United States Cyber Command (USCC). Our team is standing up USCYBERCOM’s AI Enterprise capability - the central hub that mission teams turn to when they want to move an AI solution from prototype to a secure, governed, enterprise-scale service. As a AI/ML Engineer on this team, you will design and integrate the models, agents, and AI workflows that run on that platform, with significant, visible impact on the mission of the USCC.\nWhat You'll Be Doing:\nProvide embedded operations support, capability integration, and rapid prototyping for AI/ML-enabled tools in support of our customer.\nDesign and integrate LLM/agent orchestration workflows using agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, Agno, and the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit.\nTune model gateway routing logic to select, evaluate, and optimize across multiple frontier and open-weight models for cost, performance, and mission fit.\nDevelop and integrate RAG pipelines, vector databases, and memory services to give agents access to mission knowledge and context.\nImplement MCP (Model Context Protocol)-based tool-broker integrations so agents can safely and securely access enterprise tools and data.\nEvaluate, benchmark, and tune models and agent behaviors; build automated evaluation pipelines to track quality, safety, and performance over time.\nPartner with data scientists and mission analysts to translate research and prototypes into production-grade AI capabilities for the command.\nImplement AI governance guardrails - content/safety filters, policy enforcement, and approval gates - for agentic workflows, and document model/agent architectures and evaluation results for reuse.\nResearch and evaluate emerging LLM, agent, and AI tooling to keep the command's AI capability current and adaptable.\nRequirements\nBachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related discipline and 10+ years of experience; 4 additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree\nActive TS/SCI clearance w/Poly\nAdvanced proficiency in Python for AI/ML application development\nDemonstrated experience building or integrating LLM/agent-based systems in production\nExperience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, and prompt/context engineering\nAbility to manage competing priorities in fast-paced mission environments and identify/escalate operational risks early\nPreference to Candidates that Have:\nMaster's degree and 8+ years of relevant experience\nExperience supporting USCYBERCOM, NSA, DoD cyber operations, or related mission environments\nExperience with frameworks such as LangGraph, Agno, or the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit\nExperience with model inference/serving platforms (NVIDIA NIM, vLLM, Ollama, LiteLLM)\nExperience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar tool-broker/integration standards\nExperience with AI evaluation frameworks, model benchmarking, and observability (logs/metrics/traces) for AI workloads\nExperience supporting USCYBERCOM, NSA, or DoD AI/cyber mission environments\nCOMPENSATION & BENEFITS\nAt SIXGEN, we are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. 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