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Our autonomous, air-launched Talon-A vehicles provide access to operationally realistic flight environments at speeds exceeding Mach 5, delivering critical data that helps customers validate system performance and advance technologies toward deployment. Our team brings together expertise in engineering, manufacturing, and flight operations to solve complex challenges and advance capabilities essential to national security.\nThe AI Solutions Engineer contributes to the development, integration, and operation of AI capabilities across Stratolaunch. The Enterprise Software Team integrates a mix of COTS and custom tools to provide the right data, functionality, and AI-enabled capabilities to the right user at the right time.\nThis position will focus on the infrastructure, integrations, observability, and developer tools required to operationalize AI for vehicle design, manufacture, flight test, and business teams. Responsibilities may include hosting and maintaining large language model (LLM) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems; developing logging and monitoring capabilities; operating AI workloads in AWS; optimizing vector search systems such as Qdrant; and building APIs, plugins, SDKs, and command-line tools for internal users.\nThe AI Platform and MLOps Engineer will also evaluate and integrate COTS solutions, third-party services, open-source tools, and internally developed applications. Potential applications include meeting summarization and scheduling, CAD integrations, OpenWebUI and Hugging Face tools, team-specific plugins, and reusable software development kits. The scope of this position may be tailored to the selected candidate’s interests and experience, with particular opportunity for candidates experienced in ML workload optimization and cloud-based model operations.\nESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES\nDesign, deploy, and operate reliable infrastructure for ML, LLM, and RAG workloads, with a focus on running and optimizing models in AWS and supporting future AI compute requirements.\nHost, maintain, monitor, and optimize RAG systems, including Qdrant and other retrieval infrastructure, while developing the logging, observability, and alerting needed to assess system health, performance, cost, and reliability.\nServe as a subject matter expert for MLOps and AI workload operations, including model deployment, inference services, resource utilization, and production support.\nIntegrate and support COTS products, third-party services, open-source tools, and custom AI capabilities, sharing responsibility for their monitoring, security, cost, performance, and reliability.\nDevelop APIs, plugins, and reusable integrations that make AI capabilities available to Stratolaunch teams, including tools for OpenWebUI, Hugging Face, Wilbur, and other applicable platforms.\nCollaborate with internal stakeholders to develop team-specific AI integrations and workflows, and to deliver practical interfaces between AI services and existing applications, including frontend applications, Streamlit services, NGINX load balancers, and other web infrastructure.\nCollaborate with software, data, infrastructure, security, and domain teams to evaluate AI technologies and deliver maintainable, user-focused solutions.\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\nRequired\nExperience designing, deploying, and operating reliable, observable software or ML systems in production.\nExperience with ML workloads, cloud infrastructure, and model deployment, preferably in AWS.\nExperience with one or more programming languages, such as Python, Rust, C, MATLAB, or equivalent.\nExperience developing and integrating APIs, services, plugins, or other software interfaces.\nExperience with containerization, deployment, and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Dagster, or equivalent tools.\nExperience with logging, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support.\nComfort with CLI tools and shell scripting, such as Bash or Windows batch scripting.\nKnowledge of DevSecOps and CI/CD systems, such as Jenkins, GitLab, Bamboo, or equivalent tools.\nExperience integrating COTS products, third-party services, APIs, or open-source software into production environments.\nAbility to collaborate with stakeholders to evaluate technical options and deliver practical solutions.\nPreferred\nMLOps experience, including hosting, maintaining, monitoring, and optimizing LLM and RAG systems.\nExperience running models and inference workloads in AWS, including services such as EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, and CloudWatch.\nExperience optimizing RAG systems, vector databases, and retrieval pipelines, including Qdrant.\nFamiliarity with LLM APIs, embedding models, Hugging Face tools or plugins, OpenWebUI, and related AI application frameworks.\nExperience developing reusable plugins, SDKs, CLIs, or developer platforms for multiple teams.\nExperience with frontend and backend integration, Streamlit, NGINX, reverse proxies, load balancing, or related web-service infrastructure.\nExperience evaluating AI systems based on performance, latency, scalability, reliability, cost, and resource utilization.\nFamiliarity with relational, non-relational, and vector databases, such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Qdrant.\nAerospace experience or familiarity with engineering, CAD, analytics, visualization, or flight-test workflows.\nEDUCATION & EXPERIENCE\nBS in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field, or applicable experience in lieu of degree.\n5-10 years professional experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, data engineering, MLOps, AI engineering, or a related discipline.\n$142,000-$165,000\n\nSpecial remarks regarding work environment, if applicable\nThis position is located in Mojave, CA\nNo travel required\n9/80 Schedule\nBase salary and leveling are established on a case-by-case basis. We consider several factors to ensure a competitive offer, including your location, educational background, and a comprehensive assessment of the skills and experience demonstrated during your interviews.\nBenefits and our location(s) : \nHealthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs)\nPaid Maternity and Parental Leave\n50% company match per contributed dollar into 401(k) savings plan, up to $11,500\nTuition reimbursement\nThis position may involve the operation of company vehicles as part of assigned duties.\nMojave Air & Spaceport is located just outside of Lancaster/Palmdale and is only 95 miles north of Los Angeles. The area offers both affordability and central access to a variety of California's best attractions and landmarks. \nNot much for the outdoors and prefer the city life? You’re within a half day’s drive or less of Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, and San Francisco where you can find a variety of live entertainment, museums, tours, and historical sight-seeing. Theme parks are in abundance, with Six Flags Magic Mountain, Disneyland, and Knotts Berry Farm ready to meet the needs of rollercoaster thrill seekers. \nFood and drink fanatics are in a haven of delectable choices. Wine aficionados will also find easy access to some of the state’s best vino in Paso Robles, Santa Ynez, and even more locally in Tehachapi and Agua Dulce. Beer fanatics will find some of the best West Coast IPAs at Bravery and Lucky Luke’s in Lancaster. Any food option you crave is covered, and we always recommend the authentic and fresh Mexican food that you won’t find anywhere else in the United States.\nStratolaunch is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity at our company. 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