# Lead Applied AI Engineer

About the Team STR’s Intelligence Division researches, develops, and transitions advanced analytics and machine-learning solutions for challenging national-security problems. Our team includes engineers and researchers with advanced backgrounds in engineering, computer science, mathematics, and data science who apply deep technical expertise and creativity to mission-critical challenges. Our work spans data analysis, deep learning, and statistical methods across networking, communications, social media, text, time series, geospatial, and imagery data. We develop capabilities under constraints not typically encountered in commercial environments. U.S. Government analysts use our tools and technologies to extract, enrich, and act on intelligence information worldwide. The Role As a Lead Applied AI Engineer, you will lead the technical development and delivery of RF AI/ML-based tools, algorithms, and software integrated with physical hardware, sensors, and compute, focusing on Radio Frequency (RF) communications, Open RAN, 5G/6G communications, waveform generation/adaptation, and wireless communications and networking infrastructure. You will lead the design, implementation, integrati

- **Id**: 4033762
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/systems-and-technology-research-lead-applied-ai-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Arlington, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T15:17:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T20:23:47Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9428
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: C4ISR, Cyber Warfare, Defense AI

## Company

- **Id**: 5401
- **Name**: Systems and Technology Research
- **Domain**: str.us
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/str>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.564
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 49
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 180000
- **Max**: 230000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 230000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Edge AI** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Radar Signal Processing** — Optional: no
- **Time Series** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T19:29:00Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 4; Filings 12m: 4

## Liveness

- **Score**: 60
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.602
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 49
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 230000
- **Is top pay**: no

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