# Applied AI Engineer

Description Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph is required. Visionist has an exciting new, fully FUNDED opportunity for an Applied AI Engineer on our largest PRIME contract. Our team of Analysts and Engineers is motivated by the direct impact on the mission, crafting specialized tools for enhanced efficiency and quick iterations for our operations user base. Seeing your tools in real-time action brings immediate gratification. This premier program encompasses traditional software services including Systems Design and Engineering, Database Administration, Data Science and Knowledge Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Integration and Test, as well as Operations and Systems Support. The program is characterized by innovation and excitement, fostering meaningful engagements, and offering distinctive collaboration opportunities with users, policy makers, and mission leadership, all while maintaining a service mindset. If you thrive in a collaborative work environment and enjoy utilizing a diverse tech stack, then this opportunity is tailor-made for you! For over 16 years, Visionist has been solving the Intelligence Community's toughest software and analysis challeng

- **Id**: 4178198
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/visionist-applied-ai-engineer-2>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Columbia, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T16:42:21Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T16:42:21Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5225
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule, Life insurance, Parental leave, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: National Security

## Company

- **Id**: 4413794
- **Name**: Visionist
- **Domain**: visionistinc.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/visionist-3>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Jobvite

## Salary

- **Min**: 115000
- **Max**: 185000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 185000

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T16:42:21Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 12
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T18:28:31Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 185000
- **Is top pay**: no

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