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We are committed to hiring the best of the best, and in return, we offer a world-class, truly unique employee experience that is rare within our industry.\nSeeking a motivated Senior AI Engineer with a proven track record in software engineering and deep understanding of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) techniques to support the exciting new AI and Emerging Technologies (AI&ET) mission. The engineer will work closely with mission stakeholders to capture requirements, aid in structured planning, and improve the certification process by introducing AI/ML tooling. Additionally, the engineer will use AI/ML to develop tools and techniques to include fine tuning Large Language Models (LLM) that assist in enhanced vulnerability identification and mitigation capabilities.\n Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency appropriate polygraph).\nCapabilities\nCollaborate closely with technical leadership to design, develop, and maintain LLM orchestration frameworks that coordinate static analyzers, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and automated testing pipelines.\nDevelop and optimize data preprocessing pipelines to ingest, clean, transform, and vectorize product documentation, source code, and test results for LLM consumption.\nDesign and implement database solutions to support RAG architectures, artifact storage, audit trails, and metadata management.\nCollaboratively work with systems engineers to architect and deploy networked AI tools within secure enclaves and conduct performance profiling, optimization, and scalability analysis of mission systems.\nSupport security assessments and authority to operate (ATO) processes.\nRequired Qualifications\nTS/SCI with agency appropriate poly\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, plus 8-years of relevant experience or equivalent.\nRequired Technical Skills\nProficiency in Python, LLM integration, and data engineering. 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