AI Engineer

About This Role

As an AI Engineer at NSA, you will design and implement mission-critical AI systems, intersecting data science, software, and systems engineering. This role focuses on building, deploying, and maintaining AI systems at scale for intelligence collection, processing, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead or contribute to cross-functional teams to develop and operationalize AI solutions
• Apply modern engineering techniques to design, develop, deploy, and maintain end-to-end AI workflows
• Adapt and integrate diverse AI model architectures to address complex mission-critical challenges
• Monitor and maintain AI products through systematic identification of performance degradation and computational inefficiency
• Maintain knowledge of current AI research and adapt emerging techniques to intelligence applications
• Test and evaluate AI solutions against mission requirements and produce actionable recommendations

Requirements

• Ability to complete the Data Science Examination (DSE)
• Transcripts for each academic institution (required for interview)
• Relevant experience in one or more of: implementing production scale AI/ML solutions, distributed model training, distributed AI/ML systems, AI/ML performance monitoring, platform engineering, cloud engineering, developing deep learning models, neural networks, sustaining/maintaining AI/ML models, implementing AI/ML algorithms, AI/ML model development and deployment, DevOps, MLOps, cloud infrastructure management, software engineering, automated testing, or containerization.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree plus 2 years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor's degree and no experience, or a Master's degree and no experience, in Computer Science or engineering (for entry level); or Associate's degree plus 3 years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor's degree and 1 year of relevant experience, in Information Systems, Information Technology, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Applied Statistics, Operations Research, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or Physical or Biological Sciences (for entry level).
• Entry is with an Associate's degree plus 2 years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor's degree and no experience, or a Master's degree and no experience.

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits