AI Engineer

About This Role

As an AI Engineer at NSA, you will design and implement mission-critical AI systems to support intelligence collection, processing, and reporting. This role involves leading or contributing to cross-functional teams to develop and operationalize AI solutions at scale.

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, including computer vision, NLP, audio processors, LLMs, and multi-modal frameworks
• 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 pass the Data Science Examination (DSE)
• Transcripts for each academic institution required
• If Engineering degree, specified coursework (if not ABET accredited)
• Relevant experience in 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, Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctoral degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Applied Statistics, Operations Research, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or Physical or Biological Sciences
• Entry level with Associate's degree plus 2 years relevant experience, or Bachelor's without experience, or Master's without experience for CS/Engineering degrees. Entry level with Associate's degree plus 3 years relevant experience, or Bachelor's plus 1 year relevant experience for other specified degrees.

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits