AI Engineer - Entry to Expert Level

CNSS • National Security Systems Eldorado, MD $87,362 - $197,200
Full Time Entry Level

Posted 1 week ago

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About This Role

This role involves building, deploying, and maintaining artificial intelligence (AI) systems at scale for mission-critical intelligence collection, processing, and reporting. AI Engineers will combine expertise from data science, software engineering, data engineering, and systems engineering to manage the entire AI lifecycle.

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, natural language processors, and large language models
  • 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

  • Knowledge of statistics, mathematics, and computer science topics related to data science
  • Proficiency in Python or other relevant languages (C++, Java, Scala, TypeScript)
  • Experience with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Jax)
  • Experience with version control (Git)
  • Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • 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 an Associate's degree plus 2-3 years, or Bachelor's with 0-1 year, or Master's with no experience. Full Performance to Expert levels require increasing years of relevant experience, up to 11 years with an Associate's degree.

Nice to Have

  • Experience serving as an AI Project Team Leader/model owner (for Expert level)

Skills

Python * SQL * AWS * Azure * Communication * Java * Kubernetes * Docker * C++ * DevOps * TensorFlow * PyTorch * Git * CI/CD * TypeScript * NoSQL * LLMs * GCP * NLP * Spark * Scala * MLOps * Computer Vision * Microservices Architecture * Technical Documentation * Ray * API design * JAX * Dask * Cross-function collaboration *

* Required skills

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

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