AI Engineer – Architect

Job Description:

• Lead the design, architecture, and product roadmap of next-generation AI/ML and LLM solutions for customers
• Showcase solutions through customer-facing exercises, demonstrations, and pace-setting projects
• Collaborate with business development and capture teams on bids, proposals, and OTA efforts
• Partner with on-program teams to deliver AI/ML solutions and bring innovation to programs
• Grow AI projects from proof of concept to production
• Engage stakeholders, identify new opportunities, and drive outcome-based value of AI/ML and LLM solutions
• Distill complex requirements into actionable deliverables
• Guide multidisciplinary teams
• Support missions across edge AI and sensing, autonomous systems, intelligence analysis, contested logistics, and training and readiness

Requirements:

• BA/BS or equivalent
• 10+ years of related experience
• Proven experience growing AI projects from proof of concept to production in edge AI and sensing, autonomous systems, intelligence analysis, contested logistics, or training and readiness
• Excellent consultative selling skills and ability to engage stakeholders, identify opportunities, and drive outcome-based value of AI/ML or LLM solutions
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• Ability to distill complex requirements into actionable deliverables and guide multidisciplinary teams
• Willingness to travel up to 25%
• Experience supporting U.S. Department of War programs
• Experience with multi-tenant, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecture patterns
• Secret clearance required to start, with ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret clearance
• US citizenship required
• AWS, Azure, or similar cloud experience preferred
• Programming experience with Java, Rust, Python, or similar languages preferred
• Experience building and training classification and prediction models and leveraging large language models and agentic workflows preferred

Benefits:

• Comprehensive medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts
• Dental plan options
• Vision plan options
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• Paid vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave
• Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees
• Short- and long-term disability benefits
• Life insurance
• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Personal accident insurance
• Critical illness insurance
• Business travel and accident insurance
• AI-powered career tool identifying career steps and learning opportunities
• Internal mobility team supporting career goals
• Award-winning culture of innovation and military-friendly workplace
• Competitive pay
• Remote work / telecommuting options