AI Engineer

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Niyam IT was founded in 2007 by a group of consultants who shared a unique vision: a technology company steeped in orderly process yet driven by passion and innovation. Over the following decade we fine-tuned our craft and built an impressive track record of successful outcomes securing our reputation as the go-to provider of smart innovative solutions.

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Niyam is seeking an experienced AI Engineer to support one of our federal clients. The AI Engineer will support the development integration and sustainment of AI-enabled capabilities within a secure mobile and cloud-based application in a federal environment. Working as part of a cross-functional Agile team this role will focus on implementing and maintaining generative AI features including LLM-powered services and retrieval-augmented generation solutions under the guidance of senior technical leadership. The AI Engineer will contribute to day-to-day development deployment and operational support activities while following established DevSecOps security and compliance practices.This position will be onsite at client location in Ashburn VA three (3) days per week.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Support the development and maintenance of AI-enabled features within a secure mobile and cloud-based application as part of a cross-functional Agile team.
• Implement and integrate generative AI components including prompt-based workflows and LLM-powered services under the guidance of the Solution Architect or Technical Lead.
• Assist in building and maintaining retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions using embeddings and vector stores to support semantic search and data retrieval use cases.
• Deploy and operate AI/ML models using managed cloud platforms such as Vertex AI AWS SageMaker or Azure ML following established deployment and monitoring patterns.
• Develop Python-based services and scripts using approved coding standards version control practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and complete assigned tasks within sprint timelines contributing to team deliverables and continuous improvement efforts.
• Follow established DevSecOps security and privacy requirements when developing and operating AI solutions in a federal environment.
• Document technical implementations and operational procedures to support system sustainment audits and knowledge sharing.
• Support demonstrations of the solutions or technologies under consideration to internal and/or client teams.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

• US Citizenship with ability to successfully complete a federal background investigation.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Software Engineering or related field (equivalent practical experience may be considered).
• 3 years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of production systems.
• Strong understanding of modern generative AI systems including LLM architectures training vs inference tradeoffs and prompt and agent design.
• Hands on experience with Vertex AI or equivalent platforms such as SageMaker or Azure ML for model deployment monitoring and scaling.
• Experience building LLM-powered applications using embeddings and vector stores for retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search.
• Strong understanding of AI ethics bias mitigation and explainability.
• Proficiency in Python with strong software engineering fundamentals including testing version control and CI/CD.
• Experience optimizing latency cost and reliability of AI services in distributed production environments.
• Ability to reason about model limitations data quality security and privacy in real-world AI deployments.

Preferred Skills:

• AI/ML technologies.
  
• Agile SAFe delivery.
• CI/CD.
• DevSecOps.

Application Deadline:This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

Niyam IT Inc. is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race color creed religion sex sexual orientation gender identity pregnancy marital status partnership status age citizenship status veteran or military status medical condition genetic information national origin disability unemployment status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal state and/or local laws.

Required Experience:

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