AI Engineer
Fort Meade, MD - USA
Job Summary
Hoplite Solutions is seeking a motivated AI Engineer with a proven track record in software engineering and deep understanding of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) techniques to support the exciting new AI and Emerging Technologies (AI&ET) mission. The engineer will work closely with mission stakeholders to capture requirements aid in structured planning and improve the certification process by introducing AI/ML tooling. Additionally the engineer will use AI/ML to develop tools and techniques to include fine tuning Large Language Models (LLM) that assist in enhanced vulnerability identification and mitigation capabilities.
Mission Focus:
Technical Proficiency:
Basic Qualifications:
Desirable Skills:
At Hoplite Solutions we pride ourselves on offering competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. This includes full coverage for health dental and vision insurance for both individuals and families along with 100% coverage for life insurance long-term and short-term disability. Additionally we match up to 7% of employees contributions to their 401(k) funds and follow the federal holiday calendar for paid holidays. With 4 weeks of paid time off and $5000 yearly for education assistance or technical training were dedicated to supporting our employees professional and personal growth.
Mission Focus:
- Collaborate closely with technical leadership to design develop and maintain LLM orchestration frameworks that coordinate static analyzers retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems and automated testing pipelines.
- Develop and optimize data preprocessing pipelines to ingest clean transform and vectorize product documentation source code and test results for LLM consumption.
- Design and implement database solutions to support RAG architectures artifact storage audit trails and metadata management.
Technical Proficiency:
- Collaboratively work with systems engineers to architect and deploy networked AI tools within secure enclaves and conduct performance profiling optimization and scalability analysis of mission systems.
- Support security assessments and authority to operate (ATO) processes.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree plus 5-years of relevant experience or equivalent.
- Proficiency in Python LLM integration and data engineering.
- Experience with static analyzers RAG framework and relational and vector databases.
- Familiarization with Agile Git Jira and Confluence.
- Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.
Desirable Skills:
- Familiarization with RUST Claude Code Codex and CI/CD.
At Hoplite Solutions we pride ourselves on offering competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. This includes full coverage for health dental and vision insurance for both individuals and families along with 100% coverage for life insurance long-term and short-term disability. Additionally we match up to 7% of employees contributions to their 401(k) funds and follow the federal holiday calendar for paid holidays. With 4 weeks of paid time off and $5000 yearly for education assistance or technical training were dedicated to supporting our employees professional and personal growth.
Required Experience:
Manager
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About Company
Hoplite Solutions delivers a range of services throughout Information Technology, Engineering and Project Management to keep your projects running smoothly.