AIML Engineer

Position: AI/ML Engineer

Location: Annapolis MD (remote after the first week of on-site onboarding)

Duration: 5 years

Responsibilities:

System Design & Collaboration:

• Work within established constraints regarding infrastructure programming languages and model selection
• Contribute to technical decision-making related to data processing retrieval strategies and system integration
• Collaborate with team members to define agent architectures workflows and system design decisions
• Evaluate and select appropriate approaches for given tasks including determining when to use LLM-based versus non-LLM techniques
• Designing and building software systems that integrate AI/ML techniques to automate tasks assist internal users and improve user-facing services.

Testing Evaluation and Quality Assurance:

• Assist in the design and implementation of testing and evaluation pipelines for AI/ML systems
• Develop unit and integration tests for AI-enabled workflows and data pipelines
• Generate and utilize synthetic data to support evaluation and benchmarking efforts
• Contribute to improving system performance including accuracy latency and cost efficiency

Deployment & Operations:

• Support deployment of AI/ML applications within a hybrid cloud environment
• Work with containerized applications to ensure reliable deployment and updates.
• Optimize systems for environments with limited computational resources including minimal GPU availability

General Responsibilities:

• Deliver production-grade systems aligned with defined requirements while supporting iterative improvement of evolving tools
• Document system designs workflows and technical decisions as required
• Stay informed on relevant advancements in AI/ML and apply them where appropriate within project constraints

RESOURCE QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering Computer Science Data Science or Mathematics or a related field (as determined by the AOC).

Experience:

• At least three (3) years experience in data science machine learning or applied AI development.
• At least three (3) years experience in software engineering architecture or web development.

Skills and Experience required:

Experience with:

• SQL and relational database systems (e.g. PostgreSQL)
• Fine-tuning small language models or embedding models
• Contributing to or maintaining open-source software projects
• Graph databases or graph extensions (e.g. Neo4j Apache AGE)
• Designing and implementing multi-agent or task-oriented AI systems