AI Engineer

Founded in 2009 RSC2 Inc. is a Small Business Administration (SBA) Certified HUBZone Professional Services company headquartered in Baltimore Maryland. RSC2 provides breakthrough expertise support services and technologies to make operations programs and systems of record perform better. Our professional staff is trained to provide world-class services to all types of customers. We uphold the integrity and quality of our work so you can expect only the best from us.

RSC2 is seeking an amazingly talented AI Engineer to join our team in Hanover MD!

In this role you will get to provide technical advisory support for the design evaluation and advancement of AI-enabled applications tools and workflows. This role is intended for a hands-on technical professional who understands how modern AI systems are built and can help guide teams developing practical solutions using large language models agentic workflows orchestration frameworks and supporting software infrastructure.

The right candidate is a builder at heartsomeone who explores new frameworks prototypes ideas and continuously teaches themselves emerging techniques. Curiosity and passion matter greatly in this role. We want someone who follows the fast-moving AI ecosystem because they genuinely enjoy it not just because the job requires it.

What Youll Be Doing:

• Provide SETA support to government teams developing or assessing AI-enabled applications and tools.
• Advise on technical approaches for AI application design prototyping integration and evaluation.
• Assess solutions involving LLMs retrieval-augmented generation tool use agentic workflows orchestration layers prompt pipelines and evaluation harnesses.
• Support the review of architectures development approaches model usage patterns and technical risk areas.
• Advise on AI engineering considerations such as latency reliability observability testability guardrails data flow and system integration.
• Evaluate and compare modern AI frameworks agentic libraries and experimentation harnesses for suitability in mission use cases.
• Assist with the development of technical guidance prototypes engineering recommendations and briefings for government stakeholders.
• Support test and evaluation activities for AI tools including performance assessment qualitative review and workflow validation.
• Collaborate with platform engineers product leads mission users and government leadership to ensure AI efforts remain technically grounded and operationally relevant.
• Stay current on rapid changes in the AI ecosystem and provide informed recommendations on emerging tools and practices.

What Required Skills Youll Bring:

• Active TS SCI w/ CI Polygraph security clearance required
• Min 18 years with Bachelors 15 years with Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering Data Science Mathematics or related field.
• Experience designing building integrating or evaluating AI/ML-enabled applications or software tools.
• Familiarity with modern AI application patterns including LLM-based applications RAG prompt engineering agentic systems and AI-assisted workflows.
• Working knowledge of one or more agentic or orchestration frameworks such as LangChain LangGraph Semantic Kernel AutoGen CrewAI Haystack LlamaIndex or similar ecosystems.
• Experience with software development fundamentals APIs data handling and system integration.
• Ability to assess technical tradeoffs and communicate them clearly to both engineers and government stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

What Desired Skills Youll Bring:

• Experience with Python JavaScript/TypeScript or similar languages commonly used in AI application development.
• Familiarity with vector databases embeddings model APIs evaluation frameworks and agent testing harnesses.
• Exposure to model hosting inference pipelines or cloud-based AI development environments.
• Understanding of secure AI development practices data protection and operational constraints in government settings.
• Experience supporting defense cyber intelligence or mission application development.
• Familiarity with human-in-the-loop workflows AI assurance and evaluation methodologies.

Work Location: Hanover MD

Employment Type: Full-time Salary-Exempt

Benefits Package: We offer a top tier benefits package which includes medical dental vision PTO employer matching retirement plan and more!

We are an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or any other protected characteristic. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process please contact us at

Salary at RSC2 is determined by various factors including but not limited to location the particular combination of education knowledge skills competencies and experience as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $118067- $263155 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical total compensation range for this position.