AI Engineer

AI Engineer

Company Overview:

KODA is a people-first company and a three-time Fortune Best Workplace Great Place to Work certified a Best Place for Working Parents and a seven-time Huntsville Best Places to Work winner.

Were a small business making a big impact on national-priority missions in missile defense hypersonics DoD space and civil space. At KODA youll find:

• Competitive pay & great benefits
• Career growth & professional development
• A culture of trust integrity and teamwork

The name KODA meaning allies reflects our commitment to our people our customers and our community. Join us and build a career that matters!

Position Overview:

KODA Technologies is seeking an AI Engineer to provide technical 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 develop practical solutions using large language models agentic workflows orchestration frameworks and supporting software infrastructure. The right candidate is a builder at heart-someone 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.

Responsibilities:

• 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.

Requirments:

• Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering Data Science Mathematics or related field and 12 years of relevant experience
• Active Secret clearance required
• 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.
• 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.

Preferred Requirements:

• Ability to obtain a TS SCI clearance required
• 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.
• Working knowledge of one or more agentic or orchestration frameworks such as LangChain LangGraph Semantic Kernel AutoGen CrewAI Haystack LlamaIndex or similar ecosystems.

Clearance: U.S. Citizenship and an Active Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain a TS SCI clearance required

KODA Technologies Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex gender identity sexual orientation pregnancy status as a parent national origin disability (physical or mental) family medical history or genetic information political affiliation military service or other non-merit based factors. If you are unable to complete this application due to a disability contact to ask for an accommodation or an alternative application process.

Required Experience:

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