AI Engineer

PeopleTec is currently seeking an AI Engineer to support our Huntsville AL location (on-site).

PeopleTec is looking for an amazingly talentedAI Engineerto join our team! In this role you will get 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 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.

Duties:

• 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.

Required Skills/Experience:

• 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.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• An active DoD Secret clearance is required to perform this work. Candidates are required to have an active Secret clearance upon hire and the ability to maintain this level of clearance during their employment.

Education Requirements:

• Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering Data Science Mathematics or related field and 12 years of relevant experience

Desired Skills:

• 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.

People First. Technology Always.

PeopleTec Inc. is an employee-owned small business founded in Huntsville AL that provides exceptional customer support by employing and retaining a highly skilled workforce.

Culture: The name PeopleTec was deliberately chosen to remind us of our core value system - our people. Our companys foundation was built on placing our employees and customers first. With an award-winning atmosphere we have matured into a company that boasts the best and brightest across multiple technical fields.

Career: At PeopleTec we value your long-term goals. Whether its through our continuing-education opportunities our robust training programs or our People First benefits package PeopleTec truly believes that our best investments are our people.

Come Experience It.

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EEO Statement

PeopleTec Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in its job application procedures. If you have any difficulty using our online system and you need an accommodation due to a disability you may use the following email address and/or phone number (256.319.3800) to contact us about your interest in employment with PeopleTec Inc.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age genetic information citizenship ancestry marital status protected veteran status disability status or any other status protected by federal state or local law. PeopleTec Inc. participates in E-Verify.