AI Engineer – SME
Columbia, SC - USA
Job Summary
ARSIEM is looking for an amazingly talented AI Engineer to join our team! 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.
This position will support one of our Government clients in Columbia Maryland.
- 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 involvingLLMs 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.
- 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 includingLLM-based applications RAG prompt engineering agentic systems and AI-assisted workflows.
- Working knowledge of one or more agentic or orchestration frameworks such asLangChain 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.
- 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.
Candidate Referral: Do you know someone who would be GREAT at this role If you do ARSIEM has a way for you to earn a bonus through our referral program for persons presenting NEW (not in our resume database) candidates who are successfully placed on one of our projects. The bonus for this position is $3500 and the referrer is eligible to receive the sum for any applicant we place within 12 months of referral. The bonus is paid after the referred employee reaches 6 months of employment.
Required Experience:
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