AI Systems Engineer

The AI Systems Engineer is responsible for designing building and delivering practical artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions that support internal research development and business applications.

This position combines hands-on software development deep learning and systems architecture to translate customer needs and emerging ideas into clear technical requirements reliable solution designs and working products. The role will support the development and deployment of advanced AI capabilities including agentic AI systems operating in secure air-gapped on-premises and edge environments.

The ideal candidate is a curious self-directed technical builder who takes initiative enjoys solving complex problems and can independently drive work from concept through implementation. This individual will own key technical efforts mentor junior engineers collaborate with technology leaders and help strengthen the organizations broader AI capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Design develop test and deploy AI-enabled applications and solutions.
• Create and implement AI systems that leverage LLMs autonomous workflows tool integration and agentic solutions.
• Develop AI-driven automation solutions to improve operational efficiency and decision-making.
• Build and integrate AI agents using commercial and open-source AI platforms and frameworks.
• Collaborate with engineers data scientists developers and business stakeholders to identify AI use cases and deliver effective solutions.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend innovative approaches to customer challenges.
• Develop technical documentation demonstrations prototypes and proof-of-concept solutions.
• Support customer engagements technical presentations and solution demonstrations.

• Bachelors degree in Systems Engineering Computer Science Software Engineering Data Science Applied Mathematics or a related field or equivalent practical experience demonstrated through delivered software and AI solutions.
• At least 5 years of professional development experience including at least 3 years building integrating or deploying machine learning or LLM-based capabilities.
• Strong Python proficiency including maintainable tested code and integration of ML/LLM capabilities into larger applications.
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch or a comparable framework for training fine-tuning or evaluating models.
• Solid ML fundamentals including data preparation evaluation and generalization and a practical understanding of transformer models including embeddings tokenization attention and context limits.
• Experience deploying models or LLM services behind APIs with working knowledge of latency throughput and GPU resource tradeoffs.
• Hands-on experience building LLM-based workflows or agents including tool integration RAG context and state management structured outputs and retries and failure recovery.
• Ability to design repeatable evaluations of model and agent behavior including baselines meaningful metrics and diagnosis of failure modes.
• Working knowledge of AI application security including least-privilege tool access secrets management audit logging and prompt-injection and data-exfiltration risks.
• Experience designing software components and interfaces making sound technical tradeoffs and judging when a simpler non-AI approach is sufficient.
• Experience with version control code review testing and tracking tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.

Desired Qualifications

• Active Secret security clearance.
• Experience developing AI solutions for Department of Defense or Federal Government customers including SBIR/STTR proposals technical capture applied research or transitioning prototypes into operational capabilities.
• Experience with AI platforms and agent frameworks such as Azure AI Foundry Microsoft Copilot Studio OpenAI Anthropic Claude LangGraph LangChain Semantic Kernel CrewAI or AutoGen including multi-agent orchestration.
• Cybersecurity and secure development experience including DevSecOps practices such as CI/CD automated security testing containerization or infrastructure as code.
• Experience deploying AI systems in air-gapped on-premises or resource-constrained edge environments including managing offline dependencies and model artifacts and configuring GPU workstations servers or edge hardware.
• Familiarity with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework or comparable AI risk and assurance practices.
• Experience with model optimization such as fine-tuning distillation quantization or multi-GPU and distributed inference.
• Experience with MLOps practices such as experiment tracking data and model versioning deployment and production monitoring.
• Experience with Rust or another systems programming language.

About us: We are Command Post Technologies Inc. (CPT). CPT is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) providing engineering services in the areas of Cyber Security Software Development Test & Evaluation and Strategic Planning. CPT employees appreciate working in a caring environment that promotes a healthy work-life balance. As individuals we come together as a team supporting a culture rooted in our core principles of integrity determination and all of CPTs collaboration efforts our team prioritizes communication accountability and being resourceful in order to maximize efficiency and results.

Whats In It for You

Great health benefits (for more info contact us directly)

Leadership training

401k with generous company matching

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

Career professional development

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible hours

Work/Life balance

Rewards and recognition

Paid Time Off

Parental Leave

Command Post Technologies Inc. (CPT) is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) founded in 2008 and headquartered in Suffolk VA with personnel in various states including Virginia Maryland Florida and Texas. With 2/3 of our staff being former military CPT firmly believes in employing veterans. Command Post Technologies Inc. is a unique provider of innovative solutions that enhance our corporate clients productivity and empower our government clients with the ability to protect against all enemies: foreign and domestic. CPT adapts its successful military experiential approach to the needs of leaders in a global business environment and provides an elite leadership curriculum that results in a world-class leadership-altering event.

Command Post Technologies Inc. (CPT) is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We consider applicants without regard to race color religion age national origin ancestry ethnicity gender gender identify gender expression sex sexual orientation marital status veteran status disability genetic information citizenship status or membership in any other group protected by federal state or local law. We take Affirmative Action to ensure equal opportunities for employees and potential employees without regard to race color religion age national origin ancestry ethnicity gender gender identity gender expression sex sexual orientation marital status veteran status disability genetic information citizenship status or membership in any other group protected by federal state or local law.

We abide by the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision and will refrain from discharging or otherwise discriminating against employees or applicants who inquire about discuss or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants. An exception exists where the employee or applicant makes the disclosure based on information obtained while performing his or her essential job functions.