Enter a job title or keyword
Senior AIML Engineering Architect — TSSCI w Polygraph (Hybrid)
Job Location:
Job Location:
Herndon, VA - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 200000 - 240000
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
17 September 2026 (4 days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
15 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Senior AI/ML Engineering Architect TS/SCI w/ Polygraph
Location: Hybrid Herndon VA (Required)
Clearance: Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph
Compensation: $200000 $240000 base salary
About Finch AI
Finch AI exists because you cant miss. We build AI-powered solutions that transform raw information into decisive action. We deliver accurate trusted real-time insights from data so that analysts operators and executives can understand risk and act with confidence even when the data is massive complex and time-sensitive.
Our platform serves organizations across national security research security defense finance law enforcement and legal sectors. We dont start with our technology we start with your challenge. Our integrated approach combines a powerful platform deep domain expertise and the flexibility to meet customers where they are.
Finch AI holds 30 patents and has had products deployed to government agencies for over 15 years. Our team spans former analysts PhD data scientists & AI engineers and commercial data specialists who have developed products and capabilities at some of the largest tech companies and agencies in the world.
Our culture:
We operate as a mission-flexible organization where integrity is at the center of everything we do. We value sharp questions challenged assumptions and cross-disciplinary collaboration. No bureaucracy stands between great ideas and real impact ownership is trusted expertise is shared freely and the work genuinely matters.
Were looking for people who are energized by complex high-stakes problems; who care about accuracy transparency and building technology people can trust; and who communicate with clarity and curiosity in a distributed environment. If that sounds like you wed love to talk.
The Role
The systems youll build here are the engine behind that mission and in this role theyll run in some of the most demanding environments in the federal government. Youll join the team building Finch AIs next generation of products helping design and build systems behind them end to end from design through production deployment in cleared customer environments and across the broader business. As a technical leader in generative AI and large language models youll help set direction on how LLMs and SLMs are applied across the product line.
Responsibilities
- Lead the evaluation fine-tuning and deployment of large language models (LLMs) and small language models (SLMs) in production applications.
- Build AI-enabled applications using agentic AI retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and prompt engineering.
- Design develop and evaluate machine learning models for text analytics extraction disambiguation classification including custom algorithm development where off-the-shelf approaches fall short.
- Carry solution designs from proof of concept and prototype through to shipped features in existing products.
- Collaborate with customer teams to deliver mission-aligned AI solutions within classified environments.
- Partner with product teams and stakeholders in an Agile environment communicating clearly with technical and non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM and SLM applications: agentic AI RAG prompt engineering and fine-tuning.
- Production experience with NLP systems for data classification entity extraction and information extraction covering the full lifecycle collecting and preparing training data training supervised and unsupervised models tuning hyperparameters and analyzing model errors.
- Applied deep learning for NLP plus strong working knowledge of Bayesian statistics statistical analysis and predictive modeling.
- Strong Python skills; a second language such as Java Go or C is a plus.
- Working familiarity with LangGraph PyTorch Hugging Face Transformers spaCy scikit-learn NumPy Pandas and Jupyter.
- Experience with SQL NoSQL and graph databases.
- 5 years of experience building commercial software products.
- MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience (Bachelors degree minimum).
- Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph
Finch AI is an equal opportunity employer. Reasonable accommodations are available during the hiring process by contacting .
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Finch Computing develops innovative solutions that solve complex, unstructured text challenges in real-time and at scale.
