Leidos

Senior AI Integration Engineer

Leidos

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: AlexandriaMarylandVirginiaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $107,900 - $195,050 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Implement AI components within existing systems and workflows to support operational use.
  • Design and manage interfaces and APIs that connect AI models to enterprise platforms.
  • Ensure reliable production performance by monitoring data flows, validating system interactions, and resolving integration issues.
  • Collaborate with software, data, and platform engineering teams to maintain stable and efficient AI deployment across the enterprise.
  • Prepare, maintain, and execute a System Engineering Plan (SEP) for managing all systems architecture and system engineering related aspects of the program.
  • Conduct systems engineering activities required to specify, build, and maintain system engineering designs for the System.
  • Design, prepare, and document systems engineering and cybersecurity artifacts for the System.
  • Establish and maintain an existing System Requirements management environment and associated system requirements management process for the System.
  • Support the Government in recommending and conducting enterprise system architecture activities to fully define and scope the System.
  • Define, document, maintain, and promulgate APIs and technical standards for using and interoperating within and outside the System.
  • Design, engineer, integrate, and continuously improve the underlying infrastructure of the System.
  • Identify, prepare, track, secure, and integrate government, commercial, and open-source tools and services into the System.
  • Design, architect, engineer, and continuously improve the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) components of the Platform.
  • Design, build, and maintain services and products to effectively make production-ready AI/ML models accessible for customer use.
  • Design, architect, engineer, and continuously improve all aspects of cybersecurity elements of the System.
  • Perform site reliability engineering to build and maintain a reliable, scalable, and efficient System.

Requirements

  • Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with SCI eligibility.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, or related technical discipline and 8–12 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree in a related field and 6–10 years of relevant experience.
  • Experience with designing and managing interfaces and APIs for AI models.
  • Proficiency in monitoring data flows, validating system interactions, and resolving integration issues.
  • Experience with cloud environments, network, data storage, logging, and auditing functions.
  • Knowledge of cybersecurity policies and requirements, including NIST security controls and Zero Trust compliance.
  • Experience with DevSecOps/Factory functions and mission spaces.
  • Ability to design and maintain system engineering and cybersecurity artifacts.
  • Experience developing Agentic AI solutions, including autonomous planning–execution–reflection loops, multi-agent collaboration and coordination, and tool usage patterns including API integration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and memory/context management.
  • Solid understanding and hands-on experience with generative AI models including prompt engineering, chain-of-thought reasoning, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks such as entity extraction, summarization, and semantic search.
  • Working knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs) and agent frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, A2A, MCP, or AutoGen.
  • Experience using vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS).
Benefits
  • Health and Wellness programs
  • Income Protection
  • Paid Leave
  • Retirement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AI components implementationAPI design and managementdata flow monitoringsystem interaction validationintegration issue resolutionsystem engineeringcybersecurity artifact documentationDevSecOpsAgentic AI solutions developmentNatural Language Processing
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationorganizational skillsattention to detail
Certifications
Top Secret (TS) clearance with SCI eligibility