
Senior AI Integration Engineer
Leidos
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Alexandria • Maryland • Virginia • United States
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Salary
💰 $107,900 - $195,050 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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