AI Engineer
SilverEdge Government Solutions
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Columbia • Maryland • United States
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Tech Stack
About the role
- 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 involving LLMs, 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s 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, including LLM-based applications, RAG, prompt engineering, agentic systems, and AI-assisted workflows.
- Working knowledge of one or more agentic or orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, 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.
- Active TS with poly required.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Professional development opportunities
- Bonuses
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI application designprototypingintegrationevaluationLLMsretrieval-augmented generationprompt engineeringagentic systemsorchestration frameworkssoftware development fundamentals
Soft Skills
technical tradeoff assessmentcommunicationcollaborationwritten communicationverbal communication
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreeActive TS with poly