Job Description
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Company Overview
A leading aerospace and technology organization is developing advanced technologies designed to expand humanity’s capabilities in space exploration. Its mission focuses on advancing innovative engineering and technology solutions with the long-term goal of enabling human life beyond Earth.
The organization is seeking an AI Engineer, Special Programs – Top Secret Clearance to work directly with end customers and lead the strategy, execution, and deployment of mission-critical AI solutions for U.S. federal agencies. The role involves close collaboration with product, research, infrastructure, and legal and governance teams to deliver high-stakes AI projects while supporting safety, transparency, and ethical standards.
AI engineers in this role will help make current and future AI models more effective for mission-critical applications. The position requires strong engineering capabilities, adaptability, and the ability to develop secure, scalable solutions in environments with stringent operational and compliance requirements.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize integrations between frontier AI models and government systems, platforms, and data environments.
- Identify customer pain points, define product specifications, and design AI-powered software for government and enterprise use cases.
- Benchmark AI models and develop evaluation frameworks to measure performance and identify weaknesses.
- Enhance model performance through system prompt tuning and fine-tuning while maintaining secure and scalable deployment practices.
- Analyze request logs, prompt data, and system outputs to support reliability, monitoring, and auditability.
- Build internal tools that streamline workflows and automate repetitive tasks within secure environments.
- Partner with agency stakeholders to understand requirements, prototype solutions, and rapidly iterate based on real-world feedback.
- Develop and deliver production-grade code and features with an emphasis on speed, simplicity, reliability, and measurable impact.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, computer engineering, physics, data science, or a related field.
- At least 1 year of hands-on software engineering experience building scalable systems, APIs, or AI/ML applications.
- Active Top Secret or Top Secret/SCI security clearance.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Demonstrated experience working with government agencies, the Department of War, or federal contractors on AI, software, or data projects.
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in environments requiring high reliability or strong security controls.
- Expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining robust, scalable, and secure AI-driven solutions that meet stringent compliance and operational requirements.
- Experience implementing AI or machine learning products involving APIs, backend systems, and frontend interfaces.
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
- Strong understanding of HTTP protocols and secure API design.
- Strong engineering background in areas such as computer science, mathematics, software engineering, physics, or data science.
- Experience developing evaluation frameworks for AI systems and assessing capabilities in regulated or high-stakes environments.
- Deep understanding of machine learning fundamentals, including model evaluation, training, and fine-tuning, with an emphasis on production-ready deployments.
- Experience deploying machine learning models to production, preferably within secure or cloud-based government environments.
- Experience writing developer documentation or maintaining SDKs for technical audiences, including government developers.
- Ability to work with massive datasets, optimize system performance, and scale solutions for high-throughput, mission-critical workloads.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Pulumi or Terraform, particularly for secure or government-aligned deployments.
- Ability to adapt to shifting priorities and requirements in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, including the ability to document technical solutions for diverse stakeholders.
- Active Top Secret or Top Secret/SCI clearance with a full-scope polygraph.
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