AI/ML Engineer, Senior
Booz Allen Hamilton1 month ago
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement NLP, LLM-based, deep learning, computer vision, generative AI, and other AI/ML models.
- Build and optimize scalable data pipelines for model training, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
- Develop production-grade APIs, microservices, automation frameworks, distributed systems, and cloud-native or edge-deployed AI services.
- Integrate AI/ML capabilities into operational environments while addressing security, reliability, observability, and performance.
- Optimize, tune, version, and evaluate models, including through A/B testing.
- Use modern software engineering practices and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, mission subject-matter experts, product teams, and customers.
- Prepare technical documentation, participate in design reviews, gather requirements, and define technical approaches.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience developing ML models such as NLP, LLMs, computer vision, deep learning, generative AI, or reinforcement learning.
- Experience developing AI/ML capabilities in a microservice stack and maintaining production-grade APIs, microservices, or distributed systems.
- Experience with data processing frameworks and scientific computing libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, PyTorch, TensorFlow, or scikit-learn.
- Experience designing, configuring, or deploying software systems in operational environments.
- Experience with source control such as GitLab, containerization technologies such as Docker, Podman, or Kubernetes, and CI/CD tooling.
- Active TS/SCI clearance and willingness to take a polygraph examination.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Preferred experience includes GPU programming with CUDA or RAPIDS, AWS, classified-environment model containerization, LLM orchestration, RAG, grounding, hallucination mitigation, MLOps, distributed training, hybrid cloud environments, automated testing tools, and model evaluation frameworks.
- Preferred qualifications include a master's degree in computer science, AI Engineering, ML Engineering, Data Science, or a STEM field, plus AI/ML, Cloud, or Solution Architecture certifications.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are available.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, dependent care, and recognition awards are offered.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible for the applicable benefit programs; employees below that threshold receive select offerings.
- The position is onsite in Dayton, Ohio, and is not remote; onsite work is primarily performed full-time at a customer facility.
- Applicants must undergo a security investigation and meet requirements for access to classified information.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesNumPyPandasPythonPyTorchRustScalascikit-learnTensorFlow
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About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).