Senior AI/ML Engineer
Agile Defense1 month ago
Fort Meade, MD, USASenior
Base Salary
$155k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide embedded operations support, capability integration, and rapid prototyping for AI/ML-enabled customer tools.
- Design and integrate LLM and agent orchestration workflows using LangGraph, Agno, and the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit.
- Tune model gateway routing across frontier and open-weight models for cost, performance, and mission fit.
- Develop RAG pipelines, vector databases, and memory services for agent knowledge and context access.
- Implement MCP-based tool-broker integrations for secure access to enterprise tools and data.
- Evaluate, benchmark, and tune models and agent behaviors while building automated quality, safety, and performance evaluation pipelines.
- Translate research and prototypes into production-grade AI capabilities with data scientists and mission analysts.
- Implement AI governance guardrails, including content filters, policy enforcement, and approval gates.
- Document model and agent architectures and evaluate emerging LLM, agent, and AI tooling.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related discipline.
- 8+ years of professional experience.
- Advanced proficiency in Python for AI/ML application development.
- Demonstrated experience building or integrating production LLM- and agent-based systems.
- Experience with RAG, vector databases, and prompt/context engineering.
- Ability to manage competing priorities in fast-paced mission environments and identify or escalate operational risks early.
- Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
- Preferred: experience supporting mission environments.
- Preferred: experience with LangGraph, Agno, or the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit.
- Preferred: experience with NVIDIA NIM, vLLM, Ollama, or LiteLLM.
- Preferred: experience with MCP or similar tool-broker and integration standards.
- Preferred: experience with AI evaluation frameworks, model benchmarking, and observability using logs, metrics, and traces.
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About Agile Defense
Agile Defense provides IT services and cybersecurity solutions for U.S. defense and federal civilian agencies, including digital transformation, systems integration, C4ISR support, data analytics, and cloud. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, the privately held company is owned by Enlightenment Capital and operates across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Its work centers on securing sensitive missions and modernizing government technology environments through managed services and mission-focused engineering.