AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton1 month ago
Fort Meade, MD, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop, train, validate, deploy, optimize, and operationalize AI and ML models.
- Design and implement model deployment pipelines and MLOps workflows across cloud, edge, and hybrid environments.
- Integrate models with enterprise and mission systems and select appropriate model architectures.
- Implement monitoring frameworks to detect model drift, performance degradation, and operational issues.
- Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, cloud and network architects, and ISSE partners.
- Guide feature engineering, fine-tuning, retraining, and model lifecycle strategy.
- Evaluate emerging AI and ML frameworks and model architectures.
- Advise mission partners on AI and ML technologies and model readiness.
Requirements
- Experience with programming languages such as Python or Rust.
- Experience developing, training, validating, deploying, and optimizing AI and ML models.
- Knowledge of computing, storage, and networking requirements for model training, tuning, and inference.
- Knowledge of model evaluation techniques.
- Ability to design model deployment pipelines and implement MLOps workflows.
- Ability to implement monitoring for model drift, performance degradation, and operational issues.
- TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph is required.
- High school diploma or GED with 6+ years of data science or AI and ML engineering experience, or a bachelor’s degree with 4+ years of that experience.
- Preferred qualifications include distributed compute framework experience, mission-focused or national security experience, AI architecture evaluation experience, and knowledge of secure AI engineering practices such as adversarial robustness, model governance, or NIST AI RMF.
- A bachelor’s degree is preferred.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis may participate in Booz Allen benefit programs.
- This is an onsite position in Fort Meade, Maryland, primarily performed at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
- The position is full-time or part-time eligible under the stated benefits threshold.
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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).