2 months ago
Annapolis Junction, MD, USASenior
Base Salary
$200k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop full-stack applications, services, and tools incorporating LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, and other AI/ML capabilities.
- Develop and deploy AI/ML models and solutions for data mining, predictive modeling, knowledge discovery, and cyber data analysis.
- Integrate AI/ML capabilities into secure cloud-based architectures using APIs and existing system components.
- Evaluate and monitor model performance, data drift, and concept drift, and support model retraining and fine-tuning.
- Work with Cyber Analysts to respond to vulnerability-related requests and improve LLM-enabled capabilities.
- Analyze data patterns related to system and network misconfigurations.
- Collaborate with data engineers, software developers, and stakeholders to define requirements, validate results, and deliver mission capabilities.
- Evaluate internally developed solutions against commercial, open-source, and industry-standard approaches through analyses of alternatives.
- Ensure AI/ML workflows meet cybersecurity, data privacy, and access-control requirements in secure and isolated cloud environments.
- Develop tutorials, best practices, and guidance to support knowledge sharing and training on AI/ML platforms and implementation approaches.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 10+ years of relevant software engineering and/or AI/ML experience.
- Strong Python development skills, including experience with APIs and backend services.
- Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, model evaluation, and modern AI/ML technologies.
- Experience with AWS and/or Microsoft ecosystems, containers, data services, and secure system integration.
- Familiarity with databases, SQL, configuration management, and infrastructure automation.
- Experience supporting AI/ML, data, cloud, or platform engineering in government, defense, or enterprise environments.
- Ability to rapidly prototype solutions, solve complex technical problems, and adapt to user feedback.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and bonus programs.
- Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, including 100% employee premium coverage for comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance and majority coverage for family premiums.
- Up to 10% immediately vested 401(k) contributions.
- Up to 25 days of personal time off and 11 paid floating holidays.
- Up to $5,250 annually for education, training, certifications, and professional memberships.
- Free access to a fully equipped gym.
- Up to $300 annually for company-branded merchandise.
- Company and team events throughout the year.
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About Red Alpha
Red Alpha is a privately held software engineering firm that builds custom data, cloud, and analytics solutions for U.S. national security and cybersecurity customers. It delivers enterprise software development, UI/UX, and technical advisory services under government and commercial contracts; founded in 2011 and headquartered in Columbia, Maryland.