Applied AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton6 days ago
McLean, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Train, test, deploy, and maintain models that learn from data.
- Rapidly prototype, develop, and iterate on chat systems, user-facing applications, and domain-specific copilots.
- Evaluate and tune AI outputs by refining prompts, optimizing retrieval logic, and implementing custom heuristics.
- Define the direction of critical AI solutions using best-fit ML algorithms and technologies.
- Translate mission needs into refined, business-facing AI capabilities with mission integration teams and product stakeholders.
- Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, solutions architects, and MLOps engineers on large-scale solutions.
- Adapt AI solutions across different domains, use cases, and operational requirements.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering, applied AI and ML, or full-stack development, including AI integrations.
- Experience rapidly prototyping and iterating on use-case-specific AI solutions.
- Experience evaluating and tuning AI outputs, including prompts, retrieval logic, and custom heuristics.
- Experience with Python and API frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask, or rapid UI frameworks such as Streamlit or Gradio.
- Ability to work with mission integration teams and product stakeholders to translate mission needs into AI capabilities.
- TS/SCI clearance is required.
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Preferred experience includes human-in-the-loop evaluation, AI red teaming, conversational-interface safety, and hallucination mitigation.
- Preferred experience includes React or TypeScript, analytical dashboards, user-interaction and model-performance tracking, and conversational or generative UX.
- Security+ Certification 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.
- Regular full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week are eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs; employees below that threshold receive select offerings.
- Onsite work in McLean, Virginia, or Fort Belvoir, Virginia; the position is not remote and is primarily performed at a customer facility.
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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).