AI/ML Engineer, Senior
Booz Allen Hamilton1 day ago
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, optimize, and deploy AI/ML models including NLP, LLM, generative AI, computer vision, deep learning, and reinforcement learning systems.
- Build 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 with attention to security, reliability, observability, and performance.
- Perform model tuning, versioning, A/B testing, and evaluation to improve mission impact.
- Collaborate with engineering, mission subject-matter experts, and product teams to gather requirements and define technical approaches.
- Prepare technical documentation, contribute to design reviews, and support customer-driven requirements.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience developing ML models such as NLP, LLM, computer vision, deep learning, generative AI, or reinforcement learning models.
- 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 CI/CD tooling, GitLab or similar source control, and containerization technologies such as Docker, Podman, or Kubernetes.
- Active TS/SCI clearance and willingness to take a polygraph exam.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 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, automated testing, and model evaluation frameworks.
- A master’s degree in computer science, AI engineering, ML engineering, data science, or a STEM field and AI/ML, cloud, or solution architecture certifications are preferred.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are available, subject to eligibility.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, dependent care, and recognition awards are offered.
- Regular full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week are eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs, while employees below that threshold receive select offerings.
- The role supports classified operational environments and may require work at a Booz Allen or customer facility depending on the position’s remote, hybrid, or onsite designation.
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).