1 month ago
Base Salary
$146k - $234k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design integration architectures for third-party agentic AI tools deployed in vendor-isolated DISM enclaves within the FPS ATO boundary.
- Define common data package specifications covering schemas, sampling, PHI/PII handling, refresh cadence, and packaging.
- Create per-vendor patterns for data access, identity federation, audit-log routing, and tenant isolation.
- Provide hands-on LLM and agentic-AI expertise covering RAG, fine-tuning, tool use, multi-agent orchestration, and LLMOps.
- Embed security, quality, PHI/PII, and governance controls into architectural designs.
- Present architectures and technical recommendations to CMS technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- 8 years of experience with a BS/BA, 6 years with an MS/MA, or 3 years with a PhD.
- Deep hands-on expertise with LLM architectures and agentic AI systems, including LoRA/PEFT fine-tuning, RAG, prompt engineering, tool-use/MCP, and multi-agent orchestration.
- Experience designing integration architectures for third-party AI tools in secure customer enclaves, including tenant isolation, identity federation, and audit routing.
- Working experience with Snowflake or Databricks and strong SQL and Python skills.
- Experience deploying AI/ML workloads on AWS, including VPC, IAM, KMS, S3, ECS/EKS, RDS, and Bedrock or equivalent.
- Experience with LLMOps/MLOps practices such as versioning, evaluation harnesses, deployment automation, monitoring, and governance.
- Familiarity with PHI/PII handling and access-controlled data storage.
- US citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
- Preferred experience with Databricks E2, Unity Catalog, Feature Store, MLflow registry, REST API integration, Strands Agents, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, CMS or federal health environments, Medicare/Medicaid claims, Terraform/IaC, Argo CD, Helm, vector databases, hybrid or graph retrieval, long-context optimization, Confluence, JIRA, and SAFe Agile.
Benefits
- Eligible employees may receive medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short- and long-term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off, and company-paid holidays.
- The stated base salary range is $146,000-$234,000; employees may also be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus.
- The application period is estimated at 30 days from the posting date but may change based on business needs and candidate availability.
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About Peraton
Peraton builds and integrates mission systems, cyber, space, and intelligence solutions for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil agencies. It delivers enterprise IT, satellite and terrestrial communications, and spectrum management under government contracts. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Reston, Virginia and is privately held by Veritas Capital.