3 months ago
Chantilly, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$153k - $191k/yr
Responsibilities
- Shape and define the government customer’s AI/ML roadmap and advise on securely building, adopting, governing, and maintaining foundation models and custom LLMs.
- Design, train, fine-tune, and prototype LLM and predictive analytics solutions for search, summarization, business intelligence, financial analysis, budgeting, and scheduling.
- Clean, curate, and pipeline structured and unstructured enterprise data into training corpora, instruction-tuning datasets, and RAG knowledge bases.
- Scout and evaluate commercial, academic, and open-source AI technologies and recommend options for government adoption.
- Develop technical recommendations, statements of work, and system integration requirements for contractors and vendors.
- Evaluate contractor proposals, designs, and deliverables against government AI safety, security, and performance standards.
- Oversee LLM red-teaming, bias testing, hallucination mitigation, and ongoing model alignment evaluations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, master’s degree with 3+ years, or PhD with 0+ years of relevant experience.
- Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
- Strong foundations in AI/ML, natural language processing, and statistical modeling.
- Prototype development experience using Python, R, or similar tools and LLM frameworks such as llama.cpp, LangChain, or Hugging Face.
- Experience working with complex enterprise datasets, including financial, resource planning, scheduling, or programmatic data.
- Ability to translate LLM training, RAG architecture, model alignment, and data-corpus concepts into actionable recommendations for executives and government leaders.
- Experience with financial or schedule modeling, predictive analysis, risk modeling, or project scheduling is preferred.
- Understanding of AI/ML deployment in high-security, air-gapped government cloud environments such as AWS C2S is preferred.
- Technology scouting, technical vetting, acquisition support, DoD/IC acquisition lifecycle, systems engineering, or SETA advisory experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Benefits may include a 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability coverage, paid time off, and a flexible work schedule.
- Professional training and development opportunities support career advancement.
- The role is on-site in the Chantilly, Virginia area with minimal travel of 0–20%.
- KBR is an equal opportunity employer.
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About KBR, Inc.
KBR, Inc. delivers engineering, technology, and professional services to government and industrial customers, spanning defense, space, sustainability, and energy. Its businesses include long-term government mission support and program management, and Sustainable Technology Solutions that license process technologies and provide consulting and operations support across asset lifecycles. Headquartered in Houston and listed on the NYSE, KBR became an independent public company in 2006 after its separation from Halliburton.