Senior AI Engineer/Software Developer - TS/SCI with Polygraph
General Dynamics Information Technology3 months ago
Chantilly, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$164k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and maintain AI-enabled applications and services in air-gapped and government cloud environments.
- Deploy, serve, tune, and optimize LLMs and ML models on premises or in accredited cloud enclaves.
- Design RAG pipelines, embedding workflows, vector-search systems, and production model-inference capabilities over controlled data.
- Operationalize AI governance, including model capability tiering, use-case approvals, rules of engagement, audit, and logging.
- Support security accreditation, RMF documentation, Authorizing Official engagement, and responsible-AI evidence development.
- Build and optimize data pipelines and integrate AI capabilities with existing program systems and workflows.
- Establish coding, testing, and documentation standards; mentor developers and grow a small engineering team.
- Brief technical approaches and results to program leadership and government customers.
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph and U.S. citizenship.
- At least 8 years of professional software development experience, or 6 years with a relevant advanced degree, including at least 3 years building or integrating ML/AI capabilities.
- Expert-level Python and working proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or a similar additional language.
- Experience deploying or serving LLMs or ML models in disconnected, on-premises, or government cloud environments such as Azure Government or AWS GovCloud.
- Production experience with model inference, embeddings, vector search, and prompt engineering.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or equivalent containerization technologies and CI/CD in restricted environments.
- Strong understanding of data security, classification handling, and responsible-AI practices.
- Ability to work directly with government customers and translate mission requirements into technical solutions.
- Preferred: RMF accreditation or Authorizing Official engagement experience; open-weight model deployment with Llama or Mistral; model quantization or optimization; PyTorch; IC, DoD, or NRO program experience; and experience leading a small engineering team.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and health savings account plan options.
- 401(k) with company match and pre-tax and post-tax contribution options.
- Paid vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury-duty leave.
- Short- and long-term disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel insurance offerings.
- Competitive pay, wellness programs, career-development support, and internal mobility assistance.
- Full flex work weeks where possible; this position is onsite in Chantilly, Virginia, with a 40-hour scheduled workweek and no travel required.
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About General Dynamics Information Technology
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) delivers enterprise IT, systems integration, cybersecurity, cloud, and software engineering services to U.S. federal agencies, including defense and intelligence organizations. It provides contract-based professional and managed services ranging from network operations and unified communications to training and simulation. GDIT is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia.