SME AI/ML Engineer
Agile Defense1 month ago
Fort Meade, MD, USASenior
Base Salary
$200k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide embedded operations support, capability integration, and rapid prototyping for AI/ML-enabled tools supporting the customer.
- Design and integrate LLM and agent orchestration workflows using LangGraph, Agno, and NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit.
- Tune model gateway routing to select, evaluate, and optimize frontier and open-weight models for cost, performance, and mission fit.
- Develop and integrate RAG pipelines, vector databases, and memory services for agent access to mission knowledge and context.
- Implement MCP-based tool-broker integrations for secure access to enterprise tools and data.
- Evaluate, benchmark, and tune models and agent behaviors, including automated evaluation pipelines for quality, safety, and performance.
- Partner with data scientists and mission analysts to productionize research and prototypes.
- Implement AI governance guardrails, content and safety filters, policy enforcement, and approval gates.
- Document model and agent architectures and evaluation results and research emerging LLM, agent, and AI tooling.
Requirements
- Master’s degree and 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience supporting mission environments.
- Experience with LangGraph, Agno, or NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit.
- Experience with NVIDIA NIM, vLLM, Ollama, or LiteLLM model inference and serving platforms.
- Experience with MCP or similar tool-broker and integration standards.
- Experience with AI evaluation frameworks, model benchmarking, and observability using logs, metrics, and traces for AI workloads.
- Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
Benefits
- The company emphasizes a supportive, collaborative culture centered on its six core values.
- The position supports national security and critical civilian missions.
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About Agile Defense
Agile Defense provides IT services and cybersecurity solutions for U.S. defense and federal civilian agencies, including digital transformation, systems integration, C4ISR support, data analytics, and cloud. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, the privately held company is owned by Enlightenment Capital and operates across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Its work centers on securing sensitive missions and modernizing government technology environments through managed services and mission-focused engineering.