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Base Salary
$108k - $195k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with mission stakeholders, analysts, data scientists, and engineers to translate operational needs into AI/ML solutions.
- Design and develop AI capabilities for knowledge extraction, information discovery, summarization, decision support, workflow automation, and structured or unstructured data analysis.
- Develop and optimize AI/ML applications in Python using supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised, and deep-learning techniques.
- Build LLM applications, RAG architectures, vector-search and knowledge-retrieval systems, and agentic AI workflows.
- Create data pipelines for preprocessing, feature extraction, validation, deduplication, labeling, and augmentation.
- Optimize and evaluate models through selection, fine-tuning, hyperparameter tuning, benchmarking, and latency-versus-accuracy analysis.
- Support AI capabilities through deployment, monitoring, security, evaluation, and sustainment across their lifecycle.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science plus 8 years of relevant experience or equivalent.
- Strong proficiency with Python and demonstrated experience designing or developing AI/ML solutions.
- Understanding of the complete AI lifecycle from data ingestion and model development through deployment, monitoring, and sustainment.
- Active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph required.
- Knowledge of Large Language Models, Generative AI, tokenization, embeddings, attention concepts, prompt engineering, context management, and LLM interfaces is desirable.
- Experience with RAG, vector search, knowledge retrieval systems, machine-learning fundamentals, model training and validation, performance metrics, experimentation, and AI-system evaluation is desirable.
- Knowledge of customer corporate tools, data repositories, and secure mission-computing environments is desirable.
Benefits
- Paid time off and 11 paid holidays.
- 401(k) with a 6% company match and immediate vesting.
- Flexible schedules, discounted stock purchase plans, technical upskilling, education and training support, and paid parental leave.
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About Leidos
Leidos builds and operates technology and engineering solutions for defense, intelligence, civil, and health agencies, including systems integration, cyber, enterprise IT, sensors, and healthcare IT. It primarily sells through government contracts and long-term programs, plus managed services and mission software. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos is a Fortune 500 public company on the NYSE; customers include U.S. defense and intelligence agencies and civil bodies such as the FAA.