Applied AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton3 days ago
Base Salary
$78k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Train, test, deploy, and maintain models that learn from data.
- Define solution direction and apply best-fit AI and ML algorithms and technologies.
- Rapidly prototype and iterate on chat systems, user-facing applications, and domain-specific copilots.
- Evaluate and tune AI outputs by refining prompts, optimizing retrieval logic, and implementing custom heuristics.
- Build API endpoints and rapid UI demonstrations for AI capabilities.
- Translate mission needs into refined, business-facing AI capabilities.
- Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, solutions architects, MLOps engineers, Mission Integration teams, and product stakeholders.
- Adapt AI solutions across domains and operational use cases.
Requirements
- Experience with software engineering, applied AI and ML, or full-stack development, including AI integrations.
- Experience rapidly prototyping and developing use-case-specific AI solutions.
- Experience evaluating and tuning AI outputs, including prompts, retrieval logic, and custom heuristics.
- Experience with Python and API endpoints such as FastAPI or Flask, or UI frameworks such as Streamlit or Gradio.
- Ability to work with mission and product stakeholders to translate needs into AI capabilities.
- Ability to adapt quickly across domains and use cases.
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Preferred: experience with human-in-the-loop evaluation, AI red teaming, conversational safety, hallucination mitigation, dashboards, model-performance tracking, UX for conversational AI, React, or TypeScript.
- Preferred: Secret clearance and Security+ certification.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards program and other total well-being offerings.
- Benefits eligibility generally applies to full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis.
- Work-model expectations may include remote work with occasional in-person requirements, hybrid facility work, or primarily onsite customer-facility work, depending on the position listing.
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About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).