Applied AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton2 days ago
Base Salary
$78k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Train, test, deploy, and maintain models that learn from data.
- Define the direction of critical AI solutions by selecting appropriate ML algorithms and technologies.
- Rapidly prototype, develop, 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 user interfaces to demonstrate AI capabilities.
- Translate mission needs and stakeholder requirements into business-facing AI capabilities.
- Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, solutions architects, MLOps engineers, Mission Integration teams, and product stakeholders.
- Adapt AI solutions to diverse operational domains and requirements.
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 conducting comprehensive evaluation and tuning of AI outputs.
- Experience with Python and API frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask, or UI frameworks such as Streamlit or Gradio.
- Ability to work with mission and product stakeholders to refine AI capabilities.
- Ability to pivot between 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 interface safety, and hallucination mitigation.
- Preferred experience with React or TypeScript for end-to-end user-facing product delivery.
- Preferred experience deploying analytical dashboards or tracking user interactions and model performance.
- Preferred experience applying UX practices to conversational AI and generative interfaces.
- A Secret clearance and Security+ certification are preferred.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Regular full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week are eligible for the company's benefit programs, with select offerings for others.
- Onsite work is based primarily at a customer facility in McLean, Virginia, with additional locations in Fort Belvoir and Reston; occasional work at a Booz Allen or customer facility may be required.
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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).