AI ENGINEER
General Dynamics Information Technology2 months ago
Annapolis Junction, MD, USASenior
Base Salary
$166k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop AI-driven solutions from conception through deployment, including coordinated multi-agent workflows.
- Integrate existing foundation models into the RAD architecture through APIs and orchestration frameworks.
- Design, test, and refine prompts and agent instructions to automate manual mission workflows.
- Develop testing, evaluation, and validation strategies for AI-generated outputs and edge cases.
- Collaborate with system engineers, software developers, domain experts, and technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Maintain deployed AI capabilities and identify practical applications for emerging LLM and agentic AI technologies.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree.
- 8+ years of related experience.
- Strong Python development skills and experience writing production-quality, maintainable code.
- Hands-on experience building applications on top of existing LLMs through commercial or self-hosted model APIs.
- Experience designing multi-agent or multi-step AI workflows, including prompt chaining, tool use, and agent orchestration.
- Strong prompt engineering skills and experience evaluating and validating LLM outputs.
- Experience integrating AI capabilities into existing software architectures, RESTful APIs, and microservices.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services.
- Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph and U.S. citizenship.
- Preferred experience with RAG pipelines, vector databases, LLM observability and evaluation tooling, exploratory data analysis, MLOps/LLMOps, and government reporting and dissemination policies.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with up to three days per week of telework in Annapolis Junction, Maryland.
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account options, and a 401(k) plan with company match.
- 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 options.
- Full-flex work weeks where possible, career-development support, internal mobility assistance, and an AI-powered career tool.
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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.