Senior Applied AI Engineer

Overview

As a Senior Applied AI Engineer, you will play a critical role in building and deploying dependable AI systems for defense and national security contexts. Collaborating closely with a team of engineers, you will own end-to-end development processes, ensuring your AI solutions meet high standards of reliability and performance in high-stakes environments. This position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology while maintaining a focus on the practical implications of your engineering decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Build multi-agent AI systems from the ground up, ensuring they are robust and reliable.
  • Engineer and write clean, production-grade code, prioritizing systems-level design decisions.
  • Integrate large language and vision-language models into real-world applications.
  • Deploy AI systems in various environments, including cloud and on-premises settings.
  • Manage production pipelines from data ingestion to inference, ensuring end-to-end quality.

Requirements

  • Significant professional software engineering experience, typically 6+ years, with a focus on LLM-based or agentic systems.
  • Strong background in writing clean, tested, and maintainable code within production environments.
  • Commercial experience designing and deploying multi-agent AI systems, with ownership of the delivery process.
  • Proficient in Python and familiar with LLM frameworks such as LangGraph or Haystack.
  • Hands-on experience with large multi-modal datasets and building search and retrieval systems.