# Senior AI Engineer

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Chantilly, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $164,382 - $218,500
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a senior AI Engineer to lead the design, development, and secure integration of AI and machine learning capabilities into mission systems operating on classified networks.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will establish the architectural patterns, governance alignment, and engineering standards for AI-enabled features across the program, and grow a small team over time.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Architect, build, and maintain AI-enabled applications and services within air-gapped and government cloud environments

- Deploy, serve, and tune large language models and ML models on-premises or in accredited cloud enclaves

- Design retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and embedding workflows over controlled data sets

- Operationalize the program's AI governance framework

- Support security accreditation activities

- Build and optimize data pipelines feeding AI-driven features

- Establish code quality, testing, and documentation standards for the AI engineering function

- Brief technical approach and results to program leadership and government customers

**Required Qualifications**

- Active TS/SCI with polygraph to start

- Security+CE or other IAT Level II or higher certification required to start

- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience

- 8+ years of professional software development experience, including 3+ years building or integrating ML/AI capabilities

- Expert-level Python; working proficiency in at least one additional language

- Demonstrated experience deploying or serving LLMs or ML models in disconnected, on-premises, or government cloud environments

- Practical experience with model inference, embeddings, vector search, and prompt engineering in production systems

- Experience with containerization and CI/CD in restricted environments

- Strong understanding of data security, classification handling, and responsible AI practices

- Proven ability to work directly with government customers and translate mission requirements into technical solutions

**Benefits**

- Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities

- Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals

- Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off

- Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

## Skills

### Required
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Python Automation
- Python
- JavaScript
- Java
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD

### Nice to have
- Experience supporting RMF accreditation or AO engagement for AI/ML systems
- Familiarity with open-weight model deployment
- Experience with ML frameworks (PyTorch preferred)
- Prior work on IC or DoD programs

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