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SME AI/ML Engineer

Agile Defense· Data Analytics & AI – AI/ML and NextGen Analytics
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Fort Meade, MD$200k - $215kRegularPosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior AI/ML Engineer responsible for designing and integrating models, agents, and AI workflows on an AI Enterprise platform to move AI solutions from prototype to secure, enterprise-scale services for mission execution.

Responsibilities

  • Provide embedded operations support, capability integration, and rapid prototyping for AI/ML-enabled tools in support of our customer. Design and integrate LLM/agent orchestration workflows using agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, Agno, and the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit.
  • Tune model gateway routing logic to select, evaluate, and optimize across multiple frontier and open-weight models for cost, performance, and mission fit.
  • Develop and integrate RAG pipelines, vector databases, and memory services to give agents access to mission knowledge and context.
  • Implement MCP (Model Context Protocol)-based tool-broker integrations so agents can safely and securely access enterprise tools and data.
  • Evaluate, benchmark, and tune models and agent behaviors; build automated evaluation pipelines to track quality, safety, and performance over time.
  • Partner with data scientists and mission analysts to translate research and prototypes into production-grade AI capabilities for the command.
  • Implement AI governance guardrails — content/safety filters, policy enforcement, and approval gates — for agentic workflows, and document model/agent architectures and evaluation results for reuse.
  • Research and evaluate emerging LLM, agent, and AI tooling to keep the command's AI capability current and adaptable.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related discipline and 10+ years of experience; 4 additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
  • Experience supporting mission environments
  • Experience with frameworks such as LangGraph, Agno, or the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit
  • Experience with model inference/serving platforms (NVIDIA NIM, vLLM, Ollama, LiteLLM)
  • Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar tool-broker/integration standards
  • Experience with AI evaluation frameworks, model benchmarking, and observability (logs/metrics/traces) for AI workloads
  • Active TS/SCI w/ polygraph

Skills

Required:AI/ML engineeringLangGraphAgnoNVIDIA NeMo Agent ToolkitModel inference/serving platformsMCP (Model Context Protocol)AI governanceEvaluation frameworks

Benefits

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Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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