AI Engineer

Overview

Remote
Depends on Experience
Full Time
10% Travel

Skills

data science

Job Details

NewGen is seeking an AI Engineer to guide a group of cross-functional teams as they move their use cases from idea to shaping a use case to a Product.

Duties:

  • Deliver knowledge sessions to teams to familiarize and give working knowledge to teams
  • Assist in data engineering and preparation tasks to enable teams who may not have engineering resources to utilize their data or new data sources
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams across federal agencies and supporting partners
  • Designing solutions with defined requirements
  • Innovating outside the box while accounting for risk
  • Articulate the art of the impossible and lead to the edge of the frontier of innovation

Skills/background:

  • 7+ years professional experience with Data Science, Deep Learning and/or Engineering
  • Experience with Generative AI (e.g. Large Language Models)
  • Background, education, or experience working in life sciences, preferably the biomedical or bioinformatics space
  • Previous experience moving ideas through an innovation pipeline from proof of concept to MVP to full scale deployment
  • Proficiency in Python and machine learning frameworks like SKLearn, and PyTorch
  • Proficiency with relational database systems (SQL) and object-based data stores
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
  • Proficient in Git and version control
  • Competent in maintaining and optimizing infrastructure for data collection, management, and transformation
  • Experience building models and architecture to support natural language processing and/or automation tasks
  • Experience with optimizing and tuning models for efficient execution
  • Ability to evaluate models in terms of efficacy while being mindful of best practices with responsible AI
  • Demonstrated experience building ML solutions from technical design to operational deployment
  • Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, or integrating agentic AI workflows (e.g., multi-step reasoning, tool-calling, or task orchestration across systems) to automate complex business or research processes.
  • Ability to support end users with code reviews, debugging, and troubleshooting issues
  • Ability to apply emergent DS/ML techniques (like RAG, and prompt engineering) to solve business/operational problems
  • Understanding of a Software Development Lifecycle, including agile/SCRUM methodology

About Us
For more than 20 years, NewGen Technologies has solved our clients toughest IT challenges with integrity, security, and outstanding service by delivering both technology and talent. We have helped secure borders, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to fight terror, aided the identification of criminals, and have helped to prevent crime through the introduction of biometrics. Our team of Highly Cleared Specialists have hard-to-find skills and expertise in a wide spectrum of technologies to provide solutions that transform business processes and solve problems of national significance

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