Fulltime || Principal AI Engineer || Arlington, Virginia

Arlington, VA, US • Posted 9 hours ago • Updated 42 minutes ago
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Location: Arlington, VA onsite

Role: Own the reference architecture, design patterns, and engineering standards for how we build and deploy AI agents and ML systems across cloud and secure on-prem environments. Must be deeply hands-on - prototype, build, and harden the most complex and highest-risk components while setting the technical direction the rest of the team executes. Will be required to influence thru technical depth, not org authority.

Required:

  • 10+ years in Software/ Data / ML Engineering with a track record as a senior individual contributor / technical leader
  • 3+ years' experience leading technical teams
  • Hands-on experience designing and deploying production AI/ML systems at scale
  • Advanced experience with large language models. Self-hosting open-weight models, fine-tuning, quantization, and serving/inference optimization
  • Demonstrated experience architecting agentic AI systems and orchestration patterns
  • Expert-level Python and modern AI/ML tooling
  • Strong experience across cloud and on-premises GPU infrastructure
  • Proven ability to set technical direction and influence engineering decisions without direct authority
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers

Desired:

  • Databricks + Kafka experience
  • Experience deploying AI/ML in or near operational technology (OT), industrial, or safety-critical environments
  • Deep familiarity with agent frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, or custom orchestration)
  • Experience building custom ML models (neural networks, smaller models) in addition to LLM systems
  • Ontology / semantic modeling experience

Once again, this is a 100% fully onsite position. Please forward qualified candidate for review and don't hesitate advising if any questions.

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  • Dice Id: 91022079
  • Position Id: 2026-51559
  • Posted 9 hours ago
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