Req ID: 41225
SummaryAI EngineerRedstone Arsenal, ALAre you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employers core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level!
Venturi, LLC A Chenega Company has a challenging career opportunity for an
AI Engineer who will provide technical support for the design, evaluation, and advancement of AI-enabled applications, tools, and workflows. This role is intended for a hands-on technical professional who understands how modern AI systems are built and can help develop practical solutions using large language models, agentic workflows, orchestration frameworks, and supporting software infrastructure. The right candidate is a builder at heartsomeone who explores new frameworks, prototypes ideas, and continuously teaches themselves emerging techniques. Curiosity and passion matter in this role. We want someone who follows the fast-moving AI ecosystem, because they genuinely enjoy it, not just because the job requires it. This Principal Engineer will participate on the TEAMS Next Missile Defense Systems Engineering contract to advance Missile Defense Agency missions that protect national security and keep US and allied military personnel safe.
Responsibilities - Provide SETA support to government teams developing or assessing AI-enabled applications and tools.
- Advise on technical approaches for AI application design, prototyping, integration, and evaluation.
- Assess solutions involving LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, agentic workflows, orchestration layers, prompt pipelines, and evaluation harnesses.
- Support the review of architectures, development approaches, model usage patterns, and technical risk areas.
- Advise on AI engineering considerations such as latency, reliability, observability, testability, guardrails, data flow, and system integration.
- Evaluate and compare modern AI frameworks, agentic libraries, and experimentation harnesses for suitability in mission use cases.
- Assist with the development of technical guidance, prototypes, engineering recommendations, and briefings for government stakeholders.
- Support test and evaluation activities for AI tools, including performance assessment, qualitative review, and workflow validation.
- Collaborate with platform engineers, product leads, mission users, and government leadership to ensure AI efforts remain technically grounded and operationally relevant.
- Stay current on rapid changes in the AI ecosystem and provide informed recommendations on emerging tools and practices.
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications - Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or related field and 12+ years of relevant experience
- Experience designing, building, integrating, or evaluating AI/ML-enabled applications or software tools.
- Active Secret clearance required.
Preferred Qualifications: - Experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages commonly used in AI application development.
- Experience supporting defense, cyber, intelligence, or mission application development.
- Working knowledge of one or more agentic or orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI, Haystack, LlamaIndex, or similar ecosystems.
- Successfully pass background and drug screening
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: - Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, model APIs, evaluation frameworks, and agent testing harnesses.
- Exposure to model hosting, inference pipelines, or cloud-based AI development environments.
- Understanding of secure AI development practices, data protection, and operational constraints in government settings.
- Ability to obtain a TS SCI clearance required
- Familiarity with modern AI application patterns, including LLM-based applications, RAG, prompt engineering, agentic systems, and AI-assisted workflows.
- Experience with software development fundamentals, APIs, data handling, and system integration.
- Familiarity with human-in-the-loop workflows, AI assurance, and evaluation methodologies.
- Ability to assess technical tradeoffs and communicate them clearly to both engineers and government stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
How youll growAt Chenega MIOS, our professional development plan focuses on helping our team members at every level of their careers to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe theres always room to learn.
We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their careers.
BenefitsAt Chenega MIOS, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our team members and offer them a broad range of benefits.
Learn more about what working at Chenega MIOS can mean for you.
Chenega MIOSs cultureOur positive and supportive culture encourages our team members to do their best work every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer well-being programs and continuously look for new ways to maintain a culture where we excel and lead healthy, happy lives.
Corporate citizenshipChenega MIOS is led by a purpose to make an impact that matters. This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our team members, and our communities. We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform. We focus on education, giving, skill-based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities.
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