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AI/ML Engineer

Sterling, Virginia, United States💼 Full-time💰 $175,000–$175,000🗓 2026-09-22 → 2026-09-29

Core

Designing and implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into applications, and conducting red teaming for LLM alignment.

Role type

Senior AI/ML Engineer (Generative AI & RAG)

Builds

Self-hosted LLMs, RAG pipelines, and REST API integrations for data retrieval.

Domain

National Security / Defense / Generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, RAG pipelines, LLM integration, REST APIs, Red teaming, Vector databases, Cloud environments (AWS), Docker, Independent technical research

Preferred skills

Deep learning, NLP, Reinforcement learning, Computer vision, Model fine-tuning, AI observability, Open-source contributions

Technologies

Python, LLMs, Vector databases, AWS, Docker

Responsibilities

Implementing and maintaining RAG pipelines (document processing, embedding generation, retrieval configuration, prompt assembly); Integrating LLMs into applications using APIs and frameworks; Developing and maintaining REST API interactions; Deploying and maintaining self-hosted LLMs; Red teaming of LLM alignment.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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