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AI Lead Software Architect

Chantilly, VA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-27 → 2026-07-31

Core

Architect and build enterprise-grade Agentic AI applications combining LLMs, retrieval, structured data access, search, orchestration, and workflow automation for defense and intelligence communities.

Role type

Senior IC AI Lead Software Architect

Builds

Scalable, secure, high-performance platforms supporting advanced analytics and AI workloads

Domain

Defense & Intelligence / Enterprise Cloud AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Joint Architecture Design, Agentic AI solution design, LLM integration, retrieval systems, structured data access, search optimization, workflow automation, Python, Spark, OpenSearch, Iceberg, ETL frameworks

Preferred skills

Cloud platform expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP), large-scale data ML/AI solution architecture, hands-on implementation leadership, prototype development, distributed computing system design, containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes/Docker), DevOps practices

Technologies

OpenSearch, Iceberg, Lakekeeper, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-Learn, AKS, GKE, OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Design and architect scalable AI platforms leveraging ML and Deep Learning techniques, collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements for AI use cases, optimize AI search experiences using vector databases, host and deliver customer-driven capability demonstrations

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic oversight

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