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Intelligent Automation/AI-ML Engineer

Herndon, Virginia, United StatesFull-time2026-10-28 → 2026-11-11
HybridCitizens onlySecurity clearance required

Core

Architect and maintain intelligent automation solutions embedding AI/ML and open-source models to optimize operational efficiency and enable augmented decision-making.

Role type

Senior IC AI/ML Engineer (Intelligent Automation)

Builds

Intelligent automation solutions, bots for document processing and data cleansing, MCP servers/clients, and MLOps pipelines.

Domain

Federal Government / AI & Machine Learning / Intelligent Automation

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, open-source LLMs, Model Context Protocol (MCP), document processing (OCR/NLP), MLOps, token management, RAG architectures, vector databases

Preferred skills

RPA platforms, cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), orchestration tools (Airflow/Prefect), observability tools, responsible AI frameworks

Technologies

PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, LlamaIndex, MLflow, DVC, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana

Responsibilities

Architect and build intelligent automation solutions using open-source models and MCP; Develop MCP servers and clients for secure model integration; Implement MLOps pipelines for versioning, CI/CD, and model retraining; Optimize token usage, prompts, and model performance; Troubleshoot post-implementation issues like model drift and data quality problems; Monitor production solutions and define SLAs/SLOs.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC