Aslan
AI Engineer
Washington, DC Metro Area · Full-time · Posted Jul 10, 2026
- Experience
- Roughly 5+ years of software/ML engineering experience; senior level of judgment and autonomy. Flexible on senior-vs-staff label.
About the job
Build and deploy autonomous, multi-agent AI systems for national security and law enforcement operations, improving their long-horizon reasoning, reliability, and domain-specific capabilities.
What you'll do
- Design agent cognitive architectures for sustained planning, reasoning, memory, and decision-making; build scalable multi-agent orchestration.
- Improve frontier models through post-training, fine-tuning, and scaffolding; develop evaluation frameworks for reliability and regression detection.
- Turn live operational feedback into training data and benchmarks, and partner with forward-deployed and platform engineers to deploy improvements.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience building agentic AI systems that operate autonomously over extended periods.
- Deep familiarity with frontier models; experience fine-tuning open-weight LLMs, applying post-training or architectural changes, and shipping results.
- Strong software engineering and systems skills, including building reliable, observable, debuggable production systems; Python and PyTorch.
- Data engineering rigor around provenance, labeling, and evaluation, plus working knowledge of quantization, GPU memory management, and inference optimization.
Nice to have
- Experience with agents in adversarial environments, multimodal agentic systems, or air-gapped or classified deployments.
- Active, recent, or eligibility for a U.S. security clearance; TS preferred.
Tools
Python, PyTorch, SFT, preference optimization, LoRA/QLoRA
AI focus
Develop long-horizon autonomous agents and multi-agent systems; adapt frontier models through post-training and domain-specific fine-tuning, and evaluate and improve performance using operational data.
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