Dark Wolf Solutions
AI Software Engineer
$120K–$160K
Chantilly/Herndon, VA +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Location
- Chantilly/Herndon, VA
Chantilly, Virginia, United States - Experience
- 5+ years engineering production-grade AI/ML systems, or 3+ years with a Master's/Ph.D.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
About the job
Architects and deploys secure AI solutions, data pipelines, and analytics tools for federal and defense enterprise use cases.
What you'll do
- Build RAG systems, LLM agents, semantic search, and NLP tools to query, summarize, and classify enterprise and scientific information.
- Develop predictive analytics, workforce and workflow tools, and dashboards for operational and leadership decisions.
- Create data ingestion pipelines and ensure AI systems comply with DoD security regulations across classification levels.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience fine-tuning, evaluating, and deploying LLMs, embedding models, and vector databases.
- Proficiency in Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, LlamaIndex, FastAPI, and RESTful APIs.
- Experience with complex structured and unstructured data, SQL, NoSQL, graph databases, and data lakes.
- Active U.S. Government Secret clearance or higher; eligible to obtain TS/SCI access; U.S. citizenship.
Nice to have
- Experience deploying AI in DoD, Air Force, or federal environments, including CAC/PKI or IL4/IL5/IL6 cloud environments.
- Experience with XAI, HR or workflow systems, scientific literature indexing, AWS GovCloud or Azure Government, Docker, or Kubernetes.
Pay
$120,000.00 – $160,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, LlamaIndex, FastAPI, Pinecone, Milvus
AI focus
Develops and deploys LLM, RAG, NLP, predictive analytics, and Explainable AI solutions for defense and federal enterprise applications.
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