Innovative Defense Technologies
AI Implementation Engineer - JobID-0245
$114K–$231K
Arlington, Virginia · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 5-10+ years; the posting also accepts equivalent full-time professional experience in place of the listed degree.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics, or Math, or equivalent full-time professional experience. Master’s degree in Engineering or another technical field highly desired.
About the job
Designs and delivers production-ready AI systems for on-premises, air-gapped environments, including agentic workflows, model integrations, and retrieval pipelines.
What you'll do
- Build and evaluate agentic AI systems, conversational interfaces, and RAG pipelines for operational use.
- Integrate LLMs, tools, APIs, data sources, and MCP interfaces; optimize local CPU/GPU infrastructure and offline update processes.
- Gather requirements, collaborate with engineering and mission teams, and document, test, and improve AI solutions.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in a listed technical field or equivalent full-time professional experience.
- 5-10+ years of professional experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, AI engineering, or related technical roles.
- Proficiency in Python, including NumPy and Pandas; hands-on experience with production local inference engines such as vLLM, SGLang, Triton Inference Server, or TensorRT-LLM.
- Experience with a modern AI/ML framework, Linux and hardening, commercially available AI tooling, hosting LLM servers and models, distributed networking, and containerization.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Engineering or another technical field.
- Experience with local GPU hosting, AI gateways, model optimization, tool calling, RAG, vector stores, MCP, or container orchestration.
Pay
$114,000 - $184,000 USD base salary; $135,000 - $231,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, NumPy, Pandas, vLLM, SGLang, Triton Inference Server, TensorRT-LLM, PyTorch
AI focus
Builds agentic AI, LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, and production AI workflows for on-premises, air-gapped environments; includes local inference and model optimization.
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