AI Engineer SME

Chantilly, VAfull timeOn Site$95k–$213kH1B: no

Anavationllc AI Engineer SME to lead research, design, development, and execution of AI/ML capabilities supporting real-world missions. Responsible for building scalable AI models and pipelines with a focus on operational and analytic cyber capabilities.

Responsibilities

Build scalable, production-ready AI/ML/GenAI models, pipelines, and microservices.
Develop training, evaluation, and inference pipelines in Python using PyTorch, TensorFlow, or scikit learn.
Deploy and manage models with MLOps, CI/CD, containerization, and monitoring frameworks.
Implement vector databases, embeddings, LLM applications, agentic AI, and tool calling workflows.
Optimize models for accuracy, latency, cost, and scalability across distributed environments.
Ensure AI governance, documentation, ethical compliance, and secure posture alignment.
Provide technical mentorship and drive cross-team engineering standardization.
This position requires an active Top Secret (TS) clearance and the ability to obtain SCI access with a CI polygraph. This position is on-site in Chantilly, VA.