Senior AI Engineer

Are you ready to thrive? Through training, teamwork, and exposure to challenging technical work, let Leidos show how to accelerate your career path.

Join Leidos’ all-star team supporting the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Enterprise Digital Modernization Accelerator initiative. This program is at the forefront of deploying enterprise-scale AI, data, and mission platform capabilities across cloud, edge, and classified environments. We are looking for creative, driven, and mission-focused professionals ready to take their career to the next level.

As a Senior AI Engineer, you will:

• Support the development and operationalization of AI and agentic AI systems in production mission environments.

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of analysts, engineers, and developers to solve complex challenges and deliver innovative, production-ready algorithms and platforms.

• Apply cutting-edge techniques in statistical analysis, predictive analytics, entity resolution, graph analytics, explainable AI, and operational analytics.

• Contribute to the integration of AI, DevSecOps, data engineering, platform engineering, cybersecurity, and observability in a fast-paced, engineering-centric environment.

• Enjoy flexible work arrangements, including remote and on-site work in the National Capital Region (Rockville, MD and/or Alexandria, VA).

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or equivalent graduate degree in a quantitative or analytical field (Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, Computational Social Science, etc.). Additional/Relevant experience may be substituted for a degree.

• 12+ years of experience in data science, analytics, or quantitative intelligence analysis, developing analytics and AI/ML solutions (4+ years with a Master’s).

• Active Top Secret clearance and eligibility for TS/SCI with Polygraph.

• Demonstrated experience collaborating with hybrid teams to research, build, and deploy complex, user-friendly analytical platforms.

• Track record of creative problem solving, active learning, and mission-focused outcomes.

• Experience with the following:

  • AI/ML production engineering

  • LLMOps / MLOps

  • RAG architectures

  • AI orchestration frameworks

  • Kubernetes-based AI deployments

  • OpenAI-compatible APIs

  • Python development

  • GPU inference optimization

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting military or intelligence community customers.

• Familiarity with Azure/C2S, hardware platforms (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs), and advanced analytical methodologies (social network analysis, supply chain analysis, NLP, classification algorithms, image processing).

• Familiarity with the following technologies

  • LangGraph

  • Semantic Kernel

  • vLLM

  • Ollama

  • Ray

  • NVIDIA GPU ecosystems

  • Vector databases

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

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Pay Range:

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