AI Engineer SME
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Description
Be Challenged and Make a Difference
In a world of technology, people make the difference. We believe if we invest in great people, then great things will happen. At AnaVation, we provide unmatched value to our customers and employees through innovative solutions and an engaging culture.
Description of Task to be Performed:
AnaVation is seeking a highly skilled AI Engineer to join our high-performing team and lead the research, design, development, and execution of specialized operational and analytic cyber capabilities in support of real-world missions.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- 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.
Required Qualifications:
- Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and ability to obtain a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.
- Bachelor's degree or master's degree with 10 years of experience specializing in AI/ML engineering
- Hands-on experience deploying production AI/GenAI and LLM systems, including embeddings, multi-model and multimodal orchestration, reasoning, memory, and tool execution.
- Proficiency with PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), with practical MLOps experience using MLflow, Azure ML, or Vertex AI.
- Experience implementing NLP, computer vision, reinforcement learning, temporal, spatial, geographic, or quantitative AI capabilities, including named entity recognition, contextual entity extraction, and entity resolution.
- Experience developing multi-step retrieval and structured output workflows with source citations, provenance, and traceable analytic results.
- Expertise in data architecture integrating vector, graph, and relational databases, including automated ETL pipeline development, scheduling, optimization, complex parsing, and schema-aligned ingestion and normalization of structured and unstructured data.
- Experience implementing data-layer Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) and end-to-end data lineage tracking.
- Experience supporting air-gapped, hybrid, and on-premises environments, including locally hosted GPU servers, hyperconverged infrastructure, container orchestration, distributed systems, and multitenant Cross-Domain Solutions (CDS).
- Proficiency in full-stack application development and integration using TypeScript, React, Python, FastAPI, LanceDB, Lance Graph, PostgreSQL, Temporal.io, Docker, and Kubernetes to connect user interfaces, backend services, middleware, retrieval systems, databases, and AI/GenAI services.
- Experience delivering and maintaining solutions in agile engineering environments.
- Requires an active Top Secret (TS) clearance and the ability to obtain SCI access with a CI polygraph.
- Requires the ability to work on-site in Chantilly, VA.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in federal, defense, or highly regulated environments.
- Knowledge of ethical AI, governance frameworks, and secure development practices.
- Skills in large-scale optimization, GPU acceleration, or distributed training.
- Experience building APIs, microservices, and automated ML workflows.
Benefits
- Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
- 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
- 100% company paid long-term and short-term disability insurance
- 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
- 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
- Competitive Pay
- Generous paid leave and holiday package
- Tuition and training reimbursement
- Life and AD&D Insurance
About AnaVation
AnaVation is the leader in solving the most complex technical challenges for collection and processing in the U.S. Federal Intelligence Community. We are a US owned company headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. We deliver groundbreaking research with advanced software and systems engineering that provides an information advantage to contribute to the mission and operational success of our customers. We offer complex challenges, a top-notch work environment, and a world-class, collaborative team.
If you want to grow your career and make a difference while doing it, AnaVation is the perfect fit for you!
AnaVation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Skills
- ABAC
- Agentic AI
- Agile
- AI
- API
- AWS
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Computer Vision
- Containerization
- Data Lineage
- Distributed Systems
- Distributed Training
- Docker
- Embeddings
- ETL
- FastAPI
- GCP
- Generative AI
- GPU
- Kubernetes
- LLM
- Machine Learning
- Microservices
- MLflow
- MLOps
- NLP
- PostgreSQL
- Python
- PyTorch
- RDBMS
- React
- Reinforcement Learning
- scikit-learn
- TensorFlow
- TypeScript
- Vector Databases
- Vertex AI
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- Are you Legally Authorized to Work in the United States? In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire optional
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- I expressly understand and agree that, if employed, my employment, having no specified term, is based upon mutual consent and may be terminated at will, with or without cause, by either party (AnaVation, LLC or me) without prior notice to the other, unless otherwise prohibited by law. Additionally, I understand that no representation, whether oral or written, by any representative or agent of AnaVation, LLC, at any time, can constitute an implied or express contract of employment. I further understand no representative or agent of AnaVation, LLC has the authority to enter into an agreement for employment for any specified period of time or to make any change in any policy, procedure, benefit or other terms or condition of employment other than in a document signed by the Chief Executive Officer or an authorized representative. optional
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