AI/ML Engineer - ACG / AEA

Description: *Remote*

*Contingent Contract Award*

*6 month opportunity*

*Springfield, VA*

Connected Logistics

is seeking an AI/ML Engineer to build and integrate machine learning components into enterprise workflows. The focus is on implementing models, RAG pipelines, and supporting services that enable automation, classification, retrieval, and intelligent decision support. Ideally, the engineer should have prior successes building and deploying RAG + ML services in production. This opportunity is expected to last for six (6) months with travel to Washington, DC.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop ML models and supporting services for classification, clustering, similarity search, and prediction.
• Implement RAG pipelines: document ingestion, embedding generation, vector indexing, and retrieval tuning.
• Build APIs and microservices to expose model capabilities to enterprise systems.
• Integrate ML components into existing DevSecOps pipelines (Azure DevOps, CI/CD workflows).
• Implement duplicate detection, ticket routing, SLA prediction, and root-cause assist features.
• Optimize model performance for latency, throughput, and accuracy.
• Conduct model evaluation, error analysis, and iterative tuning.
• Work with Data Engineer to align data pipelines with model input requirements.
• Ensure outputs are explainable, auditable, and compliant with governance controls.

Requirements: * Minimum 10 years of experience in AI/ML engineering, software development, or data science. * Master’s degree required in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. * Must have an Active Public Trust clearance or higher. * Strong experience with Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn). * Experience with embeddings, vector similarity search, and retrieval systems. * Experience building and deploying APIs or microservices for ML inference. * Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure environments. * Experience integrating into CI/CD pip...