Principal AI/ML Engineer (Large Language Model)

Job ID 324356 Job Title: Principal AI/ML Engineer (Large Language Model) Job Category: Science Time Type: Full time Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI Employee Type: Regular Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10% Type of Travel: Local Anticipated Posting End: 12/2/2026The Opportunity:

The Principal AI/ML Engineer will support the development of AI/ML algorithms in a multitude of disciplines from object detection/classification, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, and large language models.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a multidisciplined team consisting of developers and researchers to implement machine learning algorithms to solve a broad set of challenges for our various customers
• Apply Large Language Models (LLMs) to a variety of applications within remote sensing such as tasking collections, identifying gaps in collection plans, analyzing patterns of life, and more.
• Fine tune foundation models and building adaptors for new applications (llama factory, PEFT)
• Apply retrieval augmented generation (RAG) techniques to data to populate and query vector databases (e.g. Weaviate)
• Build custom applications with LLM frameworks such as LangChain, DSPy
• Deploy LLM solutions across cloud-based and local resources using kubernetes (llama.ccp, vllm etc)
• Analyze large multi-domain datasets such as images, text and/or graph data, to identify statistically relevant features to build models that provide analysts with actionable data
• Review relevant publications to understand and apply cutting edge concepts to defense and commercial applications
• Interface with both internal and external leadership to communicate technical status

Qualifications

*Required:*

• Active TS/SCI Clearance
• BS in machine learning, computer science, mathematics, or related fields.
• 10+ years of experience, preferably in software development or as a data scientist with 2+ years of building LLM applications using some of the f...