Senior AI Engineer

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Department Summary:

MITRE’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HCAI) Solutions department in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Autonomy Innovation Center is seeking a qualified Senior AI Engineer to develop interfaces and tools for humans to leverage AI and Machine Learning (ML) technologies in solving problems for a safer world. The department applies human-centered engineering to AI and software development practices, empowering diverse human teams and AI-enabled systems to produce greater outcomes together than either could alone. The department supports a wide range of sponsors and internal customers and is active in MITRE’s internal research program. The successful candidate will apply modern web frameworks and methodologies to build frontend tools that leverage AI, Large Language Models (LLM), and ML.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Assist MITRE and government sponsors in architecting and implementing solutions to solve challenging problems in domains such as healthcare, intelligence, and defense.
• Inform, advise, and advocate for appropriate AI solutions given sponsor demands, timelines, and computing infrastructure.
• Understand and practice the full AI lifecycle including initial research, dataset creation and evaluation, model training and evaluation, productionizing models, and building user-facing data visualization and web app prototypes.
• Help to enhance sponsor AI readiness across the dimensions specified by MITRE’s AI Maturity Model: Ethical, Equitable, and Responsible Use, Strategy and Resources; Organization Culture and Structure; Technology Enablers; Data Management; and Performance and Application.
• Maintain awareness of the current State-of-the-Art techniques and actively look for ways in which they can be applied for MITRE and their sponsors.
• Lead small projects or have accountability for project tasks; planning and guiding the work of others in the technical development of AI research and solutions.
• Work independently and on teams to develop prototypes using modern AI and software engineering techniques with minimal instruction, guidance, and direction.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• 4 years of related experience with Python.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms and their appropriate applications.
• Experience with data processing libraries such as numpy, pandas, or similar.
• Experience with AI/ML libraries such as scikit-learn, HuggingFace, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and/or JAX.
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering, object-oriented programming, and software architecture and understanding of team software development best practices including git, documentation, code quality tools, issue and timeline tracking, and team collaboration.
• Ability to work independently to learn new technologies, techniques, processes, languages, platforms, and systems.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain DoD Secret clearance.
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance.
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related degree.
• Experience implementing AI solutions using domain specific libraries (e.g., NLTK or LangChain for NLP, OpenCV for Images, etc.).
• AI Infrastructure Experience – hosting and serving AI models and familiarity with optimization technologies such as model runtimes and quantization.
• Data Engineering Experience – large data storage systems, databases, and data processing and ETL tools such as Nifi, PySpark, or similar.
• Results Presentation and Integration – ability to produce user facing applications such as dashboards, APIs (e.g., FastAPI or Flask), and/or prototype web front-ends (e.g., Streamlit, Dash).
• Application Development Experience with web development languages (HTML, CSS, JS) and modern frameworks (e.g., Vue, React, GO).
• Deployment Experience with DevOps tools such as GitLab or Jenkins CI/CD, Docker, or Kubernetes.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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