Senior AI Engineer at Precise Software Solutions in Washington, DC

Apply Description Precise Software Solutions Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to provide hands-on, senior-level engineering for secure AI-enabled applications for the U.S. Government. You will add expert capacity during peak demand - major releases, new AI use cases, model retraining, and security testing. Working with the core engineering team and following the architecture standards, you will build and tune LLM, RAG, and agentic solutions, lead adversarial testing before releases, and serve as an escalation resource for production AI issues. Must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder). Must reside in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and be able to work on-site 3x a week at DC Government offices. Must be able to obtain and maintain a NACI (Tier 1) background investigation. Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, integrate, and deploy AI-enabled applications and services, including LLM integrations, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, embeddings, vector search, and agentic workflows. Implement model evaluation, hallucination reduction, retrieval quality tuning, and performance optimization, and provide side-by-side model comparisons for major model or retrieval changes. Lead AI-specific security and adversarial testing (prompt injection, jailbreak, data poisoning, unsafe output) before releases, and document and mitigate findings. Enforce environment promotion controls (DEV to PROD), including security scans, testing, and TEVV gates. Support MLOps workflows, including model versioning, drift detection, retraining, and release documentation. Serve as a Tier 2/Tier 3 escalation resource for production AI issues, and support incident response and root-cause analysis. Contribute to engineering deliverables such as RAG pipeline designs, AI system test plans, adversarial testing reports, SBOMs, and environment configuration baselines. Conduct code and prompt reviews and mentor developers, applying the architecture standards set by the Lead AI Engineer. Requirements Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems, or a related technical discipline and 5+ years of relevant experience. Three additional years of relevant experience may substitute for the degree. 5+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering, AI-enabled application development, data engineering, cloud engineering, or software engineering, including direct development, testing, and operational support of AI-enabled systems. 1+ year of hands-on experience with Generative AI, LLM integration, RAG, model evaluation, agentic AI, or production AI systems. Strong proficiency in Python and experience developing AI-enabled applications, APIs, services, and automation. Experience designing and deploying RAG pipelines, semantic retrieval, vector databases, cloud-based AI services, and AI workflow orchestration. Experience conducting AI-specific adversarial testing (prompt injection, jailbreak, data poisoning) and documenting mitigations. Experience working in FedRAMP-authorized environments and applying the FISMA Moderate NIST SP 800-53 control baseline. Experience developing AI-enabled user interfaces that conform to Section 508 / WCAG 2.1 A and AA, and supporting release management and operations. At least one current Generative AI or Machine Learning certification (e.g., Microsoft Azure AI, AWS Generative AI or Machine Learning, Google Cloud, Databricks Generative AI Engineer, NVIDIA Generative AI, or CAIP), with verifiable evidence. Must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder). Must reside in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and be able to work on-site at Government offices. Must be able to obtain and maintain a NACI (Tier 1) background investigation. Preferred Qualifications Master's degree in a related field and 7+ years of experience, including support of federal agency programs. Experience with agentic AI frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel), Model Context Protocol (MCP), and open-weight model serving (e.g., vLLM, TGI). Experience with multimodal AI (document layout, OCR/vision, audio) and structured evaluation. Experience supporting Authority to Operate (ATO) documentation and vulnerability remediation. An active NACI (Tier 1) or prior federal background investigation. ABOUT US Precise Software Solutions, Inc. is a mission-focused technology services company delivering secure digital platforms, infrastructure, and operational IT services to government organizations. A CMMI Level 3–appraised company, Precise partners with agency technology leaders and solution providers to design, build, operate, and modernize enterprise IT solutions that support critical public missions combining agility, innovation, and performance to deliver measurable results. Precise specializes in cloud and hybrid infrastructure, platform engineering, security operations and compliance, application modernization, and data platforms and analytics. The company is known for its agile, delivery-driven approach and innovative engineering practices, applying operational rigor and performance-focused execution to improve system resilience, security, and scalability across complex government environments. BENEFITS AND PERKS Comprehensive Health Benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision) Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA) Retirement Plan with 4% match and discretionary match at year end Paid Time Off (PTO): 15 days of PTO accrued per year; 7 holidays+ 3 Floating holidays; 2 Innovation days (paid training days) Short Term and Long-Term Disability Paid Parental Leave Paid Jury Duty leave Life and AD&D Insurance Critical Illness Insurance Training and Development Wellness Incentives & Discount programs Employee Referral Program Annual Charity Donation Match Awards and Recognition Equal Employment Opportunity Statement Precise Software Solutions is committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. We are an inclusive organization and actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential. We expect every member of the Precise community to do their part to cultivate and maintain an environment where everyone has the opportunity to feel included and is afforded the respect and dignity they deserve.