Requisition Number: 30541
Required Travel: 0 - 10%
Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt
Anticipated Salary Range: $110,190.00 - $150,000.00
Security Clearance: Secret
Level of Experience: Mid
Job Description
Seeking an experienced Senior AI Solutions Engineer to design, develop, integrate, deploy, secure, and optimize Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions within an enterprise Information Technology environment.
The successful candidate will work across the full AI solution lifecycle, transforming customer and mission requirements into secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable AI-enabled capabilities. This position will work closely with customers, software developers, cloud and infrastructure engineers, cybersecurity personnel, data professionals, and other technical stakeholders.
Essential Job Responsibilities
• • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance AI-powered applications and enterprise solutions.
• Develop solutions utilizing large language models (LLMs), generative AI, machine learning, and other modern AI technologies.
• Work with customers and technical stakeholders to identify use cases, understand mission and business requirements, and translate those requirements into effective AI solutions.
• Integrate AI capabilities into new and existing enterprise applications, systems, data sources, and business workflows.
• Design and implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions using enterprise data and knowledge sources.
• Develop and refine prompts, system instructions, context-management strategies, and other techniques designed to improve AI solution accuracy, reliability, and usefulness.
• Develop, consume, and manage APIs and services supporting communication between AI models, applications, databases, and enterprise systems.
• Design and implement data ingestion, transformation, indexing, search, retrieval, and processing capabilities supporting AI solutions.
• Provision, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure supporting AI applications and workloads.
• Implement identity, authentication, authorization, role-based access controls, and other security mechanisms protecting AI systems and information.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity personnel to identify vulnerabilities, implement appropriate security controls, and support applicable cybersecurity requirements.
• Implement safeguards designed to protect sensitive information and reduce the risk of unauthorized access, disclosure, or inappropriate use of data.
• Support Responsible AI practices, including appropriate consideration of accuracy, transparency, privacy, security, reliability, and human oversight.
• Evaluate AI models, platforms, frameworks, tools, and architectural approaches based on technical requirements, mission needs, security considerations, performance, and cost.
• Evaluate and test AI-generated results for accuracy, relevance, consistency, and reliability.
• Develop methods for measuring and improving AI solution performance and effectiveness.
• Monitor application and model performance, availability, reliability, usage, resource consumption, and operating costs.
• Optimize model selection, API consumption, token utilization, compute resources, storage, and other cloud services to improve performance and control costs.
• Troubleshoot application, model, integration, infrastructure, data, and performance issues throughout the AI solution lifecycle.
• Participate in source control, code review, testing, configuration management, CI/CD, and DevSecOps processes.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including solution architecture, data flows, interfaces, configurations, security controls, deployment procedures, operating procedures, and troubleshooting information.
• Support proofs of concept and prototypes and assist in transitioning successful solutions into secure, supportable production capabilities.
• Remain current on emerging AI technologies, large language models, cloud services, cybersecurity risks, Responsible AI practices, and industry developments.
• Communicate complex AI and technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Minimum Qualifications
• Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance for the duration of employment.
• Be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret (TS) clearance if required by the customer or assigned duties.
• Possess and maintain a current CompTIA Security+ certification.
• Possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or Mathematics with a concentration in Computer Science.
• Possess a minimum of three (3) years of professional experience in computer design, software development, computer networks, or directly related technical work.
Desired Technical Experience
Relevant experience may include one or more of the following:
• Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI
• Microsoft Azure AI services
• Azure OpenAI Service
• Azure AI Foundry and related AI development services
• OpenAI or comparable commercial/open-source model platforms
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Prompt engineering and context engineering
• AI agents and agentic workflows
• Vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, and enterprise search
• Python, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, or comparable programming languages
• REST APIs, web services, and application integration
• Microsoft Azure or comparable cloud platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud
• Cloud infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Azure Functions, App Service, containers, Kubernetes, or comparable application-hosting technologies
• SQL, NoSQL, and other enterprise data technologies
• Data ingestion, transformation, indexing, and retrieval
• Identity and access management, including Microsoft Entra ID or comparable technologies
• Git, GitHub, or comparable source-control platforms
• CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices
• Application and cloud security
• AI security and data-protection practices
• Model evaluation, testing, monitoring, and observability
• AI governance and Responsible AI practices
• Performance and cloud-cost optimization
• Development and deployment of enterprise AI applications
Preferred Requirements
• Possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or Mathematics with a concentration in Computer Science.
• Possess a minimum of three (3) years of professional experience in computer design, software development, computer networks, or directly related technical work.
Physical Requirements
Adequate visual acuity and manual dexterity for meeting the requirements of job.
The listed salary range for this role is intended as a good faith estimate based on the role's location, expectations, and responsibilities. When extending an offer, HII's Mission Technologies division takes a variety of factors into consideration which include, but are not limited to, the role's function and a candidate's education or training, work experience, and key skills.
To learn more about Mission Technologies, click here for a short video: https://vimeo.com/[redacted]
HII is more than a job - it's an opportunity to build a new future. We offer competitive benefits such as best-in-class medical, dental and vision plan choices; wellness resources; employee assistance programs; Savings Plan Options (401(k)); financial planning tools, life insurance; employee discounts; paid holidays and paid time off; tuition reimbursement; as well as early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships. Bonus/other non-recurrent compensation is occasionally offered for qualified positions, and if applicable to this role will be addressed by the recruiter at the screening phase of application.
