Description
Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph is required.
Your contributions are...
- Design, implement, and optimize infrastructure for AI model inference at scale
- Lead the development and maintenance of production AI services and applications, including retrieval augmented generation (RAG), autonomous agents, and emerging technologies
- Serve as the technical lead for AI infrastructure initiatives, coordinating efforts across integrated engineering teams
- Conduct regular one-on-ones and provide coaching, mentorship, feedback, and support for assigned team members
- Act as the team point of contact (POC) for contract administration functions
- Establish new technical policies, standards, and governance frameworks where gaps exist
- Drive adoption of new technologies, tooling, and engineering best practices across teams
- Implement and oversee monitoring, logging, and observability solutions for AI services and platforms
- Ensure the availability, reliability, scalability, performance, and security of AI platform components
- Define and implement solutions for ambiguous or underspecified systems and requirements
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders at multiple organizational levels
Requirements for your new career...
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline. (Additional 4 years of experience may substitute degree)
- 12 years of experience in software development
- Extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale production systems
- Deep expertise in systems integration across diverse technologies and platforms
- Hands-on experience with cloud engineering in AWS
- Advanced proficiency with Kubernetes administration and deployment patterns
- Strong Python programming skills
- Experience implementing and scaling observability solutions using tools such as APM platforms, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and Prometheus
- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and influence organizational change
- Experience developing technical policies, standards, and governance frameworks
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills
- Ability to balance hands-on engineering responsibilities with leadership and coordination duties
Benefits of becoming a Visionist: Your New Career
- We are a 100% employee-owned company, so our employees see the benefit of their contributions and have a stake in our overall success!
- Competitive 15% retirement contribution! (5% 401K match & 10% ESOP)
- 4 weeks paid time off that is never "use or lose", 12 paid holidays, comp time, overtime, AND flexible work hours
- 80 hours of paid parental leave with an additional $8,000 supplemental payment upon returning from maternity
- Medical, dental, & vision benefits for both individuals and families (those who waive medical benefits will receive an additional $4,160/year)
- Annual lifestyle bonus of $600 - use it towards gyms/fitness, new tech, or your HSA!
- Annual merit increases & performance-based bonuses
- Term life insurance, short-term disability, & long-term disability
Salary range: $170,000 - $240,000
Disclaimer: Salary for this position, along with additional compensation options, will be determined on an individual basis following the interview process, considering various factors such as years of experience, skills, education/certifications, contract specifications, market conditions, etc.
Not a good fit? Check out our other opportunities: https://jobs.jobvite.com/visionist
Next steps: Apply online and one of our recruiters will reach out to you. We have a streamlined process of phone screen with a recruiter, interview with a Visionist team at our HQ in Columbia, MD, and that is all!
Interested in learning more about Visionist and the work we do? Check out our website! https://www.visionistinc.com/what-we-do
U.S citizenship required (green card holders and permanent residents are not eligible). Applicants selected will be required to obtain / maintain a government security clearance.
