Lead, Artificial Intelligence

What you'll do

• Lead the technical delivery of AI initiatives from initial concept through deployment and continuous improvement.
• Define AI architecture, technical standards, reusable patterns, and best practices aligned with mission needs.
• Provide expert guidance on technology selection, solution design, risk management, and implementation priorities.
• Establish practical AI governance for secure, compliant, and trustworthy use of artificial intelligence.
• Mentor engineers and data professionals to strengthen internal AI knowledge and delivery discipline.
• Design scalable AI platforms including data/model pipelines, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Assess emerging tools and vendors to establish roadmaps that connect AI investments to organizational outcomes.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree and minimum 9 years of relevant experience, or a graduate degree and minimum 7 years of related experience.
• 3+ years of experience designing and implementing successful solutions using AI technologies.
• 3+ years of experience with machine learning, LLMs, RAG, and AI solutions.
• 3+ years of experience with Differentiable Programming libraries (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) and Database Manipulation libraries (e.g., SQL, NoSQL, Pandas, PySpark).
• Ability to obtain and maintain an FAA public trust or Top-Secret clearance.
• Experience with cloud AI services, LLM orchestration frameworks, RAG, vector databases, and MLOps/LLMOps tooling (preferred).
• Experience developing, fine-tuning, evaluating, or operating large language models and open-source models (preferred).
• U.S. citizens.