Artificial Intelligence Engineer (Multiple Levels)

Noblis delivers advanced scientific, engineering, and management solutions for critical federal, defense, intelligence, and civilian missions. The Artificial Intelligence Engineer will work with mission users and data engineers to design, develop, and deploy secure AI/ML solutions, automate analyst workflows, and deliver scalable capabilities in classified environments. The role supports multiple experience levels and includes developing LLM, NLP, computer vision, and agentic AI applications.

What you'll do:

• Collaborate directly with mission users and stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and translate operational requirements into well-defined AI/ML solution designs that address mission-critical objectives
• Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI solutions—including large language models (LLMs), natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, and agentic AI applications—within secure, classified environments
• Partner with data engineers to ingest, transform, and curate complex datasets, ensuring data quality and readiness for model training, evaluation, and inference
• Build and maintain automated machine learning (ML) pipelines using Python, incorporating prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), fine-tuning, and model evaluation to accelerate delivery of AI capabilities
• Conduct A/B testing, performance benchmarking, and production monitoring of deployed models to ensure reliability, accuracy, and continuous improvement over time
• Automate analyst workflows by integrating AI-driven tools and capabilities into existing mission systems, reducing manual effort and enabling faster, data-informed decision-making
• Ensure all AI solutions comply with security protocols, accreditation requirements, and intelligence community standards for operating within sensitive and classified environments
• Communicate technical findings, model performance metrics, and solution recommendations to both technical teams and non-technical mission stakeholders through clear documentation and briefings

What they're looking for:

• Experience designing, building, and deploying production AI solutions supporting mission operations
• Experience developing large language models (LLM), natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, and agentic AI applications, and integrating them into secure environments using Python and automated machine learning (ML) pipelines
• Experience with prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), fine-tuning, model evaluation, A/B testing, and production monitoring
• US Citizenship is required
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph
• Bachelor's degree OR Masters OR PhD with 0 years of experience OR Associate's degree with 3 years of experience OR High-School with 6 years of experience
• Bachelor's degree with 3 years of experience OR Master's Degree with 1 years of experience OR PhD with 0 years of experience OR Associate's degree with 6 years of experience OR High-School with 9 years of experience
• Travel up to 10% within US
• Lift up to 30 lbs, walk, bend, drive
• Prior experience working within the counterterrorism mission area
• Prior experience working within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
• Prior experience working with an intelligence community department or agency

Benefits:

• Health benefits
• Life benefits
• Disability benefits
• Financial benefits
• Retirement benefits
• Paid leave
• Professional development
• Tuition assistance
• Work-life programs
• Award programs acknowledging employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of service standards