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# Software Engineer 3 - Sr. AI Engineer

- **Company:** Wyetech LLC
- **Location:** Linthicum Heights, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $179,296.0 - $283,442.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, Confluence, JIRA, Audit Trail, Automation of Tests, Profiling, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Meta-Data Management, Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Git, Information Technology
- **Published:** September 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9062062/software-engineer-3-sr-ai-engineer

## About the Role

* TS/SCI with agency appropriate poly
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, plus 8-years of relevant experience or equivalent.

Required Technical Skills

 * Proficiency in Python, LLM integration, and data engineering. Experience with static analyzers, RAG framework, and relational and vector databases. Familiarization with Agile, Git, Jira, and Confluence.

Desired Technical Skills

 * Familiarization with RUST, Claude Code, Codex, and CI/CD.

## Description

Seeking a motivated Senior AI Engineer with a proven track record in software engineering and deep understanding of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) techniques to support the exciting new AI and Emerging Technologies (AI&ET) mission. The engineer will work closely with mission stakeholders to capture requirements, aid in structured planning, and improve the certification process by introducing AI/ML tooling. Additionally, the engineer will use AI/ML to develop tools and techniques to include fine tuning Large Language Models (LLM) that assist in enhanced vulnerability identification and mitigation capabilities.

Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency appropriate polygraph).

Capabilities

 * Collaborate closely with technical leadership to design, develop, and maintain LLM orchestration frameworks that coordinate static analyzers, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and automated testing pipelines.
 * Develop and optimize data preprocessing pipelines to ingest, clean, transform, and vectorize product documentation, source code, and test results for LLM consumption.
 * Design and implement database solutions to support RAG architectures, artifact storage, audit trails, and metadata management.
 * Collaboratively work with systems engineers to architect and deploy networked AI tools within secure enclaves and conduct performance profiling, optimization, and scalability analysis of mission systems.
 * Support security assessments and authority to operate (ATO) processes.


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