Sr. AI/ML Engineer

You will support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with a Veteran first vision to transform the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) with greater visibility into claims processing. Together, we’re building a future of fast, transparent claims, empowered teams, and striving for a zero backlog, directly supporting Veterans and making a real impact on the lives of those who served. This high-impact solution accelerates the delivery of benefits to Veterans and their families.

The Senior AI/ML Engineer candidate will also be expected to interpret and decompose business requirements into data design patterns for building and maturing large language models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) to support an artificial intelligence (AI) solution. This candidate will work closely with Business Analysts to investigate, implement, and calibrate our AI solutions to achieve the desired VBA outcomes. This candidate will support the establishment of AI performance baselines for generating clinical summaries to improve accuracy and will require continuous reviews with VBA stakeholders.

In this role, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to major company challenges. You will team with world-class professionals to develop and test strategies that ultimately impact the bottom line. And you will do it all in a collaborative environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation. Key responsibilities include researching and selecting commercial and open-source foundation models, building and evaluating ML/AI pipelines across structured and unstructured data (including embeddings/vector stores), and deploying and operating models in AWS (e.g., Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, S3, Textract). The engineer establishes performance baselines (including clinical summary generation), implements monitoring and alerting to ensure reliability and scalability, documents technical designs and best practices and collaborates across Scrum teams to integrate AI and agentic AI into UCAP workflows while validating results against desired VBA outcomes., · Interprets business goals by implementing AI and Agentic AI to achieve desired business outcomes.

· Utilizes machine learning based tools to monitor and analyze model performance.

· Design, develop and implement machine learning algorithms and AI models to address business challenges and opportunities, such as predictive analytics, natural language processing, object recognition, computer vision and recommendation systems.

· Research and evaluate available AI/LLM/LMM solutions (including commercial models via Bedrock, open-source options, etc.).

· Design solutions for the collection and preparation of structured and unstructured data from various sources, ensuring data quality, integrity and relevance for model training and evaluation.

· Monitor model performance, reliability, and scalability in production environments, implementing automated monitoring and alerting systems to detect anomalies and performance degradation.

· Document technical designs, implementation details, and best practices for AI solutions.

• Collaborating with all Scrum Teams to integrate AI and Agentic AI into the workflow functionality for UCAP.
• Reviews test results for compliance against desired VBA outcomes.
• Utilizing professional judgement, critical thinking skills and research to improve processes and resolve issues affecting program performance.

Do you have experience in Research?, * Bachelor’s Degree in business related field, engineering, or a related scientific or technical discipline with at least 5+ years of experience.

• Must have 2+ years of hands-on experience researching, evaluating, selecting, and incorporating AI/LLM tools and foundation models to address enterprise-scale use cases.
• Must have 2+ years of data modeling and data engineering tasks (including handling unstructured data, embeddings, or vector stores).
• Must have 3+ years working in AWS environments, including deployments, best practices, and relevant services (e.g., Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, S3, Textract, or similar).
• Strong programming skills (Python preferred; experience with R, JavaScript, or Scala is a plus).
• Understanding and experience with Agile & Lean principles & methodologies for incremental development and deployment
• Must demonstrate critical thinking skills to resolve operational issues and identify risks and mitigation.
• Must have outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present business leaders.
• Must be able to obtain a Position of Trust and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting.

$100,000 - $130,000 a year - Full-time, Pulled from the full job description

• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance, * Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Vision insurance

HLP Integration is a leading provider of data and document management solutions, specializing in tailored technologies that leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence. We work with commercial and government clients to identify critical information that facilitates conclusive business decisions with accuracy and efficiency.

HLP Integration is a dynamic small business with a diverse and inclusive team, where every employee collaborates directly with senior leadership. We take pride in fostering an environment where all voices are heard, innovation is encouraged at every level, and everyone can chart their own career course. At HLP Integration, we believe in the power of collaboration, and our close-knit culture allows us to deliver personalized solutions and exceptional service to our clients. As a proud supporter of veterans both on our team and in our work, we are committed to providing opportunities for those who have served our country, and we value the unique perspectives they bring to our team.