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AI/ML Engineer

BAE Systems

Sterling, VAFull-time$150–254K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$150–254K/yr
Location
Sterling, VA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

BAE Systems seeks an AI/ML Engineer to develop and deploy intelligent systems and analytic algorithms for an enterprise lab supporting an intelligence community customer. The role includes model development, data pipelines, monitoring, validation, and recommendations on emerging intelligence methodologies. The lab supports multiple classification levels and uses multi-intelligence data to develop tradecraft and address customer needs.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

AI/ML Development, requiredLarge Language Models, requiredTensorFlow, requiredPyTorch, requiredScikit-Learn, requiredData Visualization, requiredData Storytelling, requiredNatural Language Processing, requiredComputer Vision, requiredNLTK, requiredspaCy, requiredETL/TS Frameworks, requiredApache Beam, requiredAWS Glue, requiredHadoop, requiredSpark, requiredKafka, requiredCommunication, requiredOrganization, requiredFollow-Through, requiredAttention to Detail, requiredProblem-Solving, requiredMicrosoft Office, required

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Related STEM, required10 Years Work Experience or Equivalent, required

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

Job Description

BAE Systems, a top ten prime contractor to the U.S. Department of War, enables the U.S. government to transform data into intelligence and provides engineering, integration and sustainment support for critical military platforms and systems. Intelligence & Security provides services and products to the Department of War, the intelligence community, federal law enforcement officials, and troops deployed around the world.

We are looking for an AI/ML Engineer to support the design, development, and deployment of intelligent systems that can learn from data, make predictions, classify objects, and generate insights supporting a new Enterprise lab environment across multiple classification levels. The lab supports new and emerging paradigms to support and enhance customer capabilities and tradecraft. The enterprise lab environment will encompass multi-intelligence data infusion to enable innovative tradecraft development modeling and simulation to provide solutions for customer problems and needs. Th AI/ML Engineer will develop high-quality analytic algorithms that drive business value and mission-critical use cases in support of an IC customer.

As the AI/ML Engineer you will:

  • Design, develop, and deploy AI/ML models using popular libraries and frameworks.

  • Conduct feature engineering and feature selection to optimize model performance.

  • Collaborate with Data Engineers to prepare data for AI/ML model development, ensuring that the data is in a suitable format for model training.

  • Implement AI/ML algorithms, including design, training, testing, verification, and validation activities.

  • Develop and implement data pipelines to enable retrieval of data from federated data systems (e.g., cloud storage or on-premises databases).

  • Develop and implement monitoring systems to ensure AI/ML model reliability and performance, using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or New Relic.

  • Stay up to date on best practices and emerging technologies in AI/ML, including advancements in deep learning, natural language processing, and computer vision.

  • Assess and provide recommendations on emerging intelligence methodologies and tools

  • Validate work against real and simulated data making corrections for non-ideal data artifacts.

  • Brief internal stakeholders, internal subject matter experts, and potentially customers.

  • Build collaborative relationships with key leaders and peers, both internally and externally, across the organization.XYZ

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related STEM field and 10 years work experience or equivalent experience

  • Understanding of the AI/ML development process, Large Language Models (LLMs), and their applications in AI.

  • Knowledge of AI/ML libraries and frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, Pytorch, Scikit-learn).

  • Knowledge of data visualization tools (e.g., Matplotlib, Seaborn) and data storytelling techniques.

  • Familiarity with natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision libraries (e.g., NLTK, spaCy).

  • Experience with ETL/TS tools and frameworks (e.g., Apache Beam, AWS Glue).

  • Familiarity with big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka.

  • Strong communication skills with the ability to work across engineering disciplines

  • Excellent organizational and follow through skills.

  • Strong communication (written and verbal) skills.

  • Detail oriented with problem-solving skills.

  • Proficient in Microsoft Office

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $149603 - $254317

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.

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How this job compares

Set against the 544 open AI/ML Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$150–254K/yr
  • Virginia median$131–210K/yr33 salary ranges
  • US median$118–209K/yr439 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $202K, is 18% above the Virginia median midpoint ($171K) — in the middle half of AI/ML Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 44 open AI/ML Engineer jobs in Virginia and 544 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four AI/ML Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 490 postings).
Education
218 of the 544 open AI/ML Engineer jobs (40%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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