AI/ML Engineer

Description

SAIC is seeking an experienced AI/ML Engineer to serve as a senior technical advisor, ensuring infrastructure supports frontier AI models, mission use cases, and rapid R&D experimentation. Support model-agnostic infrastructure leveraging partnerships with AI Titans and existing enterprise solutions.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Provide expert guidance on AI/ML infrastructure requirements for models, including, for example frontier and foundational models

• Assess technical approaches for GPU cluster architecture, model training, and inference at scale

• Evaluate contractor’s model-agnostic approach and partnerships with AI Titans

• Support evaluation of AI/ML use cases

• Advise on data fusion architectures across datasets

• Assess AI model deployment, orchestration, and Machine Learning Ops (MLOps) requirements for rapid experimentation

• Guide R&D experimentation framework and capability demonstration planning

• Support experimentation support contract coordination with use case development

• Evaluate hardware benchmark performance against requirements

• Support onboarding and sustainment model development

• Support briefings to senior leadership on AI technical approaches, risks, and use case readiness

Qualifications

Required Experience:

• Active TS SCI w/Poly

• Bachelor’s degree and 14 years or more experience; Master’s degree and 12 years or more experience; PhD and 9 years or more experience

• 10+ years in data management and processing experience with strong emphasis in AI/ML

• Deep expertise in AI/ML model training and inference infrastructure

• Frontier AI models (large language models, multimodal models, etc.) and model-agnostic architectures

• GPU cluster architecture and high-performance AI computing

• MLOps, model deployment, and orchestration platforms

• Data fusion

• AI/ML frameworks

• COTS AI infrastructure and enterprise solution integration

• Partnerships with commercial AI providers and technology transfer

• Technical leadership and senior-level communication

• Rapid experimentation and use case development methodologies

Target salary range: $180,000 - $220,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

Target salary range: $200,001 - $240,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2615905

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