[Remote] AI Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Parsons Corporation is seeking an AI Engineer to join their team, where you will provide technical advisory support for AI-enabled applications and workflows. The role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure AI efforts are technically grounded and operationally relevant while staying current with the evolving AI ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Provide SETA support to government teams developing or assessing AI-enabled applications and tools
- Advise on technical approaches for AI application design, prototyping, integration, and evaluation
- Assess solutions involving LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, agentic workflows, orchestration layers, prompt pipelines, and evaluation harnesses
- Support the review of architectures, development approaches, model usage patterns, and technical risk areas
- Advise on AI engineering considerations such as latency, reliability, observability, testability, guardrails, data flow, and system integration
- Evaluate and compare modern AI frameworks, agentic libraries, and experimentation harnesses for suitability in mission use cases
- Assist with the development of technical guidance, prototypes, engineering recommendations, and briefings for government stakeholders
- Support test and evaluation activities for AI tools, including performance assessment, qualitative review, and workflow validation
- Collaborate with platform engineers, product leads, mission users, and government leadership to ensure AI efforts remain technically grounded and operationally relevant
- Stay current on rapid changes in the AI ecosystem and provide informed recommendations on emerging tools and practices
Skills
- Min 18 years with Bachelors, 15 years with Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or related field
- Experience designing, building, integrating, or evaluating AI/ML-enabled applications or software tools
- Familiarity with modern AI application patterns, including LLM-based applications, RAG, prompt engineering, agentic systems, and AI-assisted workflows
- Working knowledge of one or more agentic or orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI, Haystack, LlamaIndex, or similar ecosystems
- Experience with software development fundamentals, APIs, data handling, and system integration
- Ability to assess technical tradeoffs and communicate them clearly to both engineers and government stakeholders
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Active TS SCI w/Polygraph security clearance required
- Experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages commonly used in AI application development
- Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, model APIs, evaluation frameworks, and agent testing harnesses
- Exposure to model hosting, inference pipelines, or cloud-based AI development environments
- Understanding of secure AI development practices, data protection, and operational constraints in government settings
- Experience supporting defense, cyber, intelligence, or mission application development
- Familiarity with human-in-the-loop workflows, AI assurance, and evaluation methodologies
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Paid time off
- 401(k)
- Life insurance
- Flexible work schedules
- Holidays
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