Senior AI Engineer (SWE-3)

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. They are seeking a motivated Senior AI Engineer to support their AI and Emerging Technologies mission, focusing on software engineering and AI/ML techniques to enhance vulnerability identification and mitigation capabilities. The role involves collaborating with technical leadership to design and develop AI tools and frameworks, contributing to mission success through innovative technology solutions.

Responsibilities:

• 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