Senior AI/ML Engineer

X8 is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to support the U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) AI Enterprise capability. The role turns AI prototypes into secure, governed, enterprise-scale services by building production-ready models, agents, and workflows for mission teams.

Responsibilities:

• Provide embedded mission support, rapid prototyping, and integration of AI/ML-enabled capabilities
• Design LLM and agent orchestration workflows using LangGraph, Agno, NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit, or similar frameworks
• Optimize model gateway routing across frontier and open-weight models for mission fit, performance, and cost
• Develop RAG pipelines, vector databases, and memory services for mission-grounded agent context
• Integrate MCP-based tool brokers for secure agent access to enterprise tools and data
• Build automated model/agent evaluations, benchmarks, monitoring, and performance reporting
• Partner with data scientists and mission analysts to produce research and prototypes
• Implement AI governance guardrails, policy enforcement, safety filters, and approval gates