AI/ML Delivery Engineer

This position is fully remote; travel to NIH for onboarding at the applicant's expense may be required. Must be a US Person and able to obtain a Tier 3 Public Trust clearance.

About the Role

The AI/ML Delivery Engineer is a hands-on senior practitioner who designs, builds, and scales enterprise AI, ML, and data products across cloud environments. This role combines deep engineering expertise with solution architecture, delivery leadership, and executive-level communication. It supports the NIH mission by delivering secure, scalable, and innovative AI and data solutions that accelerate biomedical research, improve operational efficiency, and enable data-driven decision-making to advance human health.

The ideal candidate can move from strategy to production implementation across intelligent search, generative AI chat, agentic workflows, predictive ML, computer vision, and medical AI imaging. They bridge data science, software engineering, platform engineering, and security to deliver robust, governed, cost-aware, fit-for-mission AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver end-to-end AI/ML and generative AI solutions across the full lifecycle, including data integration, feature engineering, model development, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Design scalable, secure, and governed AI/ML architectures that support enterprise data management, cloud-native services, distributed computing, and high-performance workloads.
• Develop and deploy production-ready AI solutions using modern techniques for large language models, intelligent search, workflow automation, model evaluation, monitoring, and continuous optimization.
• Integrate enterprise AI and cloud services with organizational data platforms, security controls, governance frameworks, and operational processes.
• Deliver AI and machine learning solutions across domains such as natural language processing, computer vision, predictive analytics, intelligent search, multimodal AI, and other mission-focused applications using industry-standard frameworks and tools.
• Design secure application programming interfaces (APIs), integration services, data pipelines, and orchestration workflows that enable AI capabilities to be reliably consumed by enterprise systems and end users.
• Serve as the AI/ML technical authority for cross-functional data science, engineering, platform, security, infrastructure, and business teams.
• Lead architecture reviews, AI readiness assessments, performance benchmarking, and infrastructure trade-off analysis for large-scale cloud, GPU, and distributed data workloads.
• Establish MLOps, LLMOps, and ModelOps practices for CI/CD, experiment tracking, model registry, prompt/model versioning, automated testing, deployment promotion, rollback, drift/quality monitoring, lineage, and cost optimization.
• Define responsible AI controls for privacy, IAM, key management, audit logging, PHI/PII handling, explainability, model cards, bias/risk assessment, human oversight, and agentic guardrails.
• Mentor engineers and data scientists while communicating complex AI concepts through clear solution narratives, architecture diagrams, demonstrations, and executive-ready materials.
• Support solutioning activities by shaping technical approaches, estimating delivery patterns, and contributing to client responses.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics/Statistics, Bioinformatics, Data Science, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of related experience.
• Hands-on experience with modern enterprise data platforms and cloud-native data architectures, including distributed data processing, data governance, machine learning lifecycle management, and batch and streaming data pipelines.
• Production experience developing, deploying, and supporting AI/ML and generative AI solutions, including intelligent search, large language model (LLM) applications, workflow automation, model serving, evaluation, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Experience with modern machine learning and deep learning frameworks, libraries, and tools for developing, training, evaluating, and deploying AI/ML solutions.
• Experience designing, deploying, and managing AI/ML solutions in one or more major cloud environments, including cloud-native AI services, identity and access management, networking, security, and infrastructure.
• Experience working with large, complex, sensitive, or regulated datasets, including data integration, migration, quality management, analytics, visualization, and governance in government, healthcare, or other regulated environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, and executive leadership.

Skills

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• End-to-End Testing
• Machine Learning (ML)

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Competitive pay and paid time off.
• Full-flex work week to own priorities at work and at home.
• 15 days of paid leave per calendar year (prorated based on hire date) for vacations, personal business, and illness.
• 10 paid holidays per year (prorated based on hire date).
• Paid Family Leave program providing up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.
• Short and long-term disability benefits, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.
• Internal mobility team focused on career growth.
• AI-powered career tool for identifying career steps and learning opportunities.
• Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace.

Pay

The likely salary range for this position is $153,000 - $207,000. Salary will be set based on experience, geographic location, and possibly contractual requirements.

Schedule

• Scheduled weekly hours: 40
• Telecommuting options: Remote work from any location