Senior AI Developer

Responsibilities

• Identifying cyber key terrain by analyzing operational requirements.
• Conducting cyber analyses and assessments.
• Developing and performing modeling and simulation in support of different cyber threat scenarios.
• Developing methodology and framework in support of cyber risk assessment life cycle.
• Providing capabilities to support the customer with rapid design, development, test, deployment, maintenance and operation of specific software and hardware capabilities to meet current Cyber Defensive needs.
• Taking ownership of implementing new features within a critical line of business application that support mission assurance and operational management functions.

Qualifications

• Must have an active Secret clearance and the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI Clearance.
• DoDD 8140.01 Information Assurance Management (IAM) Level I certification or higher.
• Experience with Python programming language.
• Experience with FastAPI is a plus.
• Experience developing capabilities in software applications that interface with AI systems.
• Experience using frameworks for defining various AI workflows including but not limited to any of the following: Haystack, LangChain, LlamaIndex.
• Experience implementing retrieval augmented generation (RAG) workflows.
• Experience in context engineering.
• Experience determining the inputs, shape, and size provided to AI endpoints.
• Experience architecting enrichment steps to feed into the submission context.
• Experience handling outputs received from AI calls.
• Experience defining processes to ensure system prompts and guards are included in context before submission to the AI endpoints.
• Experience developing model context protocol (MCP) servers to allow AI agents to interface with software application APIs.
• Experience evaluating the performance of different models used by capabilities to identify the best model for a given capability.
• Experience defining AI agent instruction markdown files for using command-line interface (CLI) tools.
• Experience managing costs when implementing capabilities that leverage AI.

Benefits

This is the projected compensation range for this position. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location (For Remote Opportunities), education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories. In addition, Arcfield invests in its employees beyond just compensation. Arcfield’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, Short Term and Long-Term Disability, Retirement and Savings, Learning and Development opportunities, wellness programs as well as other optional benefit elections.

Pay

Min: $106,480.81
Max: $185,149.47

Schedule

Not specified