Senior AI Engineer (SWE-3)

Mission Focus

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.

Job Responsibilities/Qualifications

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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus eight (8) years of relevant experience or equivalent.
• Proficiency in Python, LLM integration, and data engineering.
• Experience with static analyzers, RAG framework, and relational and vector databases.
• Familiarization with Agile, Git, Jira, and Confluence.

Desirable Skills

• Familiarization with RUST, Claude Code, Codex, and CI/CD.

Pay and Benefits

Pay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00

Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025.

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