AI / Data Engineer

Guidehouse•San Antonio, TX

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Guidehouse is seeking an AI Engineer to support the design, development, validation, and deployment of production-grade AI-enabled applications for DoW Federal clients. This role will translate operational workflows, mission needs, and enterprise data assets into secure, scalable, and reliable AI systems. The AI Engineer will work closely with functional SMEs, architects, data scientists, product managers, and technical delivery teams to build AI-enabled applications, retrieval workflows, evaluation frameworks, and decision-support capabilities. This role is focused on delivering working systems, not research prototypes, and must support explainable, auditable, and operationally reliable AI outputs in regulated and mission-sensitive environments.

Requirements

US Citizenship Required
An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED "SECRET" Federal or DoD security clearance.
Bachelor's degree obtained or equivalent practical experience.
Experience designing, building, or deploying AI-enabled applications, analytic tools, decision-support systems, or machine learning solutions.
Strong software engineering fundamentals, including APIs, backend services, data pipelines, system integration, and production deployment practices.
Applied experience with machine learning, generative AI, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector databases, semantic search, or prompt engineering.
Experience deploying applications or analytic services in cloud or enterprise environments using CI/CD, version control, testing, and secure development practices.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting DoW, federal, national security, or large enterprise technology modernization programs.
Experience developing or deploying AI-enabled applications in secure DoW or federal cloud environments.
Experience with AI-enabled analytics, predictive modeling, forecasting, scenario analysis, workflow automation, or decision-support platforms.
Experience implementing model transparency, explainability, auditability, and traceability controls for AI-generated recommendations or analytic outputs.
Experience designing dashboards, visualizations, or user-facing applications for complex analytical workflows.
Understanding of information assurance, cybersecurity, access controls, and secure deployment considerations for DoW, federal, or enterprise environments.
Experience with Python, FastAPI, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Azure AI, AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, vector databases, containerized deployments, or related AI engineering tools.
Experience contributing reusable components, accelerators, or reference architectures for enterprise AI delivery.
Prior experience supporting demonstrations, pilots, proofs of value, testing, deployment readiness, or user acceptance activities with DoW or federal client stakeholders.
Ability to move AI solutions from concept or prototype into production-ready services.
Understanding of evaluation approaches for AI systems, including accuracy testing, grounding, validation, failure analysis, and human review workflows.
Familiarity with data quality challenges, structured and unstructured data integration, and enterprise data governance.
Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to functional SMEs, product owners, architects, and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong structured problem-solving skills and ability to design systems that are reliable, explainable, secure, and operationally usable.
Comfort operating in regulated, audit-sensitive, federal, or DoW environments.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and deploy AI-enabled applications that support real operational workflows and decision-making for DoW, federal, and enterprise environments.
Develop application logic that integrates AI models, APIs, data pipelines, user interfaces, and enterprise systems.
Implement retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, embeddings, vector databases, prompt strategies, and agent-based workflows where appropriate.
Integrate structured and unstructured enterprise data sources into AI-enabled applications.
Build orchestration workflows that connect foundation models, machine learning services, tools, APIs, and secure enterprise environments.
Develop evaluation frameworks to measure AI output quality, grounding, accuracy, traceability, and failure modes.
Implement guardrails, validation checks, fallback logic, and human-in-the-loop review points to support reliable AI behavior.
Support training, tuning, evaluation, and validation of AI or machine learning models using enterprise data while ensuring outputs remain defensible, explainable, and aligned to approved methodologies.
Develop secure APIs, backend services, dashboards, visualizations, and integration components for AI-enabled analytic tools and decision-support platforms.
Implement monitoring, logging, observability, model performance tracking, and cost controls for AI systems in operation.
Advise on model transparency, explainability, auditability, data governance, information assurance, and access controls required for secure DoW and federal deployment.
Collaborate with functional SMEs to translate business needs, mission requirements, workflow requirements, review expectations, and operational constraints into technical requirements.
Contribute reusable AI components, accelerators, reference architectures, and delivery patterns for future enterprise and federal AI implementations.
Support demonstrations, pilots, proofs of value, testing, deployment readiness, and user acceptance activities with internal and client stakeholders.

Benefits

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Basic Life & Supplemental Life
Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
Student Loan PayDown
Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
Skills Development & Certifications
Employee Referral Program
Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
Mobility Stipend