AI Engineer/Architect
About The Position
Own your opportunity to turn data into measurable outcomes for our customers’ most complex challenges. As an AI Engineer/Architect, you’ll see the bigger picture on mission initiatives and where your program management career can go at GDIT. MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT As an AI Engineer/Architect, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the missions that matter. You will play a crucial role in advancing the integration of automation and AI into the battlespace: ● Lead the design, architecture, and product roadmap of next-gen AI/ML and LLM solutions for customers ● Showcase solutions thru customer facing exercises, demos and pace-setting projects ● Collaborate with business development and capture teams to support bids, proposals and OTA efforts ● Bring innovation to programs by partnering with on-program teams to deliver AI/ML solutions
Requirements
- BA/BS or equivalent.
- 10+ years of related experience
- Proven experience in growing AI projects from proof of concept to production, in one or more functional areas of edge AI and sensing, autonomous systems, intelligence analysis, contested logistics and training & readiness
- Excellent consultative selling skills; proven ability to engage stakeholders, identify new opportunities, and drive outcome-based value of AI/ML or LLM solutions.
- Strong communication and leadership skills; ability to distill complex requirements into actionable deliverables and guide multidisciplinary teams.
- Willingness to travel (up to 25%) and work on-site at GDIT facilities as needed.
- Experience supporting U.S. Department of War (DOW) programs
- Experience with multi-tenant, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecture patterns
- Security clearance level: Secret clearance required to start with the ability to obtain & maintain a Top Secret
- US citizenship required
Nice To Haves
- Master of Science or PhD in related fields
- Cloud experience with AWS, Azure, etc.
- Programming experience with JAVA, RUST, Python or similar languages
- Experience with building and training classification and prediction models; leveraging large language models and agentic workflows
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, architecture, and product roadmap of next-gen AI/ML and LLM solutions for customers
- Showcase solutions thru customer facing exercises, demos and pace-setting projects
- Collaborate with business development and capture teams to support bids, proposals and OTA efforts
- Bring innovation to programs by partnering with on-program teams to deliver AI/ML solutions
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay and paid time off
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
- 10 paid holidays per year
- Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
- Short and long-term disability benefits
- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
