AI Solutions Engineer – Integration & Deployment

Unissant • Herndon, VA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Unissant, Inc. is seeking an AI Solutions Engineer - Integration & Deployment to join their MissionWorks team. This role involves building AI-enabled solutions to address customer mission needs and internal operational priorities. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer capable of translating problem statements into working solutions, building integrations, AI-enabled applications, automations, and operational components. This position is crucial for moving prototypes into secure, maintainable operational capabilities, requiring the evaluation of technical options, identification of implementation risks, contribution to solution design, and work across application, data, cloud, security, and deployment layers. The role is suited for individuals comfortable building and learning in evolving requirement environments.

Requirements

• Two to five years of experience in software engineering, application development, AI engineering, data engineering, cloud engineering, automation, systems integration, or a related field.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Python is required.
• Experience with C++ is required, or the demonstrated ability to become productive in C++ quickly.
• Demonstrated experience building and deploying software applications, APIs, workflow automations, integrations, or data-enabled solutions.
• Experience working with APIs, web services, relational or NoSQL databases, structured and unstructured data, authentication, and system integration patterns.
• Practical experience or strong exposure to generative AI, large language models, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation, model APIs, workflow orchestration, intelligent-document processing, machine learning, or comparable AI-enabled application capabilities.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with source control, testing, CI/CD, containerization, logging, debugging, and technical documentation.
• Ability to evaluate an incomplete or ambiguous use case, identify key assumptions and dependencies, and propose a practical technical approach.
• Understanding of secure software-development practices, data protection, access controls, and responsible AI considerations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with resourcefulness and a bias toward action.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a security clearance is required.

Nice To Haves

• Evidence of personally building and deploying production software, prototypes, integrations, automation solutions, AI agents, or technical products is strongly preferred.
• Experience in federal, public-sector, healthcare, defense, intelligence, or another regulated environment is preferred.
• Experience interacting with customers, users, product stakeholders, or multidisciplinary delivery teams is preferred.
• Bachelor's Degree is required. Preferred field of study in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or related field of study.
• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
• Relevant technical certifications are preferred. Examples may include AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps, software-development, data, machine-learning, or AI-related certifications.
• An active DoD Top Secret clearance is desired.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain AI-enabled applications, integrations, workflow automations, and solution prototypes for MissionWorks initiatives.
• Use Python to develop, test, debug, optimize, and maintain AI-enabled software, services, APIs, integrations, and deployment components; apply C++ where required by the solution environment or performance needs.
• Translate approved mission and business use cases into technical designs, development tasks, implementation plans, and working software.
• Build integrations with enterprise applications, APIs, cloud services, data sources, knowledge repositories, and workflow tools.
• Support the movement of validated proof-of-concepts into secure, scalable, and maintainable operational capabilities.
• Participate in discovery sessions, design workshops, customer demonstrations, user testing, and technical reviews to ensure solutions address real operational needs.
• Evaluate technical tradeoffs involving functionality, user experience, system integration, data quality, performance, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Troubleshoot application, integration, data, and AI-solution issues; identify root causes; and recommend corrective actions.
• Contribute reusable code, integration patterns, technical documentation, implementation playbooks, and engineering standards for the MissionWorks portfolio.
• Collaborate with solution leaders, software engineers, data engineers, cloud teams, cybersecurity personnel, program managers, and customer stakeholders.
• Support solution estimation, technical planning, backlog refinement, sprint execution, release activities, and operational handoff.
• Provide technical guidance and peer support to other engineers as appropriate.
• Stay current on practical AI engineering, software development, cloud, integration, data, and secure deployment practices.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe.
• We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients.
• Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability.
• We continuously look for talent, excited to join that effort.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level