AI Specialist

Leonardo DRS, Inc.•Richland Township, MD

7d•$105,000 - $185,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The AI Specialist leads Naval Electronics artificial intelligence initiatives within Operational Excellence. The role defines a practical AI roadmap, develops agents, reusable skills, prompts, and supporting workflows, and delivers capabilities that address business needs across a low-volume, high-mix, project-oriented environment. The position coordinates business and technical stakeholders and helps establish controlled processes for designing, evaluating, approving, releasing, and improving AI tools. It supports responsible adoption by documenting limitations, maintaining appropriate human oversight, and aligning solutions with applicable company requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field.
Minimum of five years of experience.
Training and practical experience developing, evaluating, and deploying AI-enabled tools, including agents and prompt-based workflows.
Ability to translate business problems into requirements, prototypes, test plans, documentation, and supportable releases.
Working knowledge of AI limitations, data handling, access controls, human review, and risk-based governance in an enterprise setting.
Strong cross-functional communication, stakeholder coordination, and process-improvement skills.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of defense electronics manufacturing and its engineering, supply chain, quality, or program-management workflows.
Experience in low-volume, high-mix, project-oriented operating environments.
Experience with enterprise AI platforms, workflow automation, and measurement of operational outcomes.

Responsibilities

Lead the Naval Electronics AI initiative portfolio and translate business needs into a prioritized roadmap of practical, measurable use cases.
Design, develop, test, and maintain AI agents, reusable skills, prompts, and supporting workflows for authorized business-unit use.
Establish documented intake, design, evaluation, approval, release, change-control, and retirement processes for AI tools in collaboration with responsible functions.
Coordinate with business leaders, program teams, engineering, operations, supply chain, IT, cybersecurity, legal, and other stakeholders to define requirements and adoption plans.
Assess candidate solutions for data suitability, output quality, reliability, security, human oversight, and operational fit before release.
Define evaluation criteria and acceptance tests, document limitations, and monitor released capabilities for performance, drift, and user feedback.
Apply applicable company policies and approved controls governing sensitive information, access, records, and AI system use; escalate unresolved issues to appropriate owners.
Create user guidance, training materials, and prompt and skill standards that promote safe, consistent, and effective use.
Partner with process owners to integrate AI capabilities into low-volume, high-mix, project-oriented workflows while preserving decision ownership and traceability.
Communicate initiative status, risks, benefits, and adoption measures to the Director of Operational Excellence and relevant stakeholders.
Improve the AI delivery lifecycle through lessons learned, reusable components, and controlled experimentation with emerging tools.