Lead AI Engineer

Nyla Technology Solutions•Colorado Springs, CO

About The Position

We are looking for a Lead AI Engineer to join our team! In this role, you will apply your knowledge and experience to extract and convey actionable insights at NORAD and USNORTHCOM Office of the Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer (CAIO). As the Lead AI Engineer, you will design and deliver hardened data pipelines and analyses to inform ongoing operations and shape strategic roadmaps. You will serve as the cross-functional bridge between multiple engineering and client leadership teams, partnering closely with Nyla data scientists on the CAIO team to structure data science workflows and deliver high-consequence operational tools that solve critical mission challenges!

Requirements

Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, and/or TypeScript.
Experience developing SQL scripts and using Gitlab/Git for Source Code Management (SCM).
Experience in Palantir Foundry and other enterprise DoW tools (Databricks, Power Platform, GenAI.mil).
Familiar with designing apps that leverage LLMs, tailored reasoning models, and agentic workflows.
Experience engineering AI solutions with robust traceability and explainability.
Ability to design impactful data visualizations and intuitive user-facing apps that clearly communicate insights from multiple enterprise datasets and enable a seamless user experience.
Familiar with developing and maintaining data pipelines (including cross-domain) and ensuring data health and appropriate user access.
Well-versed in driving data integration of key customer and external datasets.
8+ years of experience delivering data and AI solutions for DoW (particularly at Combatant Commands) or IC customers.
Master’s Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, AI Engineering or a related field.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated history of delivering high-consequence mission-enabling tools and solving operational road blocks.
Implementing AI solutions that go beyond basic LLM chat interfaces, such as integrating custom machine learning models or augmenting existing models with new data.
Experience leading engineers on a technical delivery team, including requirements decomposition and ticket prioritization in a system such as Atlassian Jira.

Responsibilities

Design and deliver hardened data pipelines and analyses to inform ongoing operations and shape strategic roadmaps.
Serve as the cross-functional bridge between multiple engineering and client leadership teams.
Partner closely with Nyla data scientists on the CAIO team to structure data science workflows.
Deliver high-consequence operational tools that solve critical mission challenges.
Automate manual workflows and build operator-employed user-facing apps.
Engineer AI solutions with robust traceability and explainability.
Design impactful data visualizations and intuitive user-facing apps that clearly communicate insights from multiple enterprise datasets and enable a seamless user experience.
Develop and maintain data pipelines (including cross-domain) and ensuring data health and appropriate user access.
Drive data integration of key customer and external datasets.