Lead, Artificial Intelligence 1

L3Harris Technologies • Palm Bay, FL

1d • $112,500 - $240,000

About The Position

The IMS Artificial Intelligence team is seeking a highly skilled AI/ML engineer with strong software development experience and experience in artificial intelligence and machine learning. This position is a developer role focused on building, deploying, and operationalizing AI/ML capabilities across the Segment. The ideal candidate will design, implement, optimize, and maintain production-grade AI/ML solutions that directly improve workflows, mission effectiveness, and employee experience. This role is best suited for someone who enjoys coding, experimenting, solving complex problems, and delivering real AI solutions end-to-end. Ability to obtain a US Security clearance is required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, 9+ years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree and 7+ years.
• Proven hands-on experience developing and deploying software applications including AI/ML models in production environments.
• At least 7 years of programming skills (e.g., Python, C++, Rust, Java) and proficiency with AI/ML libraries and frameworks.
• Experience with full AI lifecycle: data preparation, model development, validation, deployment, monitoring.
• Ability to translate mission or business requirements into functional AI solutions.
• Understanding of data pipelines, distributed training, optimization techniques, and deployment environments (cloud or on-prem).
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Ability to obtain a US Security clearance is required.

Nice To Haves

• Active Secret or higher security clearance.
• Experience applying AI/ML in aerospace, defense, ISR, maritime, or mission-critical environments.
• Familiarity with generative AI, LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG and Graph architectures.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI into enterprise software, workflows, or mission systems.
• Experience with MLOps tools such as MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, Sagemaker, or similar.
• Strong team player, communicator, and result-driven

Responsibilities

• Design, build, train, test, and deploy AI/ML models across domains such as computer vision, NLP, task optimization, and data analytics.
• Develop production-ready software components, APIs, microservices, and automation tools that integrate AI/ML into enterprise systems and workflows.
• Implement and support end-to-end ML pipelines, including data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Optimize models for accuracy, latency, memory footprint, and operational reliability.
• Implement data preprocessing, transformation, and quality checks to ensure consistent data flow into AI pipelines.
• Conduct model retraining, fine-tuning versioning, and performance improvement as data and mission needs evolve.
• Leverage AI frameworks, toolkits, and cloud/on-prem infrastructure to operationalize models at scale.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD + MLOps workflows for automated training, deployment, and monitoring.
• Ensure AI solutions meet reliability, performance, and security requirements.
• Work closely with software, data, security, and mission teams to integrate AI capabilities into existing applications and workflows.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical users and collaborate to refine requirements.
• Contribute to technical documentation, design artifacts, and code reviews.

Benefits

• L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays.
• The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees