Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer

Interactive Process Technology LLC•Huntsville, AL

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About The Position

IPT Associates (IPTA) is seeking a hands-on AI engineering professional to provide technical support for the design, evaluation, and advancement of AI-enabled applications, tools, and workflows. The role involves applying modern AI systems—including large language models, agentic workflows, orchestration frameworks, and supporting software infrastructure—to develop practical solutions. The ideal candidate is curious about the rapidly changing AI ecosystem, willing to explore frameworks and prototype ideas, and committed to continuously learning emerging techniques. The position supports teams developing or assessing AI-enabled tools and applications, advises on technical approaches and architecture, and helps evaluate solutions for operational relevance and suitability in government mission use cases. The engineer collaborates with platform engineers, product leads, mission users, and government leadership, and contributes technical guidance, prototypes, recommendations, briefings, and test-and-evaluation activities. The position is based at Redstone Arsenal/Huntsville, Alabama, and requires an active security clearance.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related field.
10 years of Enterprise IT experience.
Experience designing, building, integrating, or evaluating AI/ML-enabled applications or software tools.
Familiarity with LLM-based applications, RAG, prompt engineering, agentic systems, and AI-assisted workflows.
Experience with software development fundamentals, APIs, data handling, and system integration.
Ability to assess technical tradeoffs and communicate them clearly to engineers and government stakeholders.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Active security clearance required.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, model APIs, evaluation frameworks, and agent testing harnesses.
Exposure to model hosting, inference pipelines, or cloud-based AI development environments.
Understanding of secure AI development practices, data protection, and operational constraints in government settings.
Experience supporting defense, cyber, intelligence, or mission application development.
Familiarity with human-in-the-loop workflows, AI assurance, and evaluation methodologies.
Working knowledge of agentic or orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI, Haystack, LlamaIndex, or similar ecosystems.
Experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages commonly used in AI application development.

Responsibilities

Provide support to teams developing or assessing AI-enabled applications and tools.
Advise on technical approaches for AI application design, prototyping, integration, and evaluation.
Assess solutions involving LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, agentic workflows, orchestration layers, prompt pipelines, and evaluation harnesses.
Support reviews of architectures, development approaches, model usage patterns, and technical risk areas.
Advise on AI engineering considerations such as latency, reliability, observability, testability, guardrails, data flow, and system integration.
Evaluate and compare modern AI frameworks, agentic libraries, and experimentation harnesses for suitability in mission use cases.
Assist with developing technical guidance, prototypes, engineering recommendations, and briefings for government stakeholders.
Support testing and evaluation of AI tools, including performance assessment, qualitative review, and workflow validation.
Collaborate with platform engineers, product leads, mission users, and government leadership to keep AI efforts technically grounded and operationally relevant.
Stay current on changes in the AI ecosystem and provide informed recommendations on emerging tools and practices.