Senior AI Systems Engineer III (TS/SCI + Poly is required)

Aperio Global•Fort Meade, MD

37d•$176,000 - $196,000

About The Position

Aperio Global is seeking a Senior AI System Engineer to support the Technology & Tradecraft Integration mission. The Engineer will collaborate with mission stakeholders to design, integrate, and implement advanced AI-enabled solutions, ensuring scalable, secure, and mission-focused system architectures. This role requires expertise in systems engineering, cloud technologies, data pipelines, analytics, and modern AI capabilities, including Agentic AI workflows and natural language interfaces.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required
Bachelor's degree plus 9-years of relevant experience or equivalent
Proficiency with object-oriented languages (JAVA, Python, JavaScript)
Experience with Jupyter Notebooks, GHOSTMACHINE, data visualization platforms, generative AI, LLM, RAG, Neo4j, AWS (Lambda, EC2, ECS/EKS, SAGEMAKER, S3, RDS, OpenSearch)

Responsibilities

Collaborate closely with customers to design and implement AI-enabled solutions that support data-driven decision-making, operational effectiveness, and mission success.
Integrate advanced analytics, Agentic AI workflows, cloud technologies, and knowledge management capabilities to transform complex data into actionable intelligence.
Align technical architectures and system capabilities with evolving mission requirements while ensuring scalability, reliability, and user adoption.
Analyze complex problems and develop scalable AI-enabled system architectures that align with mission and business objectives.
Translate conceptual designs into detailed technical specifications while applying systems engineering principles to evaluate system-wide impacts, dependencies, and performance.
Design and implement Agentic AI workflow automations for data pipelines, research, analysis, and reporting.
Develop intuitive natural language interfaces to knowledge graphs.
Proficient in AWS cloud services, data migration to AWS-hosted databases, advanced analytics, statistical analysis, and the visualization of data science insights to support informed decision-making.