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AI Engineer (100% Remote)

TEKsystems c/o Allegis Group

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Job Requirements

Remote
Top Secret Polygraph not specified
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
$150,000 - $180,000

Job Description

Top Skills' Details
Engagement is 1 year with option to extend. Active T5/SSBI clearance required.

Required Qualifications
U.S. citizenship and active T5/SSBI federally adjudicated clearance required.
[8]+ years building applied ML/AI or data systems, with demonstrated delivery of LLM and RAG systems you personally built — not notebook demos.
Hands-on Databricks.
Document processing at scale: OCR, layout-aware parsing, chunking tradeoffs, poor-quality source handling.
Local/self-hosted LLM serving — vLLM, TGI, Ollama, llama.cpp, or equivalent — including running open-weight models in an isolated or air-gapped environment without reliance on external API endpoints.
Structured extraction and grounded generation with source attribution.
LLM evaluation methodology — you can explain how you measured correctness and what the evaluation missed.
Privacy-preserving synthetic data generation from CUI, PII, or comparably restricted source data, with an understanding of re-identification risk.
Strong Python.
Government or defense contracting experience.

Job Description
Engagement is 1 year with option to extend. Active T5/SSBI clearance required.


Work is hands-on, scoped to a near-term product demonstration, and built to migrate — documented, portable, and transferred to the internal team.

Responsibilities
Build RAG and document-processing pipelines on the Databricks lakehouse — ingestion, OCR of mixed-quality sources, chunking, embedding, and retrieval.
Build LLM workflows for summarization, structured extraction, and evidence-grounded generation with source attribution.
Generate synthetic document corpora with the fidelity and quality variation needed for meaningful results.
Stand up the evaluation harness — retrieval quality, groundedness and hallucination checks, structured-output validity, human-in-the-loop review. Report results in numbers.
Package deliverables as jobs and Asset Bundles, tracked in MLflow, and document everything the internal team needs to own the work.


Preferred Qualifications
RAG built inside a government or FedRAMP-authorized environment (Azure OpenAI in GCC High, AWS GovCloud, Bedrock within an authorized boundary).
Direct experience with FedRAMP Moderate, NIST 800-171, CMMC L2, or CUI handling.
Databricks Vector Search, Mosaic AI Agent Framework and Agent Evaluation, Asset Bundles, MLflow.
Unity Catalog governance.
H2O (h2oGPTe, Driverless AI).

Soft Skills
Self-directed execution against a fixed milestone with minimal oversight.
Honest reporting of model behavior — comfortable saying what an evaluation does and does not establish.
Collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.
Clear documentation and active knowledge transfer.

Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
100% remote
Engagement is 1 year with option to extend. Active T5/SSBI clearance required.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms.  If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

· This position requires an active DoD Clearance (Secret, Top Secret, Top Secret/SCI) or the ability to be obtain an (Interim Secret, Interim Top Secret)
· Because an active or interim DoD clearance is required, U.S. Citizenship is required
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About Us
We’re partners in transformation. We help customers activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That’s the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

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Job Category
IT - Software
Clearance Level
Top Secret