AI Engineer

Kforce has a client that is seeking an AI Engineer in Chantilly, VA.

Responsibilities:

* AI Engineer will design, train, fine-tune, and deploy AI/ML models (LLMs, embeddings, classification models, RAG pipelines)

* Build secure, scalable APIs and services to integrate AI capabilities into business systems

* Design and implement agentic AI workflows that coordinate multiple models or services to achieve mission objectives

* Integrate retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic reasoning into production environments

* Implement and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for model development, testing, deployment, and rollback

* Design and implement containerized applications and services that can be deployed across multiple cloud environments

* As an AI Engineer, you will build portable AI pipelines with containerization to ensure future-proof deployments and migration flexibility

* Integrate security and compliance controls into all phases of development (Dev Sec Ops ), code scans, dependency management, vulnerability assessment, etc.

* Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to provision, configure, and maintain cloud resources
* B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline

* Equivalent experience may be accepted in lieu of formal education

* Active CompTIA Security+ certification

* Microsoft Certified:
Azure AI Engineer Associate, Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer, OR similar AI certification

* Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information