[Remote] AI Developer Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to agencies that keep the nation healthy and safe, and is seeking an AI Developer/Engineer to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The role develops, evaluates, tunes, and operationalizes secure AI/ML capabilities across approved cloud and enterprise platforms, including RAG applications, predictive models, integrations, and MLOps/DevSecOps practices.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and productionize RAG applications, chatbots, document translation and summarization services, predictive models, anomaly-detection capabilities, and routing/optimization solutions
- Evaluate new AI use cases and provide feasibility, architecture, cost, complexity, schedule, and solution-stack estimates
- Select appropriate algorithms; prepare and engineer data; train, validate, tune, document, and monitor models
- Define and maintain model-performance metrics, evaluation processes, monitoring, and improvement approaches
- Integrate AI/ML models with full-stack applications and enterprise workflows through APIs, approved cloud AI services, and secure data pipelines
- Implement MLOps and DevSecOps practices, including git-based workflows, automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and controlled deployments
- Support AI security boundaries, ATO artifacts, data governance, role-based access controls, and model/application risk-management activities
- Create technical documentation covering architecture, experiments, model performance, operations, and customer use
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain AI/ML designs, model performance, technical risks, and solution tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical audiences
- Ability to write clear, concise content and manage sensitive information in a highly confidential manner
- This is a remote position. Travel may be required based on client and business needs
- Mainly a routine office environment
- May be required to lift up to ten (10) pounds
- Flexible in working extended hours as needed
Skills
- Five (5) to ten (10) years of experience in AI/ML, data science, software engineering, cloud application development, or related technical disciplines
- Proficiency in Python, R, or JavaScript, with experience using machine-learning and deep-learning frameworks
- Experience with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, git-based source control, and observability tooling
- Experience analyzing complex datasets and deploying scalable, maintainable AI/ML solutions into production
- Experience with cloud-hosted AI services, secure APIs, data pipelines, and enterprise application integration
- Strong analytical, technical documentation, troubleshooting, and collaboration skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related technical field required
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain AI/ML designs, model performance, technical risks, and solution tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical audiences
- Ability to write clear, concise content and manage sensitive information in a highly confidential manner
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- Favorably adjudicated FEMA Public Trust suitability is required before the employee's start date
- Must meet DHS/FEMA training and handling requirements for SBU/FOUO and potentially CUI, PII, or other sensitive FEMA data
- Cloud, AI/ML, data-science, DevSecOps, or relevant technical certification preferred
Benefits
- This is a remote position.
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