[Remote] AI Developer/Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities and technology solutions to agencies that keep the nation healthy and safe. The company is seeking an AI Developer/Engineer to support FEMA by developing, evaluating, tuning, and operationalizing secure AI/ML capabilities across approved cloud and enterprise platforms. The role focuses on RAG applications, predictive models, AI integrations, MLOps, DevSecOps, security, governance, and technical documentation.
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
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
- Travel may be required based on client and business needs
- May be required to lift up to ten (10) pounds
- Flexible in working extended hours as needed
- Cloud, AI/ML, data-science, DevSecOps, or relevant technical certification preferred
Benefits
- This is a remote position.
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