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Frontier AI Research Engineer, Lead
McLean or Washington
$129k-$292k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen HamiltonNYSE: BAH: Global firm providing management, technology, and engineering consulting services.
5+ YOE5+ years engineering experience building advanced AI systems; ability to translate research into production, lead technical teams, and deliver end-to-end AI prototypes and integrations.
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Senior Advanced AI Research Engineer
Mountain View or Albany or Arlington or Atlanta or Austin or Beaverton or Bentonville or Boston or Carmel or Charlotte or Chicago or Cincinnati or Cleveland or Columbus or Culver City or Denver or Des Moines or Detroit or Hartford or Houston or Irving or Kirkland or Miami or Milwaukee or Minneapolis or Morristown or Nashville or New York City or Oklahoma City or Overland Park or Philadelphia or Pittsburgh or Raleigh or Redmond or Sacramento or San Diego or San Francisco or Scottsdale or Seattle or St. Louis or St. Petersburg or Walnut Creek
$123k-$338k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Accenture
AccentureNYSE: ACN: Global professional services delivering 360° value.
5+ YOEBachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field; 5+ years Python or Node.js/TypeScript and AI/ML systems experience; research-to-production expertise preferred.
Python, Node.js, TypeScript, FastAPI, asyncio, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Microsoft Excel
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Frontier AI Research Engineer, Lead
McLean, Virginia, United States
$129k-$292k/yr HybridFull Time
Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen HamiltonNYSE: BAH: Global firm providing management, technology, and engineering consulting services.
5+ YOE5+ years engineering experience; bachelor's required (master/PhD preferred); proven delivery of AI prototypes to production; leadership of technical teams; experience with cloud-native AI, MLOps, and large-scale model deployment preferred.
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Senior Advanced AI Research Engineer
Mountain View or Milwaukee or Dallas or Columbus or Kirkland or Cincinnati or New York City or Cleveland or Oklahoma City or Austin or Albany or Chicago or St. Petersburg or Hartford or Pittsburgh or St. Louis or Miami or Sacramento or Raleigh or Minneapolis or Scottsdale or San Francisco or Morristown or Denver or Boston or Philadelphia or Des Moines or Overland Park or Los Angeles or Charlotte or Walnut Creek or Carmel or Seattle or Houston or Arlington or Atlanta or Redmond or Bentonville or Beaverton or Nashville or Detroit or San Diego
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Accenture
AccentureNYSE: ACN: Global professional services delivering 360° value.
5+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 5+ years with Python and/or Node.js/TypeScript, and 5+ years with AI/ML systems. Research-to-production experience preferred; Kubernetes, databases, tracing, and async Python are bonuses.
Python, Node.js, TypeScript, FastAPI, asyncio, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, CI
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AI Engineer/Scientist - Staff
Austin or Menlo Park or Reston
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Seekr Technologies
Seekr Technologies: Private American enterprise AI providing explainable, secure AI software and hardware to government and critical-infrastructure customers.
8+ YOERequires 8+ years in AI engineering or research, strong machine learning and AI systems experience, Python and software engineering skills, research-to-production ability, and collaboration skills.
Python, LIME, SHAP, vLLM, SGLang, Kubernetes, Argo CD, GitOps, CI/CD, RAG, LLMs, VLMs
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Junior Thermal Research Engineer
Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States
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Boyd
Boyd: Engineered-materials manufacturer sealing, shielding, insulating, and protecting products for medical, data-center, battery, aerospace, and robotics applications.
Master’s or PhD in mechanical engineering or related field; heat transfer, fluid dynamics, or thermal systems focus required. Laboratory and thermal-fluid research experience preferred.
Python, MATLAB, SolidWorks, CAD, P&IDs, machine learning, AI, data acquisition
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Agentic AI Engineer
Arlington or United States
$96k-$182k/yr HybridFull Time
RTX
RTXNYSE: RTX: Aerospace and defense providing advanced technology solutions.
U.S. citizenship and active/obtainable TS/SCI clearance required; experience building agentic/autonomous AI systems and production-quality Python systems; research evaluation and technical writing skills.
Python
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AI/CNO Engineer
Dulles, Virginia, United States
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REDLattice
REDLattice: U.S.-owned cyber defense technology serving military, intelligence, law-enforcement, and commercial customers.
Experience deploying and managing LLMs in offline environments, supporting cybersecurity and vulnerability research, building APIs and tooling, strong systems integration skills, active TS/SCI or ability to obtain polygraph.
Opus, Sonnet, MiniMax, Qwen
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Research Software Engineer, AI/ML
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
$110k-$130k/yr HybridFull Time
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech: Public land-grant research university serving the commonwealth.
Master's degree or equivalent experience; Linux, software or web service development, and containerization experience required. LLM, HPC, AI applications, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability experience preferred.
Linux, vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Grafana, Prometheus
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Principal Engineer, Applied AI (TS/SCI)
Virginia or Maryland or District of Columbia
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SIXGEN
SIXGEN: U.S. non-traditional defense contractor delivering mission-ready cybersecurity solutions to government and critical-infrastructure organizations.
12+ YOERequires 12+ years in software engineering, cybersecurity, applied research, or related fields; AI-enabled systems experience; architecture expertise; active TS/SCI clearance; U.S. citizenship; and a technical bachelor's degree or equivalent.
LLM, APIs, AI-assisted development environments, coding agents, retrieval
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Senior Lead AI Engineer (GenAI Platform, Agentic Infrastructure)
New York or San Francisco or McLean or Cambridge or San Jose or Plano
$209k-$286k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Capital One
Capital OneNYSE: COF: A technology-driven bank providing diverse financial services.
4+ YOEBachelor's in CS/AI/EE/CE +6 years or Master's +4 years; 6+ years programming with Python/Go/Scala/Java; experience deploying scalable AI on cloud; LLM, inference, similarity search, VectorDBs, guardrails, model evaluation, and optimization experience; leadership and research literacy.
Python, Go, Scala, Java, C++, C#, Golang, AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
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AI/ML Engineer
McLean or Virginia
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GRVTY
GRVTY: Defense technology firm delivering automated intelligence and mission support.
6+ YOEActive TS/SCI with Polygraph required; 6+–8+ years experience depending on degree; expertise in RAG, LLM integration, Python, AI/ML libraries, Postgres schema design, and REST APIs; must work onsite in McLean, VA full time.
Python, Postgres, Docker, AWS, REST API, vector databases, LLMs
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AI/ML Engineer
McLean, Virginia, United States
$180k-$250k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Finch AI
Finch AI: AI software helping government and commercial analysts extract trusted insights from massive unstructured datasets.
6+ YOEActive TS/SCI with polygraph required, 6+ years relevant experience (varies with degree), strong Python and AI/ML expertise, experience with RAG, LLM integration, REST APIs and Postgres, ability to perform independent technical research.
Python, Postgres, AWS, Docker, REST API, vector databases, LLM, RAG
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Research Associate in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
$60k-$63k/yr OnsiteFull Time, Contract
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Public research university offering undergraduate and graduate academic programs.
Ph.D. required by appointment start in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, data science, systems engineering, engineering education, or related field; depth in computational AI, experimental mechanics, or education research; strong English communication.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, mixed reality, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), digital image correlation
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Cleared AI/ML Engineer
Chantilly, Virginia, United States
$114k-$159k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Accenture Federal Services
Accenture Federal ServicesNew York Stock Exchange: ACN: Technology and management consulting for U.S. federal agencies.
US citizen with active TS/SCI clearance. Hands-on experience with Python/JavaScript/Rust, deep learning frameworks, MLOps/CI-CD toolsets, cloud deployment (AWS/Azure/GCP), and production model lifecycle.
Python, JavaScript, Rust, TensorFlow, TensorRT, PyTorch, HuggingFace, MLFlow, WandB, Airflow, Kubeflow, Gitlab CI, DVC, AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP
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Geotechnical Engineer
McLean, Virginia, United States
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Redhawk
Redhawk: Service-disabled veteran-owned IT consulting and technology solutions provider serving government agencies and Fortune 500 companies.
Master's in civil engineering with geotechnical concentration, bridge geotechnical and soil-structure interaction experience, hands-on laboratory research, publications, and strong computational and data analysis skills.
MATLAB, Python, R, Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), PLAXIS, Abaqus, FLAC, ASTM, AASHTO, OSHA
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Senior Data Scientist / AI Machine Learning Research Engineer
Sterling, Virginia, United States
$113k-$238k/yr OnsiteFull Time
CACI
CACINYSE: CACI: Provider of specialized IT and mission-critical government services.
7+ YOEMaster's in quantitative field +7 years experience, US citizen with active Top Secret/SCI clearance (polygraph), strong ML, statistics, Python/SQL, cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), Spark/Airflow, TensorFlow/PyTorch/scikit-learn, and Linux experience.
AWS, Azure, GCP, Python, SQL, Spark, Airflow, TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Linux
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Postdoctoral Research Associate – AI for Cybersecurity
Richmond, Virginia, United States
$50k-$60k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Commonwealth University: Public research university offering comprehensive academic and medical programs.
PhD in computer science, electrical/systems engineering or related; experience programming in Python; publication record in IEEE/ACM; mentoring ability; strong communication and teamwork skills.
Python
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Research Associate in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
$60k-$63k/yr OnsiteFull Time, Temporary
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Public research university offering undergraduate and graduate academic programs.
Ph.D. by appointment start in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, data science, systems engineering, engineering education, or related field; depth in computational AI, experimental mechanics, or engineering education; strong English communication.
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Mixed Reality, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Finite Element Simulation, Digital Image Correlation
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AI/ML Engineer, Mid (Clearance Required)
Reston, Virginia, United States
$133k-$208k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Noblis
Noblis: Nonprofit science, technology, and strategy organization for government missions.
3+ YOEActive TS/SCI with polygraph, degree with relevant years of experience, experience deploying ML/LLM models to production, proficiency with PyTorch, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, JavaScript, AWS, and implementing MLOps/DevOps practices.
PyTorch, Ray, Docker, FastAPI, Kubernetes, Python, JavaScript, AWS, MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker Pipelines, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Apache Spark, Dask, Azure Machine Learning, Google Vertex AI, SageMaker
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