About this opportunity
AI Engineer, U.S. Government | Washington, DC | $200k-$300k total comp
Top Secret Clearance is a must
Build AI that is deployed directly into the Pentagon, at startup pace, with one of the fastest-growing AI companies in the US.
The Company
- A fast-growing AI company, supplying the training data and pipelines the leading frontier AI labs use to post-train their models
- Entered the US Government with three contracts live and government central to its long-term strategy
- Holds a facility clearance and works on senior-level, high-visibility national security programmes
The Role
- Join a forward-deployed AI engineering team embedded with the Chief Digital and AI Office on a rapid prototyping programme
- Work directly with Pentagon departments to understand their problems and translate them into AI solutions
- Build and deploy AI agents and applications in sprints of a couple of months, from prototype to production
- Own systems end to end, from discovery and architecture through deployment, security and iteration
- Join a team of three scaling to ten or more, reporting to the Director of Research
What We’re Looking For
- Hands-on experience building AI agents, deep learning models and fine-tuned LLMs, deployed into production
- Strong Python engineering, with a track record of shipping systems that people use
- Customer-facing engineering or forward deployed experience
- Defence tech, Intelligence Community, military or US Government background
- Experience delivering applications into DoW, IC or government environments
- Active TS/SCI clearance preferred; Secret considered
- Based in, or willing to relocate to, the DC area, and able to work from the Pentagon three to four days a week
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